Governments need to be able to make laws about communications technology, but those laws really should only be specifically aimed at servers contained within their borders. Otherwise you get into censorship, which with the Internet is nearly impossible. Broader agreements at the international level could help address or control global issues like criminal activity. That's why I advocate moving all erotic sites to an.xxx domain. An international agreement would provide for far better filtering. But how to accomplish this is beyond me at this time.
While I am all for preventing child abuse, the problem with this is... how do you outlaw images that come from a different country? You can go to servers all over the world from the UK. Or is it just applicable for websites that are hosted in the UK?
Why not just require all sexually-related material to be placed on a.XXX domain to make for easy filtering? This would be a pretty easy, almost binary yes/no question as to whether it should be on a.XXX domain. Part of the answer, IMHO: there is way too much money out there in commercial pornography and all of the related stuff in the industry, and no one wants to lose that money, or cause that money to be lost.
At the beginning of the first book they have a flashback to a predicted war between Israel and the Arab nations in which those attacking Israel are pretty much obliterated miraculously by fire from heaven. I haven't read the whole of the books but its my impression that the Muslim countries pretty much aren't players in the books fictional timeline.
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Whether a postcard is read or not is not the point. The point is when the contents of a postcard - or an email - can be used in a court of law.
Governments need to be able to make laws about communications technology, but those laws really should only be specifically aimed at servers contained within their borders. Otherwise you get into censorship, which with the Internet is nearly impossible. Broader agreements at the international level could help address or control global issues like criminal activity. That's why I advocate moving all erotic sites to an .xxx domain. An international agreement would provide for far better filtering. But how to accomplish this is beyond me at this time.
So that's why all those secure file shredding programs are making so much money...
While I am all for preventing child abuse, the problem with this is... how do you outlaw images that come from a different country? You can go to servers all over the world from the UK. Or is it just applicable for websites that are hosted in the UK? Why not just require all sexually-related material to be placed on a .XXX domain to make for easy filtering? This would be a pretty easy, almost binary yes/no question as to whether it should be on a .XXX domain. Part of the answer, IMHO: there is way too much money out there in commercial pornography and all of the related stuff in the industry, and no one wants to lose that money, or cause that money to be lost.
At the beginning of the first book they have a flashback to a predicted war between Israel and the Arab nations in which those attacking Israel are pretty much obliterated miraculously by fire from heaven. I haven't read the whole of the books but its my impression that the Muslim countries pretty much aren't players in the books fictional timeline.
With 1.2 billion people, they have so many government officials that they had to make work for some of them...