Agreed. This is just a gradual move towards wholesale censorship of the net.
People would go mad if they just did it straight away, so they're going for the low hanging fruit first. Porn, won't somebody think of the children etc. Eventually we'll be down to a white-listed internet of government approved sites. By that time though it will be too late.
Agreed. This is just a gradual move towards wholesale censorship of the net.
People would go mad if they just did it straight away, so they're going for the low hanging fruit first. Porn, won't somebody think of the children etc. Eventually we'll be down to a white-listed internet of government approved sites. By that time though it will be too late.
Well we can console ourselves with the thought that the same people who think this is possible are the same intellectual geniuses who will be in control of implementing it.
Look for instance at how marvelously effective their ban on torrent and streaming sites has been.
(cough - google torrent unblocked - cough)
Agreed. This is just a gradual move towards wholesale censorship of the net.
People would go mad if they just did it straight away, so they're going for the low hanging fruit first. Porn, won't somebody think of the children etc. Eventually we'll be down to a white-listed internet of government approved sites. By that time though it will be too late.
As I mentioned earlier, keeping a wall between freedom and your ideology has repeatedly failed in history and is the sign of a person who cannot stand by their ideas. How Cameron can implement a blacklist, potentially whitelist down the line, of websites he doesn't like or approve of without people circumventing his blocks is at best showing a complete lack of knowledge of how the Internet works and how people behave.
The people who have advocated for the removal of violent video games from sale to keep it away from children have both been at odds with scientific findings and have failed. The same thing will happen with nudity and pornography - as long as people know there is a way to freedom, people will seize the opportunity and the social conservative neo-puritans will both be humbled by the scientific community and the public.
Agreed. This is just a gradual move towards wholesale censorship of the net.
People would go mad if they just did it straight away, so they're going for the low hanging fruit first. Porn, won't somebody think of the children etc. Eventually we'll be down to a white-listed internet of government approved sites. By that time though it will be too late.
If you go straight to your aim that would cause uproar...well...it would cause uproar. If you take little steps so that the public don't really click on about what's happening, you'll get what you want eventually. As you say, he's being sly/clever about it. I really want the internet to stay free of censorship. I don't want the government to be censoring things willy-nilly if that's what their eventual aim is. The reason the internet is fantastic is because it's not censored. I hope people start kicking up a fuss if this eventually happens.
If you go straight to your aim that would cause uproar...well...it would cause uproar. If you take little steps so that the public don't really click on about what's happening, you'll get what you want eventually. As you say, he's being sly/clever about it. I really want the internet to stay free of censorship. I don't want the government to be censoring things willy-nilly if that's what their eventual aim is. The reason the internet is fantastic is because it's not censored. I hope people start kicking up a fuss if this eventually happens.
Indeed.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is another one of their 'oh that's not as bad as they said', things, despite another change being made.
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Agreed. This is just a gradual move towards wholesale censorship of the net.
People would go mad if they just did it straight away, so they're going for the low hanging fruit first. Porn, won't somebody think of the children etc. Eventually we'll be down to a white-listed internet of government approved sites. By that time though it will be too late.
probably civil servants idea passed to to the PM
Well we can console ourselves with the thought that the same people who think this is possible are the same intellectual geniuses who will be in control of implementing it.
Look for instance at how marvelously effective their ban on torrent and streaming sites has been.
(cough - google torrent unblocked - cough)
No way should anyone be giving them credit card details.. especially with some of them being hosted in the Ukraine.
The people who have advocated for the removal of violent video games from sale to keep it away from children have both been at odds with scientific findings and have failed. The same thing will happen with nudity and pornography - as long as people know there is a way to freedom, people will seize the opportunity and the social conservative neo-puritans will both be humbled by the scientific community and the public.
If you go straight to your aim that would cause uproar...well...it would cause uproar. If you take little steps so that the public don't really click on about what's happening, you'll get what you want eventually. As you say, he's being sly/clever about it. I really want the internet to stay free of censorship. I don't want the government to be censoring things willy-nilly if that's what their eventual aim is. The reason the internet is fantastic is because it's not censored. I hope people start kicking up a fuss if this eventually happens.
Indeed.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is another one of their 'oh that's not as bad as they said', things, despite another change being made.