[betterunix]

The problem is that your children will now grow up thinking that a great firewall is something that those in positions authority normally maintain. How are you going to explain to these children that the Chinese firewall is bad? Would such children have protested SOPA or PIPA?

So really, the question here is not, "Should we protect children?" but rather, "What should we teach children about freedom of speech?"

[DanBC]

This is in the context of the uk where we don't have freedom of speech.

It's a useful discussion, but this filter doesn't. Hange the need for it. It does provide some nice examples of why filtering is problematic.