We feel strongly that how you communicate should be kept separate from what you communicate, allowing the free technical development that has created the communications networks we enjoy. This is a view supported by EU rules on mere conduit which clearly separate the technical issues from moral and legal implications of what happens to be communicated. Without such a framework we would not have the Internet at all.
We feel strongly that free speech is an essential tool to help ensure a fair and open government. Censorship of any sort is the thin end of the wedge and must not be taken lightly. Once started, censorship is very easy to extend one step at a time until, perhaps, wrong thinking is banned.
Filtering rarely, if ever, achieves its stated goals - blocking web sites does not stop people communicating, and rarely even stops access to the actual web sites themselves. Most filtering creates a false sense of security, adds technical complexity, and causes problems with over blocking. In many cases it is not true that "something is better than nothing".