I think you missed my point ! I don't believe they should be banning access to it.
In response to your post,
1.Nobody forces anyone to view most sites - some appear automatically of course via pop up and re-direction, but not the NRA site......yet !!
2.If I wanted to view the site, I couldn't? I just did !!!! So, no !
3.I am afraid of guns because they kill people. Thats all. I don't want to die yet. Guns are also making hell in my country - Ireland - and machine guns, which is a new thing, are becoming main stream in the underworld.
4.Heston may not be the head of the NRA anymore, but he is certainly the most associated person with that organisation ! Thank Michael Moore for that:)
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I think that banning access to sites from a software privace control centre in a package is insecurity and politics. One would have to question the selection of this issue by Symantec, and also what *bad* industries that they have neglected to ban in the process of putting guns on the list?
People who are into guns are people that would always have been prone to loving guns. Another poster said that if they were giving lessons on how to shoot someone, then OK, perhaps theres a genuine reason to ban it, but this is not the case here.
If I managed to see the NRA site (which I haven't), I would not expect anything other than myself to be fueled with anger at the face of charlton heston. It would make me hate guns even more. The same for anyone else I think.
So, yeah ! This is wrong and we really do have to question the moral highground of Symantec here. Why do they feel that they have the right to do this and what sort of business decision is this on their part?
Also, while in some places you can't change the privacy control, on many machines you can overide the settings - so I suspect that people like me will always have nearly uncensored content allowed. Unfortunately, the kids won't be able to hate the NRA yet because many of them won't have access to their site !!!!!
I hate this scam !!
I was a business owner, and I recieved about 5 letters over the space of a year from Nigerians telling me that they wanted to give me $50,000,000. All I had to do, was give them $10,000 and then we could get underway.
I myself struggle to think how anyone could actually fall for these scams but obviously somepeople do since these letters are obviously being paid for by people other than the people who are sending them.
Nice to see someone getting nailed for some of this, though I fear that it will not be the end of scammers taking advantave of the less intelligent of our planet !!
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I think you missed my point ! I don't believe they should be banning access to it. In response to your post, 1.Nobody forces anyone to view most sites - some appear automatically of course via pop up and re-direction, but not the NRA site......yet !! 2.If I wanted to view the site, I couldn't? I just did !!!! So, no ! 3.I am afraid of guns because they kill people. Thats all. I don't want to die yet. Guns are also making hell in my country - Ireland - and machine guns, which is a new thing, are becoming main stream in the underworld. 4.Heston may not be the head of the NRA anymore, but he is certainly the most associated person with that organisation ! Thank Michael Moore for that :)
n_tit_e
I think that banning access to sites from a software privace control centre in a package is insecurity and politics. One would have to question the selection of this issue by Symantec, and also what *bad* industries that they have neglected to ban in the process of putting guns on the list? People who are into guns are people that would always have been prone to loving guns. Another poster said that if they were giving lessons on how to shoot someone, then OK, perhaps theres a genuine reason to ban it, but this is not the case here. If I managed to see the NRA site (which I haven't), I would not expect anything other than myself to be fueled with anger at the face of charlton heston. It would make me hate guns even more. The same for anyone else I think. So, yeah ! This is wrong and we really do have to question the moral highground of Symantec here. Why do they feel that they have the right to do this and what sort of business decision is this on their part? Also, while in some places you can't change the privacy control, on many machines you can overide the settings - so I suspect that people like me will always have nearly uncensored content allowed. Unfortunately, the kids won't be able to hate the NRA yet because many of them won't have access to their site !!!!!
I hate this scam !! I was a business owner, and I recieved about 5 letters over the space of a year from Nigerians telling me that they wanted to give me $50,000,000. All I had to do, was give them $10,000 and then we could get underway. I myself struggle to think how anyone could actually fall for these scams but obviously somepeople do since these letters are obviously being paid for by people other than the people who are sending them. Nice to see someone getting nailed for some of this, though I fear that it will not be the end of scammers taking advantave of the less intelligent of our planet !!