So I went and saw this flick last night.  It was pretty good.  It’s also a pretty good commentary about what the Internet is.  For everything good the Internet provides us, there are just as many nefarious people doing their own perverse things on the web.  Either way, while I respect Law Enforcement to go after the child predators (and encourage them as well), I don’t necessarily think any restrictions should be placed on the net as a whole. 

I wouldn’t agree with several countries coming together to restrict the net.  I also vehemently disagree with nations such as China restricting access to the web to their citizens.  Accessing information and being able to voice an opinion are fundamental human rights that all humans should have.

I think it would be a worthwhile goal for a country such as the United States to pressure nations like China into allowing their citizens free access on the web.  These people should be allowed to speak out against their communist government whether or not the government wants for it to happen.

I just saw this last night, and I have to admit, this movie is the height of what America is all about: obscene levels of violence (lets just keep sex out of the public eye, it’s bad, mmkay?).  The movie was entertaining, and I laughed about how over-the-top it was, but one thing does concern me.  This is one of the first times I can recall seeing kids killed on screen en masse.  300 had that one scene where Leonidas beat the tar out of the other kid, but that is kids vs kids, guys running around blowing them away with a machine gun is a shade different.

Overall, it was a good movie, but that one thing could have been left out and still shown an obscene amount of violence to prove the point that genocide is bad.