I somehow suspect at least two of the major ISPs will say "go fuck yourselves, pass a law" at this meeting, but also...
The minister promoting the initiative is from MY FUCKING PARTY. I've met the useless twonk, I thought he was OK. Net neutrality gone and now this in one week.
There will be a serious amount of lobbying on this one.
Thank fuck for that. my head has been mixing him up with Ed Davey, also a govt minister.
This changes things, we now have a fuckwit in charge of something important, but not someone I can influence directly. Wonder who he has to wrok with from our lot, should know that really. Thank you, much appreciated.
How is this any different from the Australian route? It's exactly the same - except that at least here in .au it hasn't been done at all and it's unlikely to happen (for now! hah!).
> She quoted the example of two underage brothers sentenced to at least five years' detention this year for a sadistic sex attack on two other boys in South Yorkshire. The brothers were said to have had a "toxic" home life where they were exposed to pornography.
Because everyone knows that this never happened when the Internet didn't exist, right?
Want to fight the early sexualization of children? How about banning Disney? Justin Bieber? Will Smith's daughter?
And now I'm sure the local politicians will see this as an opportunity to copy their UK mentors. Hell, the PM here was born in the UK.
"A survey by Psychologies magazine this summer found that one in three children aged 10 in Britain had viewed pornography on the net." Psychologies magazine is of course well known for being a respected peer-reviewed academic journal (not). And just how did they conduct this survey? From their article Put Porn In Its Place (http://www.psychologies.co.uk/put-porn-in-its-place/): "...we decided to canvass the views of 14- to 16-year-olds at a north London secondary school, the results took us by surprise. • Almost one-third first looked at sexual images online when they were aged 10 or younger...."
Where I grew up (rural Canada), a 10 year old boy you had not been exposed to some adult's insufficiently well hidden Playboy stash was a ridiculously naive nerd.
I may be possible that upper class children during the actual Victorian age were effectively isolated from reproductive information. I wouldn't say that Turned Out Well.
Actually, the upper class kids were taught a lot about it. But distributing such knowlege to the lower classes could get you thrown in jail, as John Stuart Mill found out.
I almost PITY them for trying to do this. PITY I do.
Someone give anonymous a call.
And this is not to mention that so many of these "net nanny" sites are grossly homophobic and any mention of gay people or sexuality at all is instantly censored
The ISPs have told them that what they're asking for is actually impossible to implement, squashing that neatly – as with every other thing the Coalition has done so far, there is a certain hint that the coalition thinks that not only is the internet a series of tubes, but so is everything else in life, and the tube that is their voters the one they most enjoy pissing into.
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Date: 2010-12-20 02:57 am (UTC)The minister promoting the initiative is from MY FUCKING PARTY. I've met the useless twonk, I thought he was OK. Net neutrality gone and now this in one week.
There will be a serious amount of lobbying on this one.
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Date: 2010-12-20 10:47 am (UTC)Just curious...
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Date: 2010-12-20 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-20 12:15 pm (UTC)He's also decided that net neutrality is pointless.
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Date: 2010-12-20 12:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-23 03:40 pm (UTC)Vaizey is not a LibDem!
Date: 2010-12-23 09:26 am (UTC)Re: Vaizey is not a LibDem!
Date: 2010-12-23 03:40 pm (UTC)This changes things, we now have a fuckwit in charge of something important, but not someone I can influence directly. Wonder who he has to wrok with from our lot, should know that really. Thank you, much appreciated.
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Date: 2010-12-20 10:48 am (UTC)And workplaces have filtered internet feeds to stop the likes of grown adults going to gambling, porn or social media sites.
Not that I agree with it, but at least we're not going down the Australian route.
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Date: 2010-12-20 11:06 am (UTC)> She quoted the example of two underage brothers sentenced to at least five years' detention this year for a sadistic sex attack on two other boys in South Yorkshire. The brothers were said to have had a "toxic" home life where they were exposed to pornography.
Because everyone knows that this never happened when the Internet didn't exist, right?
Want to fight the early sexualization of children? How about banning Disney? Justin Bieber? Will Smith's daughter?
And now I'm sure the local politicians will see this as an opportunity to copy their UK mentors. Hell, the PM here was born in the UK.
Fuck you UK. Seriously, this is awful.
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Date: 2010-12-20 11:00 am (UTC)Psychologies magazine is of course well known for being a respected peer-reviewed academic journal (not).
And just how did they conduct this survey? From their article Put Porn In Its Place (http://www.psychologies.co.uk/put-porn-in-its-place/):
"...we decided to canvass the views of 14- to 16-year-olds at a north London secondary school, the results took us by surprise.
• Almost one-third first looked at sexual images online when they were aged 10 or younger...."
::headdesk::
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Date: 2010-12-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-21 12:03 am (UTC)I may be possible that upper class children during the actual Victorian age were effectively isolated from reproductive information. I wouldn't say that Turned Out Well.
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Date: 2010-12-23 03:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-20 11:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-20 12:39 pm (UTC)Someone give anonymous a call.
And this is not to mention that so many of these "net nanny" sites are grossly homophobic and any mention of gay people or sexuality at all is instantly censored
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Date: 2010-12-20 08:36 pm (UTC)people fail. More and more every day
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Date: 2010-12-21 02:51 am (UTC)