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As long as people have a choice, I have no beef with such self-censoring products... However, there is a dark side to any invention.
What may begin innocently enough can evolve into something truly dangerous to freedom of speech and expression.
<Tin Foil Hat>
It will happen like this: More and more self-censoring devices will enter the market. Eventually people will become so accustomed to them, that censor chips will be a given in any product.
The next step would be to introduce a more avanced version of the self-censoring DVD - one where you cannot control what is censored. It will censor things by itself, so that a truly caring parent will not have to worry about messing with complicated controls.
More and more of these automatically-censoring devices will enter consumers' hands - they will be more affordable, and have special online features not available in "dirty" devices. Soon it will be impossible to get a hold of one that lets you view media the way it was meant to be viewed - but of course by then the media itself will have adapted, and censored out everything that can be censored before it even reaches your DVD!
</Tin Foil Hat>
Whew.
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