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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."
As an aside, are cable modems available in Britain?
No. In jolly old Britian, the best we have is 300bps modems. I would write more, but it would take too long to upload.
I'm not trolling here, but coming from Britain I can tell you that we are certainly not a western democracy.
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.
Most people don't know this. We chose this system of government because we believe that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. At the end of the day we believe that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.
I hope that clears things up for you all.
Yes... cause in an argument about the diffrence between making the stuff and sharing the stuff an analogy about you making a film is definitly an effective argument...
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If child porn is encrypted, then it becomes impossible to see it by accident. If the BT action is intended to stop people coming across disturbing and illegal child porn by accident then the fact that child pornographers can exchange images in secrecy is by the by.
Don't worry, BT employ huge teams of highly trained paedophiles to accurately identify the child porn sites.
IANAL I would assume all images depicting said acts would likely be illegal :)
Sorry, I just had to laugh, that acronym works on so many levels in this context
Shouldn't Freedom of Speech end where discrimination, racism, hate and torture start?
No, no, no, and yes. (And the last one doesn't make sense; torture isn't speech).
Stop bullshitting about censorship. This is something totally different.
Right, you're not for censorship, you're just for stopping people from expressing opinions you don't like.
If it's up to me, go get every discriminating, racism-spreading no good website such as www.stormfront.org and take them down!
Then I am very grateful that it is not up to you.
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