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UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button
judgecorp writes "Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, has said that UK government ministers are 'taking action' to get Facebook to add a British child protection button (called CEOP) to its site. The move comes after the UK's Daily Mail withdrew allegations that teenagers on Facebook are continually pestered — though Facebook is still considering suing the paper. The campaign apparently ignores Facebook's assertion that it already has better child protection in place and the CEOP button would be limited to the UK."
Harridan Harperson can suck my cock.
The following list of things should not be considered as trustworthy babysitters and are no substitute for proper parenting skills:
An Internet connected PC
A box of fireworks
A games console
A set of throwing knives
Now kindly stop with trying to fulfill your lives by shitting out more kids that you're not prepared to be responsible for and expecting the rest of us to make concessions for them.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Indeed. The word "liberal" has very different meanings on the opposite sides of the Atlantic. The traditional UK sense of Liberal was closer to (but not equal to) the US Libertarian. True UK liberals would legalise drugs and, probably, guns.
Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
It is shocking how sexist she is and how much she gets away with "because she was a women."
Remember that sexism, by definition, can only be against women and that it's impossible for women to be sexist against men. Once you understand the standard feminist definition of sexism, things should make a lot more sense, whether you agree with it or not.
To top it all off, there's a condition that the government can put on your record making the information on your background check confidential to anyone. Including yourself. You can fail a background check and never you have failed one. The employer can't tell you you've failed, so if there's a mistake on your background check, it is impossible to get it remedied and your life is basically ruined.
In the UK the only "background checks" that are done by employers are those done for people who work with children & vulnerable adults; they are called CRB checks. Both times I've had one done, I got a copy. Other employers don't get to do 'background checks' and even if they were allowed, you could use the data protection act to find out any information they hold on you. In short, your post doesn't apply to the UK.
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
The button is not called CEOP. CEOP is the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The button is apparently called "CLICKCEOP", but is mostly referred to as the "paedophile panic" button in the press or simply the "button" on the CEOP site.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
It is Harriot Harman who argues that being drunk is no defence for men accused of rape (fair enough)... but strangely, she also argues that woman cannot be held to have 'consented' if they are drunk.
She was also responsible for the repeal of the defence in murder cases of 'provocation', which was a defence used primarily by men (again, fair enough). Strange then that at the same time, Harriot brought in a new defence which allowed abused women to claim long term abuse by the husband, as a defence if they then murdered their partner - rather than, say, leave them.
She goes on to argue that the low conviction rate of alleged rapists is proof, in itself, that too many men are getting away with rape (might be true), but fails to acknowledge the alternative explanation, that too many false allegations of rape are being submitted by women.
Harriot is one awful tub of man hating menopausal angst.
Here in the states we use the simple dots or feathers qualifier to determine which kind of indian it is.
Linux Zealots: Smarter than Mac Zealots, but still zealots.
Well we can't call them all Indians because, as you point out, some of them aren't - there's Bangladeshis too. Last time I looked India is part of Asia. The only other people from Asia who were at all common in the UK at the time they started arriving were the Chinese, who already had a name[1]; what's more we already had the term Orientals to mean Vietnamese, Japanese and suchlike.
Looked at like that, it makes complete sense.
[1] Chinese, oddly.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."