At the end of the day, if as has been asserted in numerous emails, the goatse.cx web site was an Internet icon which represented the theory that net citizens had rights and freedoms which they may not have in society generally, then the suspension of goatse.cx represents the natural evolution of that society, cyber or otherwise, in that an abuse of rights and freedoms (outside of the purpose for which that society has mutually agreed to provide those rights and freedoms) can generally be expected to be met with attempts to place reasonable limits on those rights and freedoms by the organisation responsible for providing them in the first place.

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For additional credit: Why did the creators of this (Not Safe For Work Or Most Homes) website feel obliged to pixellate the young lady in question's genitalia, given that she is, in point of fact, projectile defecating into her own face?