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New Zealand Looks at Internet Censorship
David writes "The New Zealand Government 'Select Committee', upon reviewing censorship law, has issued a report which among other things, recommends that ISPs face compulsory licensing "in order to control their behaviour", the forcing of a code of conduct upon ISPs, and recommends the implementation of an internet filtration programme not dissimilar from that of Australia's (although it is hazy on the details of what this would mean). They're starting to become really worried about the dangers of the internet."
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Hell what is the world coming to! As a fellow sheepfucker I sat here laughing at our kangaroo rooting aussies as there government inforces laws like this on there people - now this really pisses me off!
I have no qualms whatsoever with censorship. In my opinion, most of the Internet is great and I'm fine with probably 98% of the content.
However, sites like Tubgirl and GoatSex serve no purpose and only have negative connotations on the world.
Sites like the two above should be censored from the Internet, as well as hardcore porn sites and sites that promote child endangerment, software piracy, and violence.
If you are in favor of sites that expose children in erotic sex acts or that promote killing people, you are the one with the problem, not me.
Background: 28/M/Bi-Sexual; Owner of a Linux company; MBA Harvard 2003; B.S. Comp Sci MIT 2000
yeah i really did get FP this time! heh and i'm an elite sheepfucker too! All you americans can suck my twinky! bahhahhaaahhh
The first question this brings to mind is 'where is Old Zealand?'
/. before. Would they be liable if a single thing got through?
;).
I don't actually know much at all about their country, but I know it's a fairly well developed nation where people and sheep can live harmoniously. Is this sort of censorship common? The way the language in the paper refers to censorship (pg. 7) makes it look like censorship is accepted as a part of the government's job.
If that is in fact the case, how could this sort of thing work? Would ISPs be responsible for harvesting the URLs of all webpages with content offensive to the New Zealandic(New Zealish? Zealic? Zealaly?) government? That would be horrendously time consuming and expensive, and would be a constant chore. And we've talked about the consequences of blocking IPs on
I dunno guys. This sounds like a law without any teeth. If it's actually enforced, it seems to me (in all my ignorance) that it would result in NZish/ic/ian ISPs being unable to function. And even if it worked, it would take like three days before someone put out a program that simply went around the filtering. I mean, have your buddy in Seattle set up a webpage with a Java web-browser imbedded. Log into that site and ouila (wah-lah), you're knee-deep in scatological goat-rape porn. And I'm sure there's a way to set something like that up so that it would be very difficult to filter.
Okay, my ramble is done. I had to write a long time because I didn't want to be modded -1 for early posting
~SL
Fuck da police and da 502.
BLING BLING, biznitches, I gots da skills to make da Benjamin, and da Benjamin's pay da bills.
Can I get a WHAT WHAT? W3rd up, homechicken.
Censorship fucking sux! I live in America, supposabley the land of freedom, but I can't even look up the anarchist cookbook without the Black Helicopters decending on my house and stealing me away into the night (okay, maybe not, but you get the point). It's illegal for me to post information that may help you break past Copyright laws OOPS, just did. Now I'm introuble.
/. modderators can't handle the truth!
Then there is this whole "Homeland Security" Bullshit. That's just a nice way of saying "We don't even trust our own citizens!"
I'm fucking sick and tired of this hypocritical nation, that calls themselves a free country not run by God-loving fanatics. HEY PEOPLE! Listen to any of Bush's speaches lately. I'd rather have a Muslim Extremest in power than a Christian Etremest!
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Things like this make me proud to be a United States citizen. Our founding fathers did such a great thing with the bill of rights I can't imagine what our society would be like without them.
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A government that tries to "protect" through censorship scares me.
What do you expect when you let a women be prime minister?
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