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Censorship?  [message #43843] Mon, 09 July 2007 02:27 Go to next message
JFR is currently offline  JFR

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A bill has been introduced into the Israeli parliament which would require all ISPs to give their customers a choice: if you want absolutely free web access you must give your age and ID every time you access a site that contains porn\\violence\\gambling; alternatively you can choose to remain anonymous and have that kind of site automatically filtered out.

What do you think? Is this a legitimate protecting of the vulnerable or crass censorship?

Of course, there is no guarantee that this private member's bill will be enacted into law; but neither is there any guarantee that it won't.

J F R



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Re: Censorship?  [message #43845 is a reply to message #43843] Mon, 09 July 2007 06:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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It's the old "those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear" argument that all dictatorships love



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Re: Censorship?  [message #43846 is a reply to message #43843] Mon, 09 July 2007 09:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Deeej is currently offline  Deeej

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How very depressing.
Re: Censorship?  [message #43847 is a reply to message #43843] Mon, 09 July 2007 10:23 Go to previous message
saben is currently offline  saben

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It's over the top. If kids are looking for porn, they'll find it. And "stumbling" across porn accidentally isn't easy with google. Those looking for porn will still use file sharing programs anyway. So really all it does is invade privacy.



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