Comments on: Australia wants a leap backwards – censor the Internet http://www.sebastyne.com/tech-rants/australia-wants-a-leap-backwards-censor-the-internet/ Basically... Twitter profile drives me nuts. This is to replace it. XD (Rather an over reaction don't you think?!) Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sebastyne http://www.sebastyne.com/tech-rants/australia-wants-a-leap-backwards-censor-the-internet/#comment-113 Sebastyne Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:11:06 +0000 http://www.sebastyne.net/?p=578#comment-113 Sometimes installing such filter could also make matters worse from the point of view of protecting children. A lot of children are a lot more handy with the net than their parents are, and would be capable of bypassing the filter anyway. (A little study to the matter revealed a fairly easy bypass strategy.) So the kids bypass the filter and the parents are blissfully unaware of such possibility trusting the filter to do the parenting for them. Wopsee, snuff films, here they come! Sometimes installing such filter could also make matters worse from the point of view of protecting children. A lot of children are a lot more handy with the net than their parents are, and would be capable of bypassing the filter anyway. (A little study to the matter revealed a fairly easy bypass strategy.) So the kids bypass the filter and the parents are blissfully unaware of such possibility trusting the filter to do the parenting for them. Wopsee, snuff films, here they come!

]]> By: Pushhyarag http://www.sebastyne.com/tech-rants/australia-wants-a-leap-backwards-censor-the-internet/#comment-112 Pushhyarag Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:01:30 +0000 http://www.sebastyne.net/?p=578#comment-112 Any legislation with ostensibly good intentions is fraught with possibilities of arbitrariness in enforcement and this could be true of laws regulating internet content; so you & I could be the ones hit by such arbitrariness! From a different angle, as you have shown to admit it would be wise to filter the content how do you visualize the possibility of two kinds of service-filtered and non-filtered being offered at the same time to avoid compulsory impositions? Filtering content by parents is hardly effective: children access net other than at home if they find anything curiously exciting. Hmm..as a concerned parent, I find merit in the proposition while I also feel personal liberties merit accommodation. In the end, the discretion & judgment of those who get empowered determines what you get. <abbr><em>Pushhyarags last blog post..Evolving Lifestyle: Vegetarianism</abbr></em> Any legislation with ostensibly good intentions is fraught with possibilities of arbitrariness in enforcement and this could be true of laws regulating internet content; so you & I could be the ones hit by such arbitrariness!

From a different angle, as you have shown to admit it would be wise to filter the content how do you visualize the possibility of two kinds of service-filtered and non-filtered being offered at the same time to avoid compulsory impositions?

Filtering content by parents is hardly effective: children access net other than at home if they find anything curiously exciting.

Hmm..as a concerned parent, I find merit in the proposition while I also feel personal liberties merit accommodation.

In the end, the discretion & judgment of those who get empowered determines what you get.

Pushhyarags last blog post..Evolving Lifestyle: Vegetarianism

]]> By: Tony Single http://www.sebastyne.com/tech-rants/australia-wants-a-leap-backwards-censor-the-internet/#comment-111 Tony Single Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:00:18 +0000 http://www.sebastyne.net/?p=578#comment-111 I am worried about this. Censorship has never been a good thing. Content warnings on things are fine though. Some brief information on what one can expect to see in something is okay because there may be certain things I might not want to see - so a little forewarning would be nice. ...but outright censorship. Someone deciding for me what I can see and what I can say? That is troubling indeed. I have never let anyone dictate my thoughts or actions, and I don't intend to start letting them now! I feel like I need to make a note to myself to never use certain words now, because if that's all it takes to get me restricted from public consumption... well, that doesn't sit well with me. <abbr><em>Tony Singles last blog post..A Message for You [Trottersville #91]</abbr></em> I am worried about this. Censorship has never been a good thing. Content warnings on things are fine though. Some brief information on what one can expect to see in something is okay because there may be certain things I might not want to see – so a little forewarning would be nice.

…but outright censorship. Someone deciding for me what I can see and what I can say? That is troubling indeed. I have never let anyone dictate my thoughts or actions, and I don’t intend to start letting them now!

I feel like I need to make a note to myself to never use certain words now, because if that’s all it takes to get me restricted from public consumption… well, that doesn’t sit well with me.

Tony Singles last blog post..A Message for You [Trottersville #91]

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