German parliament passes filter bill

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited June 2009 in Science & Tech

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    A warning page? That's it? It doesn't stop you from viewing the content?

    What in the Sam Hill are you really complaining about, Germany?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    That's it. Just a warning.
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    *Sam Hill
  • MAGICMAGIC Doot Doot Furniture City, Michigan Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Just that the government is filtering their information makes me appreciate living in America, for the time being...
  • KoreishKoreish I'm a penguin, deal with it. KCMO Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    If you really want unfiltered information you should move to Finland. According to the World Press Freedom Committee they have the least restrictions on media.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Kippis!

    Ja, ja. Suomi on suuri
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited June 2009
    I'm still for it. I mean c'mon, it's child pornography. But I can see why people wold be up in arms about filtering it. I just don't think virtual reality laws have progressed as far as laws governing us in the streets.
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Komete wrote:
    I just don't think virtual reality laws have progressed as far as laws governing us in the streets.

    This is very true. They have progressed even further...Try googling all the words China censors. Currently they have upwards of 50 people in jail for using the internet.

    I fully believe controlling what people can and can't look at on the internet is the first step into full control of a country....


    Filtering doesn't do any good. If they filter child porn sites, then the sick wackos can't look at it and if they can't look at it they can't be charged....

    I think this will just force them underground......


    [No offence ment to anyone, just looking at this from a logical point of view...]
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited June 2009
    Mr TRiot

    The only way to enforce what you are describing would be to monitor websites and record user IP information to later go and track them down to prosecute. That would be a far more dangerous road to travel.

    There is always going to be sicko's, the question is how to protect the victims.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Name one country with a content filter that doesn't infringe on civil liberties or go beyond its proposed scope.

    You can't.
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Name one country with a content filter that doesn't infringe on civil liberties or go beyond its proposed scope.

    You can't.

    ^this

    It's an unfortunate truth, no matter how you look at it.
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