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  1. Re:Scary by gabebear · · Score: 1 · on BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits A Day
    http://thinkofthechildren.co.uk/ is blocked for me

    hmm, well, http://thinkofthechildren.co.uk/ works for me (ETSU Johnson City, TN) can you British folk behind the firewall get to it?

    Think of the Children

  2. very chris morris by Random_Goblin · · Score: 1 · on BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits A Day
    From my unblocked view of http://thinkofthechildren.co.uk/
    What do we want? We want the law changed to make it illegal to murder children and bury them in woodland. We want it to be made illegal for adults to work with children. We want an end to the ridiculous process of 'criminal trials' for suspected child killers.


    I wouldn't be at all suprised if it's blocked, some people have a very dim view of satire.
  3. Re: Slow news day? by byolinux · · Score: 1 · on US Govt Makes Times New Roman 14 Official Font

    http://www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk/ indeed.

  4. Re:not funny at all. by andyt · · Score: 1 · on The Joystick Is The Root of All Evil

    Well, humour is a very subjective thing. Some people thought Scary Movie was funny, so there is no accounting for taste. (OT : There is a Scary Movie 3 coming out? good god....)

    I'm having trouble explaining exactly why I find it so funny - I agree that there isn't much in the way of actual gags on the site.

    I guess it is more of a "meta-joke" than anything funny on the site itself. Perhaps something to do with how difficult it is to be so carefully and correctly wrong. The author has accurately skewered the mentality of the self-proclaimed "expert" who has just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

    'Course it could just be me having an odd sense of humour... :-)

    BTW for another example of an anti-site parody, try Think of the Children. Slightly more obviously fake, but still legit enough to get pulled by the ISP and get a mention in the UK Press!

  5. Re:so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Kid-Safe Domain Created
    Not all parents want their 8 yr. olds to stumble across porn on the web.

    That's my point! Why the hell not?

    Now there speaks someone who really hasn't thought through what it means to have kids...

    One day, your enlightened eight-year-old will be in a class at school where the teacher will start showing them the 'net, assuming it still exists then. The teacher will ask the kids what they know about "the Internet". Someone, it doesn't matter who, will mention sex, and your precocious brat will promptly pipe up that s/he's seen all that on the Web at home. Heck, if she's anything like me at that age, she'll probably be able to remember the URLs.

    Next thing you know, you'll be up to your ears in police and social workers, and your kids will be taken away from you for their own protection.

    Take your self-righteous attention off the kids for a moment - haven't you noticed
    what is happening to parents?
  6. Obligitory "think of the children" link by Inda · · Score: 3, Funny · on Senate Approves Censored .kids.us Domain

    www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk

  7. Re:What should EU high-tech advocates do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Worst Coders In Washington

    Actually, 'doing nothing' is extremely hard in politics.

    If you're in .uk (as I guess from your examples), you may remember, e.g., the Dangerous Dogs Act? The increasingly draconian restrictions on firearm licensing? The positively Orwellian 'Prevention of Terrorism' acts, the Kafkaesque treatment of 'paedophiles' the Computer Misuse Act? The intellectually bankrupt argument for road pricing? The murderous wars our present government conducted against Yugoslavia and Afghanistan?

    Whenever some 'newspapers' publish a big enough story about - well, pretty much anything really - democratic politicians feel an overwhelming urge to be seen to be 'doing something'. What that 'something' is, and whether it will do any good or vastly greater harm, is not important. All that matters is that 'I'm against this Bad Thing, and anyone who opposes me is clearly for it!'

  8. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on KDE 3.1 Second Beta Released

    Tee hee!

  9. Lots of people are thinking of the children... by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Offtopic · on What The Net is Doing to You

    www.thinkofthechildren.co.uk


    Sure, it's off topic, but I have karma to burn.