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Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-your-new-child-friendly-web dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children. Their statement came at the end of a Senate hearing in which civil liberties groups were not invited."

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  1. Ok, the end of the Internet is here... by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Freenet ready yet? What do you mean they're still coding it in Java?

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  2. My Announcement: by JimXugle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would like to make a bipartisan call for the universal firing of every congress critter who supports this idea in order to protect us from stupidity. Congressmen are not invited to comment on this request.

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    1. Re:My Announcement: by frdmfghtr · · Score: 4, Funny

      We already do that periodically. They are called "elections."

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  3. Re:1984 much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Orwell must be looking down and shaking his head. More like spinning in his grave. If you wrapped copper wire around his corpse and put a magnet on his coffin it would probably yield enough kilowatts to light up your entire neighborhood.
  4. Re:Say what now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I WAS considering raping a puppy...

  5. Study Proves by PenGun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having stupid friends makes you stupid.

  6. Re:What a Crock... by wiredlogic · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are they trying to do? Emulate China?

    Part of the "No Filter Left Behind" policy.

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  7. Re:Ha! by markov_chain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully fossils like him will just die off or (even better) get thrown out of office and replaced by people who aren't utterly clueless.

    You're new here, aren't you?

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  8. Re:1984 much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    More like spinning in his grave. If you wrapped copper wire around his corpse and put a magnet on his coffin it would probably yield enough kilowatts to light up your entire neighborhood. Doing the same to Thomas Jefferson could power the entire country.
  9. kids are seeing boobies!! by SQLz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids are seeing boobies. Is that the world you want to live in!

    1. Re:kids are seeing boobies!! by WeblionX · · Score: 5, Funny

      As long as I don't have to see the kids.

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    2. Re:kids are seeing boobies!! by 0x0000 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Who would, unless he/ she already is greatly disturbed, even think there is a need to blur animal genitalia?

      The animal, maybe? You are showing incredible disregard for the rights of the victim, here. What poor dog wants to have the images of his/her genitalia internationally broadcast? Was the dog even consulted before this video was made? Is there a pawprint on the release forms?

      What's that? Dogs don't have legal status in such matters? Well there you go! It's obviously an oppression of the canine species, an outright abuse of man's best friend! Have you seen the studies showing sharp increases of abuse of canines by humans and other species in populations when images of dog genitalia are so common?

      All I can think of to say to these people is: "DOGGIE PEE-PEE! DOGGIE PEE-PEE! DOGGIE PEE-PEE!"

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    3. Re:kids are seeing boobies!! by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

      But to bleep out the formal reference to a body part, just because it happens to be a reproductive organ, makes me sick.

      There is an upside to this. You won't ever have to hear someone talking about Bush & Dick again.

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    4. Re:kids are seeing boobies!! by ElleyKitten · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm disturbed by doggie penis.

      Maybe the blurring people got bored. If I was a blurrer, I'd blur out random things, like people noses or apples, just to confuse the viewers.

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  10. Help us, Obi Ron by Tony · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd love to be a libertarian, but it seems I'd have to believe that the free market works, and corporations are free to do business however they wish.

    I wouldn't mind, assuming we returned corporations to a public charter system, in which a corporation may have its charter revoked if it is found to behave illegally. And, I'd like to see some vengeance against the to executives, and make it so if Kenneth Lay dies, we get to see his body so all the ex-Enron employees who were fleeced out of their retirement funds can piss in his cold dead mouth.

    'Cause I don't think he's dead.

    If the libertarians can promise me that, I'm a convert. 'Cause except for the whole trust-in-the-free-market thing, I'm mostly there.

    Actually, I'm a liberal anarcho-constitutionalist. But that's pretty damned close.

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  11. Re:Who filters the filterers? by symbolic · · Score: 2, Funny

    You do if you're Ted Stevens.

  12. Re:Bodies by hummassa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, think about who's passing these laws: ugly-ass dodecagenarians 12-year-old ugly people?

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  13. The Filter Gap!!! by LaminatorX · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one am grateful to our Senators for making sure we don't get left behind by the Chinese.