Noah Vail
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| Hmmmm. Maybe no.
Lots of folks here know how rabidly anti-porn I am.
Even so, I'd like this a lot better as an opt-in.
Railroading people into healthy choices usually doesn't work out too well.
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| said by Noah Vail  :Lots of folks here know how rabidly anti-porn I am. Even so, I'd like this a lot better as an opt-in. Railroading people into healthy choices usually doesn't work out too well. If they stuck to blocking sites offering up illegal material, I'd have no problem with it. But blocking sites that some pol might not like is venturing in to an area similar to the "Great Firewall of China" - blocking material unliked(but legal) by the admin in power.
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Noah Vail
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| I'm liking the idea of government blocking, less and less.
In Australia, of all places. This doesn't fit my stereotype of the Australian people, at all.
Maybe if the ISP's unilaterally offered up their own filtering option, the government would back off.
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said by Noah Vail :Maybe if the ISP's unilaterally offered up their own filtering option, the government would back off. I am curious why you find this to be any more palatable.
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said by Noah Vail :I'm liking the idea of government blocking, less and less. In Australia, of all places. This doesn't fit my stereotype of the Australian people, at all. Maybe if the ISP's unilaterally offered up their own filtering option, the government would back off. NV You don't know enough about the Australian people
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said by Noah Vail :Even so, I'd like this a lot better as an opt-in. If they are going to do this, agree. Although there seems to be no reason for the Australian government to be in the business of creating and updating filters on offensive or illegal material. It is a massive duplication of effort in light of the long list of currently available products that perform filtering of content. Instead of making an opt-in content block, the taxpayers of Australia would be better served if that government educated internet users of their options for filtering instead of getting into the content filtering business.
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said by Noah Vail :Railroading people into healthy choices usually doesn't work out too well. Who says pornography isn't healthy? I think it's more unhealthy for someone to be so uptight about the nude body, the stress shortens your life and your quality of life is very much reduced when you can't see such beautiful things.
I do agree that it wouldn't go over well if I were to force my idea of a "healthy choice" upon those who disagree with me though. |
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said by TKJunkMail :If they stuck to blocking sites offering up illegal material, I'd have no problem with it. But blocking sites that some pol might not like is venturing in to an area similar to the "Great Firewall of China" - blocking material unliked(but legal) by the admin in power. The same threat exists with blocking "illegal" material. Many things can be called illegal by some line or other of specious reasoning. Trusting a government to be objective and minimal about such a list is like trusting an elephant to not eat much.
On the other hand, if they want to offer opt-in-only block lists and describe them openly, people could make informed decisions for themselves about what, if anything to block.
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