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Russia to Ban Swearing on the Internet

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/08564023982/russia-to-ban-swearing-internet.shtml

poor sfireman!

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"Obscene language offends both children and adults. A ban on its use is not an infringement of human rights. This is a direction towards a civilized lifestyle. If we do not use foul language in real life, then why do we use it on the Internet?"


lool
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11 years ago
http://www.webpronews.com/uk-porn-ban-prime-minister-declares-war-on-adult-content-2013-07

UK madman wants to ban porn on the internet

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, has announced today that he plans to crack down on internet pornography and focus on making the internet a safer place


them English trolls...
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Skasi
11 years ago
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Obscene language offends both children and adults.

The statement "War is shit!" only offends children and adults who have a fucked up value system.
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The issue with David Cameron's idea is that it is a default-on ISP level filter. That it is being advertised as a filter for pornography is just a political tool, a filter is a filter. Any filter is going to be imperfect, going to slow down internet traffic to check all of it against the filter, and can have its rules changed fairly easily without oversight.

Also, because it is default-on and ISP level, anyone who wants to have proper freedom of information needs to tell the ISP. Which wouldn't be so bad if the filter was advertised as being about pornography. Because of that, anyone who demands freedom in acquiring information has to be made to feel like a pervert, and possibly publicly humiliated as such later on (because ISPs would need to keep a list).

Anyway, thanks to Google's ad policy and safesearch, it's easy to avoid porn while just browsing normally. These politicians seem to be living in 2000, when random porn popups would just happen randomly.

As for Russia, what planet are they on. Everyone bloody swears in real life.
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anyone who wants to have proper freedom of information needs to tell the ISP.

Tor? Proxies? Freenet? All of those could easily be used to avoid it. It is not at all hard to circumvent. Any technically competent child could circumvent it in five minutes. This is even assuming that it works properly in the first place.
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11 years ago
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It is not at all hard to circumvent

The very presence of filter will cost you latency. Adding a proxy on top of that will cost you even more latency.

End score: everybody loses.
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End score: everybody loses.

Everybody will lose, but they will have spent billions on whatever censorware it is that will not even work. My point is that it will not achieve the purpose they claim it will. I wonder what purposes it will actually be put to though, blocking any website that the government do not like? (WikiLeaks)
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Our corrupted politics just want to cover their asses. On Internets we can talk what we really think about them. We may find eveidence of their corruption. Or we even can organize demonstrations.

Certnaly it is not what they want. So we get this stupid law. We already had wave of supid laws that was started after false election of president. It is just part of that wave.

Because many people starting to understand things. And possible they starting to fear for future of their country. After false election of Putin many people start to go on demonstrations. So we get wave of stupid laws that "protect us from anything".

It's not about childrens for sure.

If you ask "What is wrong in your contry?", I may give you nearest exapmle- not so many time ago our Department of Defence was caught on economy crimes. After that our Minister of Defence was dismissed and part of people from Department of Defence was put under house arrest. And they still under house arrest. Our Minister of Defence take status of witness. Is it good that people who have so much responsibility were corrupted and still there is no sure that they will have any responsibility for their cimes?
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