Internet filtering: You can't opt-out (5 Viewers)

[Anderson101]

Fuck if you had children, god save this earth.

hahaha

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

There was actually a sedition high court case against someone by the name of lance sharkey in 1949.

So 60 years ago. And then Johnny revived the law.

 

[Anderson101]

anyways, wtf is wrong with porn. fuck you ad infintum

 

[philphie]

anyways, wtf is wrong with porn. fuck you ad infintum

i think he made a sex tape and it went viral so he doesn't want his kids to see his poor performance at their conception, ultimately explaining why his children are as genetically unappealing as they are

 

[SnowFox]

I think he has some fascination with rape. Every post he has made makes reference to it one way or another.


Dirty cunt is dirty.

 

[jennyfromdabloc]

Why don't any of you people have the courage to say this stuff in the real world? Why do you always demand your murder porn from the virtual shadow? The only people that are afraid of the coming clensing are the dirty people, the people who are running and spreading these vile sites. I don't want my children be forced to view this stuff. You either endorse these vile sites, or you want them banned. Chose your side.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

jenny: you are not funny, you are not original, and you are not in a position to insult comrade Iron. Shuttup.

This shit's gone mainstream niggers - they had a lengthy report and interview about it on 2UE yesterday and everyone was against it.

 

[Anderson101]

haha 2UE.

fuck I hate steve price

 

[jennyfromdabloc]

jenny: you are not funny, you are not original, and you are not in a position to insult comrade Iron. Shuttup.

This shit's gone mainstream niggers - they had a lengthy report and interview about it on 2UE yesterday and everyone was against it.

I wasn't trying to be funny or original.

I was just stating very bluntly that Iron has become a boring troll.

 

[Slidey]

Tire Iron.

 

[Iron]

u need me on that wall

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

iron rox my sox
more rep plz iron

 

[BlackDragon]

I think its pretty scary that a government wants to censor what its people see. It should never be done.

 

[0bs3n3]

Ban This Game!

Anyone seen this?

 

[philphie]

i don't use the internet so do whatever the fuck you want.

 

[jazzzod]

There's nothing like a personal phone call to get the message across. Call the minister's office on (03) 9650 1188 and let them know your objections.

Pwnd.

 

[SnowFox]

Ban This Game!

Anyone seen this?

haha fuck someone send it to Gamers4Croydon LOL

 

[zstar]

Conroy Tries to Expand Censorship to Youtube but Google Doesn't budge.

Google says it will not "voluntarily" comply with the government's request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad "refused classification" (RC) content rules.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google's censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally.

Google warns this would lead to the removal of many politically controversial, but harmless, YouTube clips.

University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt, one of Australia's top communications experts, said that to comply with Conroy's request Google "would have to install a filter along the lines of what they actually have in China".

As it prepares to introduce legislation within weeks forcing ISPs to block a blacklist of RC websites, the government says it is in talks with Google over blocking the same type of material from YouTube.

YouTube's rules already forbid certain videos that would be classified RC, such as sex, violence, bestiality and child pornography. But the RC classification extends further to more controversial content such as information on euthanasia, material about safer drug use and material on how to commit more minor crimes such as painting graffiti.

Google said all of these topics were featured in videos on YouTube and it refused to censor these voluntarily. It said exposing these topics to public debate was vital for democracy.

In an interview with the ABC's Hungry Beast, which aired last night, Conroy said applying ISP filters to high-traffic sites such as YouTube would slow down the internet, "so we're currently in discussions with Google about ... how we can work this through".

"What we're saying is, well in Australia, these are our laws and we'd like you to apply our laws," Conroy said.

"Google at the moment filters an enormous amount of material on behalf of the Chinese government; they filter an enormous amount of material on behalf of the Thai government."

Google Australia's head of policy, Iarla Flynn, said the company had a bias in favour of freedom of expression in everything it did and Conroy's comparisons between how Australia and China deal with access to information were not "helpful or relevant".

Google has recently threatened to pull out of China, partly due to continuing requests for it to censor material.

"YouTube has clear policies about what content is not allowed, for example hate speech and pornography, and we enforce these, but we can't give any assurances that we would voluntarily remove all Refused Classification content from YouTube," Flynn said.

"The scope of RC is simply too broad and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information. RC includes the grey realms of material instructing in any crime from [painting] graffiti to politically controversial crimes such as euthanasia, and exposing these topics to public debate is vital for democracy."

Asked for further comment, a Google Australia spokeswoman said that, while the company "won't comply voluntarily with the broad scope of all RC content", it would comply with the relevant laws in countries it operates in.

However, if Conroy includes new YouTube regulations in his internet filtering legislation, it is not clear if these would apply to Google since YouTube is hosted overseas.

"They [Google] don't control the access in Australia - all their equipment that would do this is hosted overseas ... and I would find it very hard to believe that the Australian government can in any way force an American company to follow Australian law in America," Landfeldt said.

"Quite frankly it would really not be workable ... every country in the world would come to Google and say this is what you need to do for our country. You would not be able to run the kind of services that Google provides if that would be the case."

This week the Computer Research and Education Association (CORE) put out a statement on behalf of all Australasian computer science lecturers and professors opposing the government's internet filtering policy.

They said the filters would only block a fraction of the unwanted material available on the internet, be inapplicable to many of the current methods of online content distribution and create a false sense of security for parents.

CORE said the blacklist could be used by current and future governments to restrict freedom of speech, while those determined to get around the filters and access nasty content could do so with ease.

Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube

 

[UGLYsusanBOYLE]

Interwebs censorship is da jizz

 

[jb_nc]

Whoever made the poll which my thread was merged with is a dumb cunt.

Why couldn't it have been:

Do you support mandatory filtering of RC content?

( ) YES
( ) NO