As if we didn't have enough censorship under apartheid: :hatred:
www.screenafrica.com/page/news/business/1648292-South-Africa-approaches-online-content-censorship#.VIg4bMmUR7 (http://www.screenafrica.com/page/news/business/1648292-South-Africa-approaches-online-content-censorship#.VIg4bMmUR7)
No, no and again, no. :thumbdown: :thumbdown:
Egads. I only wonder how long it will be before some 85 year old American politician who's never used the internet thinks it would be a good idea for us to do the same thing.
Quote from: Jack on December 10, 2014, 07:47:37 AM
Egads. I only wonder how long it will be before some 85 year old American politician who's never used the internet thinks it would be a good idea for us to do the same thing.
Don't give them ideas, BrotherJ :wink:
Seriously if we are going to go back to the days where books like
Black Beauty and awful things like television (!!!) were banned, then count me out. :tongueout: :thumbdown:
Motherf**ker! Not this crap!
Censoring the internet will never work! Why do these stupid bastards keep trying?!
:hatred:
In the UK the ISPs tend to just do as little as possible to show that they are doing *something*. British Telecom for example have recently moved some "Error site blocked" messages to this crap (http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/). Which of course you can bypass in about 1 second. I feel you on that "some 85 year old American politician who's never used the internet" statement, I always fear of legislation being pushed through like that.. basically without going off on too much of a technical rant here, things like the onion network are unblockable (aka the basic idea of it is that the server can't see who the client is, and vice versa).. and even the normal internet is surfable anonymously if you know what you are doing.. you can make certain websites immune to that, but it's difficult without compromising user friendlyness. To everyone with kids: proxy your network, and educate yourself generlaly.. it's your responsibility to censor the internet, not a government somewhere. I'm sure some of this will be tackled too late in the mainstream media "oh no the terrorists are using tor!" or something of that ilk a few years down the line is my best guess. Freedom of speech & intellectual property always bring up some interesting philosophical problems. If you build the networks in order for privacy, you obviously will get things you personally find immoral (such as child pornography).. and guess what you might not necessarily be able to take that down, at least definitely not within a short time frame. I think too many people see something and get offended instead of looking at the bigger picture here, more general education on the internet is needed big time. If anyone wants to have a good laugh look at the wikileaks data on banned search terms in China (Baidu).