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'Extreme' Web Sites Under Fire From UK Police
An anonymous reader writes "A conference on electronic crime, taking place in London this week, has thrown up some interesting news. Britain's top hi-tech police officer has demanded a crackdown on Web sites devoted to 'abhorrent' subjects such as cannibalism and necrophilia. What happened to freedom of expression online?"
of course this is much more exciting than chasing bicycle thiefs and rapists. staying inside the office with "hot coffee and donuts" is much more comfortable than writing parking fines in the rain. or maybe a new "special task force" / department is taking care of this nonsense?
I presume the winning terrorists to which you refer are the ones currently residing in positions of great power around the world?
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I don't hear of many 'terrorists', in the conventional sense of the word, terrorising to ban necrophile and cannibal web sites.
These whiners are just the kinds of people who need to be killed, corpse-fucked, and eaten.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
'On an entirely unrelated note, why is a union of 2 commited lovers, whatever their sex, a threat to "the oldest and most sacred institution in America", whereas a 2 minute drive-thru ceremony in Las Vegas isn't?'
Well, the first is apparently a threat to "the oldest and most sacred institution in America", while the banning of it is merely a threat to the 'equality' and 'seperation of church and state' clauses of the Constition, and so relatively unimportant.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
I understand that there are two distinct legal cultures in Europe; the English and the French. To make a gross generalization, the English system emphasizes personal freedom while the French system is more concerned with the powers of the state and is framed from the state's perspective.
Luckily the USA (inter alia) inherited the English system, along with the libertarian thread of English philosophy - Thomas Paine et al.