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British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites
An anonymous reader writes "British Telecom has taken the unprecedented step of blocking all illegal child pornography websites in a crackdown on abuse online. The decision by Britain's largest high-speed internet provider will lead to the first mass censorship of the web attempted in a Western democracy."
Don't you know, kiddie-porn wants to be free?
A blog about stuff.
I'm sick of you 'slippery slope' assholes. The simple truth is that there is _no_ slippery slope. There never has been and there never will be. You clowns talk like it is a law of the universe.
If there is a 'slippery slope' then legislative democracy is an unworkable charade; it would be impossible to govern a third of a billion people. But America seems to have been doing just that for 250 years, thank you. We've even managed to roll back some bad laws-uphill on your asinine little slope.
The thought that, if a legislator votes for A he/she will inevitably _have_ to vote for Z is a fraud and an intellectual embarassment. They voted like that because they chose to; not because the fabric of the universe made it necessary. Any legislator who thinks, let alone acts, like that is treasonous, ignorant, or on the take. He/she is certainly unfit to serve in a country created by the likes of Jefferson, Paine and Adams.
Then again, most of us Americans are unfit to live in such a country.
Archaic by whose standards? If a larger number of people decide to swim in filth, does that make the filth less dirty?
What's happening here is a larger number of people are saying, "Ya we know what we're looking at is dirty, but we want to look at it anyway." It doesn't make it any less obscene.
Cracking down on kiddy porn is not an unreasonable restriction on free speech.
I agree about cracking down on the distribution and creation of kiddy porn, but I've never understood why it's illegal to view it. If it's already been made, then who is hurt by viewing it as long as one doesn't pay money for it?
"then who is hurt by viewing it as long as one doesn't pay money for it?"
The people whose life purpose is to impose their morals on others.