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Japanese Government to Regulate Online Communication
Chris Salzberg writes "The Japanese government made major moves this month toward legislating extensive regulation over online communication. In a series of little-publicized meetings, two distinct government ministries pushed ahead with regulation in three major areas of online communication: web content, mobile phone access, and file sharing. Content regulation will cover anything on the web, including personal blogs and web pages. Upcoming mandatory filtering of mobile phone access is targeted at users under age 18, and will cover chat rooms, forums, bulletin boards and social networking services. File sharing legislation will initially target illegal downloads, but, according to critics, may ultimately broaden to include streaming media from sites such as YouTube."
And this is bad how ?
Anonymous accusations have no credibility, it would show some maturity in society to just ignore them instead of suing their anonymous authors.
Anonymous deth threats have no more credibility.
Racist rethoric is, as far as I know, free speech.
Posting of financial and medical records are possible only if someone has made a criminal incompetence in a bank or at a medical database. You should sue them instead.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
And this is a better way to fix the system... how? By having Aniue make sure that neither they, nor anybody else, steps out of line? If the judges won't be responsible, why would any other part of the government be?
MIAU just cause of it's name.
From what I read, I kind of skimmed over the article, this is more of internet regulation law, then internet censorship law. I think some from of such law should exist.
"The Japanese government made major moves this month toward legislating extensive regulation over online communication. "
Hmmm. Is this the point were everyone brags at how much better broadband is overseas?
[1] Just in case you're American, she was a former prime minister of Pakistan[2]
[2] It's near India.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Besides, people that accept countermeasures acritically can be easily tricked into accepting anything.
You want to own the internet? first let a bunch of loonies roam it spewing falsehoods and bothering people. I guess many of them could be reported to their ISP and blocked before they learn about anonimity. Then, make some media fuss to augment the perceived scope of their actions, and then, legislate for generic censorship to "save the internet".
---- MISSING MISCELLANEOUS DATA SEGMENT --- [sigdash] trolololol
When a government decides what communication is allowed and what communication isn't and then actively prevents disallowed communication, that is censorship. It doesn't matter what the communication is or what excuses are used to justify the policy - government controlled filters are censorship, and censorship is evil.
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
How in the bloody hell can you compare spewing racist rhetoric and posting medical records? If someone from the KKK or Kill Whitey wants to blather on and on about the evil black/white race, let him - it's cheap entertainment. No one with a double digit IQ will take them seriously.
Hell. The Creationist nutjobs are a helluva lot more dangerous than any racist I've come across - but I still would protect their right to make an ass of themselves.
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
What I always fail to see when reading comments like yours is why you are against drawings, or pictures of adults (!) merely *looking* like they're teenagers, and so on.
Maybe it's just me, but wasn't there a *reason* for child abuse being illegal? There was, and the reason was that it actually hurts actual children - not that it offends your (or anyone's) personal taste.
The Japanese government will NOT be regulating Gundam content.
I find your comments extremely naive.