The final frontier isn’t a new country to be discovered; its not the ocean depths, nor the heights of the sky, and it is not, despite what people tell you, the vastness of space. No, the final frontier is the Internet my friend, its the virtual space we can create, destroy, use to enlighten and enrich or to bias and deprive. It is truly… the last bastion of human hope that freedom will prevail (for now). In all the venues of our existence one thing remains true: When a judgment is made about any information, excepting its usage by human beings of course, mostly only ignorance can only follow.

Here’s someone who wants to give the bad guys the final frontier. How? By making various terms and their study a special, rare, or otherwise protected thing. This has always led to the formation of counter-cultural structures (because people won’t accept your judging them or discounting their contribution to society). Maybe you missed the war on drugs? Its a misleading campaign which has prescribed the creation of hundreds of drug-related counter cultures which only help to allow the war on it to persist. This notion of censoring what you fear being studied is very much the act of the Ostrich, sticking his head in ground.

“I do intend to carry out a clear exploring exercise with the private sector … on how it is possible to use technology to prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism,” Frattini told Reuters.

It stands to reason, that once you censor, you empower those to which you cannot silence.