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Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks
An anonymous reader writes "A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up"
the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing,
know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to
block content. ISPs that fail to block would faces possible jail time
for the company's directors and officers."
It's always disturbing to see things like this, but this is nothing to worry about. The bill is a "private member's bill". That means that her party isn't interested. Even worthwhile private member's bills that would receive a lot of support if sponsored by the party have little chance of passage. Furthermore, she isn't a prominent member of the party. It's very unlikely that this bill will go anywhere.
Some lowlights: So if I let my flatmates share my internet connection, that makes me an ISP without a licence? Which makes telling a paedophile to get help an offense. On the upside, this could cut down on some of the vigilantism.
If I am mistaken, please enlighten me and show me exactly where explicit violence targeting women (i.e. beating, raping, torture, etc) is promoted in The Bible.
...
"Suppose a man marries a woman,
and says, "I married this woman;
but when I lay with her, I did not
find evidence of her virginity."
If, this charge is true, that evidence
of the young woman's virginity was
not found, then they shall bring the
young woman out to the entrance
of her father's house and the men
of her town shall stone her to death."
Deut 22:13-21
Exodus and Leviticus are chock full of prescribed punishments for women who do everything from sleep with another man (stoning) to practice "witchcraft" (stoning) to a slave having sex with her master (that's a stoning) to stating that women are "worth" about 50-70% what a man is worth.
Though like most Christians you'll insist that none of that stuff matters anymore. Why then, I ask you, is it still in your holy book, and why do people point to the same book when talking about other "moral codes."
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Of course the list is secret, because publishing it would be tantamount to publishing a list of "good terrorist and child porn sites", and no government would want to do that!
If it's the same "clean feed" technology that the UK government forces all ISPs to "voluntarily" use, then you might like to look at this paper (pdf) which describes how to use the system to discover what sites it is blocking, and perhaps will give you some ideas on how to circumvent it.
Funny, I ran the technical operations for an ISP until last November and I never heard of that list.
There is a list of sites that have been shut down, but those are sites that were hosted in Australia. There's no list of sites that you're not allowed to access. There simply isn't any filtering in place to do that.