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	<title>Comments on: German Minister Announces Plans for Mandatory Web Filtering</title>
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		<title>By: Burd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Burd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well it took the censors only about twenty years to catch up with the Internet. Before that they were concerned only with books and movies. And it is true that they will succeed in this area about as well as they have with books and movies.

Vladimir Norbekov&#039;s &quot;Lolita&quot; (from which most of the child porn sites borrow for their names) is still readily available in libraries and bookstores in spite of the self-righteous guardians of our morality.

The tactics of these morality police are always the same: pick a position that no one in his/her right mind would disagree with lest s/he risks the wrath of society. In this case it&#039;s child pornography. In the United States in the 1950&#039;s it was the &quot;communists&quot;. Sometime it&#039;s &quot;family values&quot; whatever. It is a &quot;slippery slope.&quot; Is anyone actually that naive to believe that they will stop there? Would an alcoholic stop at only one beer?

These people are controloholics. They&#039;ll go further and further guaranteed.

The good news is that the medium which they are trying to control (the Internet) is ever-changing. Anarchy is its main characteristic. As soon as someone develops something to &quot;control&quot; its use along come others with some things to bypass those controls. 

These control clowns are not even that high tech. They&#039;re going to use &quot;lists.&quot; Tell me who is going to surf the web to find these porn sites to add to the &quot;list&quot;? Sounds to me like the nuns and priests who--when I was a kid--used to go to movies and decide which could be on the &quot;approved&quot; list for good Catholics to watch. Somebody was watching a lot of dirty movies and it wasn&#039;t the parishioners!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it took the censors only about twenty years to catch up with the Internet. Before that they were concerned only with books and movies. And it is true that they will succeed in this area about as well as they have with books and movies.</p>
<p>Vladimir Norbekov&#8217;s &#8220;Lolita&#8221; (from which most of the child porn sites borrow for their names) is still readily available in libraries and bookstores in spite of the self-righteous guardians of our morality.</p>
<p>The tactics of these morality police are always the same: pick a position that no one in his/her right mind would disagree with lest s/he risks the wrath of society. In this case it&#8217;s child pornography. In the United States in the 1950&#8217;s it was the &#8220;communists&#8221;. Sometime it&#8217;s &#8220;family values&#8221; whatever. It is a &#8220;slippery slope.&#8221; Is anyone actually that naive to believe that they will stop there? Would an alcoholic stop at only one beer?</p>
<p>These people are controloholics. They&#8217;ll go further and further guaranteed.</p>
<p>The good news is that the medium which they are trying to control (the Internet) is ever-changing. Anarchy is its main characteristic. As soon as someone develops something to &#8220;control&#8221; its use along come others with some things to bypass those controls. </p>
<p>These control clowns are not even that high tech. They&#8217;re going to use &#8220;lists.&#8221; Tell me who is going to surf the web to find these porn sites to add to the &#8220;list&#8221;? Sounds to me like the nuns and priests who&#8211;when I was a kid&#8211;used to go to movies and decide which could be on the &#8220;approved&#8221; list for good Catholics to watch. Somebody was watching a lot of dirty movies and it wasn&#8217;t the parishioners!</p>
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		<title>By: trekkeriii</title>
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		<dc:creator>trekkeriii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again easily defeated by OpenDNS VPNs and proxy websites. I mean if students can get around school web filters people can get around country&#039;s web filters.

Can we please get these morons proposing these things educated on how the internet works? Because it&#039;s obvious they don&#039;t. They think the internet is just the web.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again easily defeated by OpenDNS VPNs and proxy websites. I mean if students can get around school web filters people can get around country&#8217;s web filters.</p>
<p>Can we please get these morons proposing these things educated on how the internet works? Because it&#8217;s obvious they don&#8217;t. They think the internet is just the web.</p>
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