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it is said the loss of chatrooms must be a good thing to protect the children.

Suppose we have a sequence like this:

Children swap text messages with each other, so abusers will try and get what they want by sending text messages. Right lets ban all text messaging, purely to protect children from these scum, you can not argue with that.

abusers use e-mail - E-mail banned

abusers hang about in parks - Parks closed to prevent these people attacking children. Only a abusers will argue against that.

abusers use the internet to download kiddie porn. In order to protect the children the internet is to be outlawed

The total abolishion of the internet must be a good thing, if it prevents one child being abused.

"Oh dear we have lost an avenue for freedom speech" some one says.

They must have something to hide as the loss of an avenue of freedom of speech is a small price to pay to protect the children.

How can you argue against stopping the abusers molesting the children?

And so it goes on

[i]Little by little the spectre of totalitarian dictatorship creeps upon us all[i]