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The Great Firewall of Canada
engtech writes "Canadian carriers Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw, TELUS, and Videotron have all opted in to a blacklist, dubbed Project Cleanfeed Canada, provided by Cybertip.ca, the Canadian tip-line against child exploitation. The idea of having a national blacklist sends shivers down my spine. I'm a pessimist, I believe that any form of censorship will eventually be abused despite it's good intentions." Besides engtech's post on the subject, Dr. Michael Geist has some considered comments about this issue. From that post: "Critics are quick to draw parallels to Internet censorship in countries such as China. However, those countries involve state-based content blocking, with no transparency or legal recourse. In fact, several democracies — most notably Australia — have established limited blocking rules, while British Telecom, the UK's largest ISP, voluntarily blocks child pornography as part of its CleanFeed program. Even with various legal safeguards, many Canadians would undoubtedly find the blocking of any content distasteful. Yet to do nothing is to leave in place an equally unpalatable outcome that silences those would speak out against unlawful hate speech for fear of personal harm."
I'm an American in Canada and I think your comment is just the type of America bashing that abot 50% of the population dose just to be against America. I read the child's book that calls America a spoiled teenager too.
Look you self richeous Snowball if it was not for us Teenage Americans covering your ass all thees years you would not have your F'ed up medical system (you would actually have to have a defense system and pay for it) and have been able to have discussions in English or French (you would all be speaking Russian) comrade.
as for you all being so flipen peaceful and PC up here I see 300K immigrents holding up your economy of American company's and paying huge Taxes for urban sprawl and over inflated housing prices. to add insult to injury there is no infrastructure here I mean 4 lane Roads intersecting with stop signs and over passes falling on cars killing familys WTF is that aboat eh.
with the amount of immigration that is going on here it's funny how the "White Canadians" do not involve them self with the immigrents and the immigrants all cluster together Chinese cluster with Chinese, Indians cluster with Indians, and so on and so forth. Canada is setting up for an all out race war in the next 10-15 years
with the 300K that immigrate here every year (and you guys would not have let this happen if you dident have NAFTA given to you by Uncle Sam) less than 10% of them will ever be able to vote or become citizens in Canada.
Talk about human rites violations what Canada is doing is close to TAX slavery.
if you are going to talk smack about how Americans Love there free speech you had better learn about your own country first.
you are never going to stop some one from braking a law they want to brake by removing one avenue they will find another way.
I mean you guys are even infighting, Alberta won't let oil revenue out of Alberta, Quebec wants to be it's own nation and Harper is considering letting them be a nation inside of Canada the nation (now that is a bit redundant) the French had a tantrum and left Louisiana to run up here now they are having another tantrum if. America is the Teen then Canada is the coward infant who ran up here to hide while the U.S and by the way America is the contanet not the country my country is the United States. fought for freedom while Canada kind of got it's freedom by proxie from the U.S.
as a mater of fact next time you see an American you kiss them right on the ass and say thank you for my life as an uppity but free Canadian idiot.
I'd Tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past
I believe child pornography should be legal. The sexual abuse of children, whether for the purpose of producing pornography, or not, should be illegal and vigorously investigated and prosecuted.
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It seems to me these days that people on Slashdot get up in arms if ANYBODY ever considers trying to 'censor' the internet. IT'S CHILD PORNOGRAPHY! IT NEEDS TO BE BANNED! I'd prefer it if the government took steps to go after those people. Perhaps you should be more concerned if the government starts banning things like regular wholesome porn. If that starts happening you could write an article on THAT.
These little 'moments' you keep having about your rights on the internet are really getting old. Rest assured some child pornographer will be smiling when he reads about your indignation.
I don't own a snook, and if I did I wouldn't leave it cocked.
Currently, in Montréal, there are several controversies:
- A YMCA blanked out windows to a gym because the sight of lycra-women doing aerobics was "distracting" to hassidic boys in the rabbinical college accross the lane. (1, 2, 3).
- Hospital and other health center violate the law by preventing fathers from attending neonatal classes, because it upsets muslim women. Likewise, muslim men won't let male doctors touch their wives.
- The Montréal police union is up in arms over an article published in an internal paper, which says that women police should avoid talking to hassidim jews, and let their male colleagues do it instead.
Now, if I go around and say that jews are a bunch of assholes by thinking they can shove their fucking dirty garbage values down the throats of everyone else, I can be jailed. And if I the same thing about islam, I can be jailed, too. But now, some political leaders are starting to slowly raise a stink about it. Now what's gonna happen? They gonna be jailed too? Their websites will be censored?
(Yes, I think that jews are assholes; 20 years ago, the same hassidic jews outlawed bathing suits in a Montréal suburb; they could not bear the sight of human beings sunbathing in city parks!!! They found a very attentive ear in the same mayor who, 15 years earlier, as justice minister, thought nothing of suppressing individual freedoms and liberties by declaring martial law (and for which 400 people were jailed without trial).
O your just a stupid poopy-pants Blah, Blah, Blah, La lalalalalalalala
I'm not listening
I'd Tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past
Uooowiii you are soooo ferocious!
Actualy I run my Mercedes on Vegetable Oil
30K troops are not going to defend your borders cupcake, it's the "complicated and vulnerable military hardware" brought to you by the U.S. of A that holds your bordes safe! Canada is a big old target for many nations. It has a weath of raw materials and oil that many nations would juss love to get there dick skinners on
think what you like and pick at only one issue but still your just an American waithing to happen.
(Shushhh on) dont tell him I'm just diging at him (/Shushhh Off)
you are the person who got me started on this RANT!
I at leat keep coming back to the real issue the firewall and why it's a bad thing.
you sound like you are from the southern U.S.A. "Go home Yankee" are you the big-headed boy playing banjo on a porch in Canada LOL
I've been to War, have you?
Yeah and you kicked our ass in 1812 but your still using the same wepons, and tactic. it wont happen again.
I'd Tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past