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Re: Censorship is here

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From: Frater
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:22
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"Dyslecix Anderson" <Rod Pace sucks> wrote in
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> Exactly.
> 
> When people use these services they will think they are safe.  Lets
> face it these services are being introduced because some people are to
> stupid to protect or censor their own computers and/or networks. 
> These same people ar too bloody stupid to know what an antivirus
> scanner even is let alone how to use one.  Then the rest of the world
> has to pay for ways to protect the silly ones. 
> 
> Who is paying for this system anyway.  I bet it will be tax payers.  I
> object very strongly solely on that one point.  Why should we spend
> tax dollars to protect stupid people from a service they do not need
> or have to even use at all.  It is just a big joke. Expensive,
> ineffective and just plain impractical. 
> 

> 

Bottom line is there is no technical solution to a primarily social 
problem.  We're all adults, we can monitor what we access and should be 
able to monitor what our children access in the same way.

Once we start to allow some body, be it corporate or government, to 
censor things we don't like, it wont be long before they worry more 
about censoring things -they- don't like (or they don't like us to like 
and so-on).

From there its a small step to censoring things they don't like said 
about them.  Then it's hello Orwell.
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From: Frater <bigbrother@is.watching>
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