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    Urwendur Ûrîbêl Senior Member Mouzafphaerre's Avatar
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    Default Re: Will the internet be filtered/censored in the future?

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    It's being done in Turkey ever since. They needed a court's rule, which wasn't the least hard to get, but recently they passed an act and they don't need it anymore. Any peasant-become-civil officer (there are no civil servants here; people are the servants of the state) is able to block any website at his will. Youtube is a frequent popular target.
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    Oh, god... now we're gonna end up in one of those freakin' awful techno rebel hacker movies from the 80's, where the only way to get around ISP filtering is to enter a crude 3-d avatar and, to the tone of the worst music you have ever heard in your life, navigate a half-assed portal of random lights and blocks and crap, with the occasional wierd-looking picture of the "enemy" popping up and shooting glowing lights at you, and anyone who wants to navigate the idiotic 80's techno tunnel to freedom will need to know all of the worst lingo ever invented by man: leet speak!

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    Jesus, Gonzo; and I always thought there was that horrible part of my childhood that I forgot about. Now thanks to your post I vaguely recall from the dark depths of my mind some ludicrous visualization involving skeletons and primitive blocky brick dungeons to represent "hacks."

    Gah! Gah! Gah! Those "techno" movies are crimes against humanity and their creators should be shot. With crossbows. By skeletons.

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    They're already going to do that here, Neo-Facist Rudd has commanded it be done, and his wish will be fulfilled by the mindless drones who will happily give up their civil liberties.



    Not to mention the possible banning of plastic bags without the consultation of the general public.
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    No it won't! Our leaders are great! Hail our leaders!
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    Does anyone here believe that there will ever be anything that's not regulated by the government sooner or later?


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    No, and I don't think it's always a bad idea either.

    Filtering child porn and how to make ferterliser bombs is different from filtering out pirated TV shows, though that is illigal.

    Filtering user to user traffic is a bit trickier, if the ISP knows a crime is being committed surely they have a responsibility to report it.
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