I'd prefer zero regulation and zero cencorship, but with fair and reasonable warnings to protect folks with fragile feelings ...
This might be a bit idealistic (and note that as a new Forum member I haven't yet seen any previous dialogue on this theme), but ...
Imagine you're walking through a shopping mall. If you're in a part of the mall that is known to offer 'arty' or 'challenging' or 'liberated' products then you shouldn't be surprised to see a billboard on the pavement in front of you offering a chance to see some 'new and original' artistic work.
If you *never* wished to view such free-thinking and liberated material then you'd probably aim never to visit those parts of the mall.
But if you happened accidentally to wander through that part of the mall, then your second-level of protection could be simply to note-and-ignore the pavement bill-board invitation to 'enter here to have your mind expanded'. You can choose just to walk on by...
Or, if somehow you happened to step inside the 'artistic' venue by accident, you'd see further warning notices explaining that the "material herein is aimed at free-thinking and at-ease-with-life folks [and] you venture further entirely at your own risk [and] Please leave now if you are not comfortable ...".
Then - given all those protective layers, allow me(us) please to present my work to the world, showing whatever subject matter I want, to my own standards, reflecting my own tastes, in my own style and in whatever-the-heck manner *I* choose, and please don't complain if you've stepped across all of my warning thresholds to get here ...
If we can build our web sites with equivalent layers of warnings for the benefit of some folks' genuine but fragile sensibilities, or possibly wreckless mouse-click navigation, and (of course) with appropriate
SafeSurf and
ICRA labelling, then ... I think we should be free to indulge ourselves and to share our work in complete freedom!!
But ... I doubt we'll reach this level of enlightenment for another generation or two...
Colin