IMO been a long time coming now. The general rule is that no country stays free forever, and eventually something will happen that takes away the majority of freedoms. In the beginning a fledgling country must forge it's own freedoms, and after a while those will erode, as people will be more forgiving if they think they are sacrificing freedoms for security. However, as a wise man once said "Those who sacrifice Freedom for Security shall have neither". It's a truth that can be seen as clear as day, and if we continue to give up freedoms we will be pushed into a corner where we are told what to eat, when to sleep, when to work, how to raise our children, and what literature is proper to read. Censorship has been and always will be an innocent looking tick that simply grows as it feeds on the people it's "protecting". Why censor sex, curse words, and many other things when we get to see dead bodies, and hear of rape and pedophilia, drugs, abuse, and murder all over the news? Censorship is meaningless, IMO. The only real censorship would be to live alone in a cave, blind, deaf, mute, and with a complete lack of any feelings for or against anything whatsoever. Rather than outright blocking something, educate the people in question that you are "protecting". This is not to support anarchy, to the contrary, laws and things in which we know in our heart to be wrong and right are to be kept, seeing as how said laws have been around since the beginning of civilization.
Sorry to sound like a tinfoil hat crazy person, but I just feel that it's the truth. Loss of freedom (any freedom) conflicts with those of the opposing party (which is usually the majority), and as we all know people only allow themselves to be pushed around for so long before they get angry enough to do something. V for Vendetta is probably a soon to be history lesson, rather than a work of fiction.
TL;DR
The government is our big brother, but big brother has millions of little brothers and sisters that own guns, and would be willing to use them, lest they forget why their country was founded.
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