Online censorship is totalitarian quashing of freedom of speech, now a common practice in Australia.

For too long the holy rollers decided what you could see and what you could think!

I believe in the freedom of speech and robust debate. Robust debate proceeded all human progress. And will continue to do so!

One debate that cannot be censored or routinely ignored by tin-eared pollies is the debate on energy and the role of essential nuclear power in our future energy provision going forward, i.e. MSR thorium!
Alan B.

If anyone wants to ridicule, disagree or criticise my religious, political, social or any other opinions or beliefs they should be free to so do so. I don't need protection from them. Justice Holmes of the US Supreme Court maintained that one should not have the right to yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre. That's a reasonable limitation to speech. Only speech which presents a clear and present danger should be limited. Thomas Jefferson maintained that error should stand free as a monument to truth. Overuse of the words, fantastic and awesome, are offensive to me, but I'll just have to bear it.

Remember the ditty, "Sticks & stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me".

About time we started teaching it to all the petals we have grown in our society.

There are only two types of creatures in the internet, all identical, so which of them is more dangerous and ought be removed - the 0's or the 1's?

Dear Yuyutsu,

You may find the following of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code

"The modern binary number system, the basis for binary code, was invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1689 and appears in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire. The full title is translated into English as the "Explanation of the binary arithmetic", which uses only the characters 1 and 0, with some remarks on its usefulness, and on the light it throws on the ancient Chinese figures of Fu Xi.[1] Leibniz's system uses 0 and 1, like the modern binary numeral system. Leibniz encountered the I Ching through French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet and noted with fascination how its hexagrams correspond to the binary numbers from 0 to 111111, and concluded that this mapping was evidence of major Chinese accomplishments in the sort of philosophical visual binary mathematics he admired.[2][3] Leibniz saw the hexagrams as an affirmation of the universality of his own religious belief.[3]

Binary numerals were central to Leibniz's theology. He believed that binary numbers were symbolic of the Christian idea of creatio ex nihilo or creation out of nothing.[4] Leibniz was trying to find a system that converts logic verbal statements into a pure mathematical one[citation needed]. After his ideas were ignored, he came across a classic Chinese text called I Ching or ‘Book of Changes’, which used 64 hexagrams of six-bit visual binary code. The book had confirmed his theory that life could be simplified or reduced down to a series of straightforward propositions. He created a system consisting of rows of zeros and ones. During this time period, Leibniz had not yet found a use for this system.[5]

Binary systems predating Leibniz also existed in the ancient world. The aforementioned I Ching that Leibniz encountered dates from the 9th century BC in China.[6] The binary system of the I Ching, a text for divination, is based on the duality of yin and yang.[7] Slit drums with binary tones are used to encode messages across Africa and Asia.[7] The Indian scholar Pingala (around 5th–2nd centuries BC) developed a binary system for describing prosody in his Chandashutram.[8][9"