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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?"
"Publicly funded" is another term for "government controlled". The BBC debacle was just an internal dispute inside the British government.
Do your research. The BBC is the official media of the UK government. Sometimes there are internal disputes: it is like the publisher of a newspaper fighting with the editorial board.
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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?
The US bill of rights was derived (read: copied) from the British bill of rights.
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What's so sad is that's not a joke anymore =/
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.
"Certainly at the time the US bill of rights was written, there was no British bill of rights - the British scheme of law was part of the reason for the US separating off in the first place." You're wrong. I've heard of Americans practically making pilgrimages to England to see the original bill of rights, get your facts straight.
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The "Royal Charter" means that the BBC was created by the monarchy. Sorry, this does not help your false argument that the BBC is not a branch of the British government.
Government-controlled, government-created, government-censored, and funded through forced taxation. If it walks like a duck....
I hope you die. Soon.
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yea, cos like, all sex, drugs and rock sites are illegal, no wait... YOU'RE TALKING SHIT.
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These whiners are just the kinds of people who need to be killed, corpse-fucked, and eaten.
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How will this affect *BSD developers? Will *BSD websites be targeted by this war against nercophilia?
Breathe, 1, 2, 3, deeply. OK, don't worry you guys can ban all the web sites you want, but do you have to be such a dick about it? I thought you guys were supposed to be polite.
'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.
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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.
I'm sorry, but you are full of shit. As you very well know, there are many differences between the legal systems in the UK and USA. If you can't see them or don't know about them, then perhaps you are either NOT a lawyer, or a crappy one.
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