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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 04:32 AM EDT |
You know, things like this really make me hope that Scotland goes independant.
Because this is just plain stupid.
And impossible to actually make work.
Because ToR.
And ToR hidden services.
And defining "porn" in a way that computers can understand (hell, even
defining it in a way that distinguishes what they want to ban from classical art
is really hard).
I wonder if I can find an ISP who doesn't monitor or cencor connections at all,
that also offers "per-month" pricing, rather than "per-byte"
pricing.
Maybe I should look into starting one. Any links for starting your own ISP?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 06:28 AM EDT |
All that porn must be filling up GCHQ's servers and like in Australia I bet they
will try to keep the list secret.
The mention of the word children is a giveaway to it being a load of cobblers.
Children do not make campaign contributions or vote their only function is to
grow up and pay for the incumbents lifestyles.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 07:43 AM EDT |
First off, the Daily Mail is claiming credit for this.
There are two different stories about what's going on:
One is talkig about the government talking to Google at al. about a blacklist of
search terms. Nothing new there, China does that.
The other is talking about the opt-in at the level of ISPs. Again, I'm pretty
sure China does that too. ToR gets round it. ToR hidden services laugh at it.
And whoever gets to define "porn" is in for a heaping of trouble.
You know, that's a pretty good anti-campaign slogan:
"China does that."
UK politicians don't seem to care about the USA being evil, but they do at least
take notice when you start comparing them to the current "designated
enemy".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 09:15 AM EDT |
I'm just waiting to see what happens when somebody accidentally blocks somewhere
like amazon.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 22 2013 @ 09:21 AM EDT |
I can't read the article where I am, but I hope that quote isn't typical.
"Maintaining access to..." sounds a lot like "continuing to
beat..."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 03:34 AM EDT |
Well, I've come up with some solutions to this:
1) Ban Children from the internet, punishable by 10 years imprisionment.
That'll keep them safe from the horrors.
2) Improve ToR so that it can scale properly (last I heard it has issues with
the number of transfer nodes), build a cheap ADSL router that hosts a ToR node
and puts all traffic through it. They can't enforce if they can't identify, and
remind people that no-one sends important information on a postcard.
3) If children can easily break "parental controls" on Windows
machines, ban parents from owning Windows machines, and make them use something
that's actually secure, like Fedora. Obviously locking the bootloader, and not
giving their children that password, or the root password, are both required.
4) Remind people about the stupidity of computers: Putting the word
"rape" into a search blacklist stops people looking up post-rape
counciling.
4b) What's the factual difference between a sex-ed video and a porn video? That
the actors look to be enjoying themselves in the porn? Then it's not a very
realistic sex-ed video, is it?
5) Take one of the diatribes in the papers, replace "the internet"
with "rock music", and compare to papers from 30 years ago.
6) Ask for an example of "something obviously so horrible that no-one has
any possible reason to search for it" (not even law enforecement). Then
proceed to provide legitimate reasons to search for it.
7) Remind people that, for people with a good grasp of the difference between
reality and fiction, watching violence on TV, playing violent video games,
etc... reduce the incidence of those types of violence, and the same applies for
other "horrids". If you are that way inclined, then getting your fix
in a safe, controlled environment is far prefferable to out on the street. We
could even ask ministers why they are encouraging rapists if we were feeling
confident.
Some of those are "Cameron-style" solutions, others are sensible.
Yes, I'm upset by the idiot in charge.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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