Keeping The Internet Filthy

EVERYBODY WHO USES IT knows what a pile of garbage the internet is. Half of it is pornography. Then, there's the terrorist recruitment websites, and the right wing white supremacist Christian racist hate groups, not to mention the republican party and the Tea Party (just kidding). The list goes on, and on. The dirty little secret is, the internet need not be filled with filth. That it is is attributable to one reason, and one reason alone, the usual reason: you guessed it: money. You hear blather about free speech and the need to avoid censorship and government control, and all that, but that's just a bunch of blather. Nobody cares about that. Its money that matters, on the internet and everywhere else among humankind. If the owners of the internet, the same billionaires who own everything else in the world and probably in the solar system, wanted to eliminate the filth, they would. All internet corporations have what they call "Terms of Service" which pretend to eliminate filth, and covers their oligarchial corporate legally liable ass quite nicely, but does nothing of value. In fact, these terms of service are never enforced, or only occasionally, for show. Meanwhile, our billionaire leaders-masters, people like Mark Zuckerburg and Bill Gates, claim piously that they are shocked and offended by all the filth online, and insist that if there were anything, anything at all, that they could do to help, they of course would. That, of course, is pure excrement. The truth is, we all want the filth to remain, including and particularly those among us who are billionaires largely because of it, so it remains. Child pornography crosses the line. Thank god we humans, at long last, have some standards, if only minimal. People got tired of child porn, so a campaign was launched to eliminate it, which has had some success. Everything with electronic-digital content has its own unique signature, identifiable, traceable, reproducible. Just develop the software to identify whatever kind of filth you want to eliminate, like child porn, and the filth can be deleted. The problem is, what is filth, and who decides? One man's filth is another man's art. A slippery slope of incrementalism could lead to an Orwellian nightmare in which everything on the internet is erased, and the internet is no more, because all human online activity is filth, according to some petty authority. So, don't panic. You will not lose access to your favorite right wing hate group, and beautiful naked women will always be available for downloading. That's the way we want it, and, even with all the really horrible stuff we must suffer, maybe that's the best way to keep it.