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Listed below are comments made by Alan_McCright between Wednesday, 31st December 2008 and Sunday, 11th January 2009.

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Dear Andy, can we talk? 8:47pm on 11 Jan 2009 Mr. petokyo

While it is true than many adminsitrative regions in Japan require the separation of sexes in public baths, this is not the case everywhere in Japan, especially at the outlying hot spring resorts--the island of Miyajima, for example.
Dear Andy, can we talk? 00:05am on 31 Dec 2008 Censorship or bowdlerization of any kind is unacceptable.

Coming from the nation that gave the world "The Benny Hill Show" this announcement is rather surprising.

Who decides what is good, bad or indifferent? Politicians up for re-election? Priests? Imams? Rabbis? Evangelists? Psychologists? Scientologists? Benny Hill?

Should such a plan come to fruition, will websites eventually be rated for their religious content so christian or jewish-oriented webpages may be filtered out by muslim parents or governments? Will Baptist parents be able to deny their children knowledge about other religious points of view?

Nudity? The Japanese children seem to grow up quite psychologically sound even though many frequent communal baths.

How is mind-control of any sort "in the public interest?"

Free societies are free of censorship. Controlled societies--such as theocracies--are not.

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