Internet Censorship, scary prospect!

[SouthernComfort]

Most just don't know or understand, if you can encourage a few to ask questions job done. Like you said, it will take something drastic to happen before people take notice. Pretty sure most people aren't aware of the filters already in place.

[Grizz]

good point chroma but you said it all in your last line mate, politicians dont give a toss about what the voter thinks.

[chroma]

good point chroma but you said it all in your last line mate, politicians dont give a toss about what the voter thinks.

I've used the whole situation to have some decent phone calls of late, may 5th is coming up and the local elections are running, I keep getting phoned up asking to vote for whomever and merely respond with
"is the office address still [whatever]?"
"eerr yes..."
"Good and as for [mr/mrs whomever] is their email address still [whatever]"
"emmm yes?"
"GREAT! is the phone number still [xxxxxxxx]?"
"of course why?"
"no reason im just pondering why someone begging me for my vote has absolutely NO INTEREST in answering any of my correspondence, or putting forward my voice on any issues I feel strongly about. Answer me why I should vote for someone who clearly doesn't represent "the people" and I'll gladly vote [whomever] into office. Until such times offer [whomever] my apologies and wish him better luck in four years time."

Its funny how quiet the other end of the line goes.

[Dandeman77]

Omg no!! 1984 is coming

[SouthernComfort]

"The UK has more CCTV cameras per capita than any European country, yet figures released in July 2009 by the European Commission and United Nations showed Britain's recorded rate of violent crime surpassed any other country in Europe."

You don't watch Big Brother.........

Hey Dan, nice reference.

[Canker_Canison]

Reading on the Great Firewall of China, they do not seem to block VPN that is based outside of China, Tor is fully active and they appear to have no intention of stopping it. The "technology" appears impractical, quote from Wikipedia:

"The government does not appear to be systematically examining Internet content, as this appears to be technically impractical."

Now if China can not complete this task, not sure how good the UK would be at it. Also as we all know, these sort of things spawn a new generation of hackers who will spend their free time finding flaws and vulnerabilities to publish to the communities.

But our government tends to take a very draconian view of everything it doesn't understand. So if these experts come back with 'It's not possible to do this', the government will then look at blocking everything from outside the UK & set up a way for external sites/commercial companies to gain access to the UK interweb.

It's going to take a huge media campaign to do anything to stop this. But since most of them are running the government anyway.....

[podgey]

This would be a bad move if it happens!

[smokin]

Naaw....as the ground rules change, so does the fabric. I use a VPN account ALL the time....OpenVpn is best right now...and it will evolve as the Politicos try to change....this movement will not stop....too many smart people out in the world today, and none of of work for gouverment...

Get in now, grab a decent paid vpn account ( openvpn) and they will think the problem does not exist...

[thered]

The government is currently consulting ISPs on plans to create a kind of Great British Firewall to block sites accused of copyright infringement. The Act permits such injunctions for sites where "a substantial amount of material has been, is being or is likely to be obtained in infringement of copyright". Could that mean a search engine, a whistle-blowing site like Wikileaks or a user generated content site such as YouTube? Maybe.
It's enough to worry Google, certainly: when the Act was being finalised, Google expressed its concerns that the Act's site-blocking amendments were "introduced 24 hours before a crucial vote in the House of Lords, without a full debate over whether such a policy is right in principle," and argued that "blocking through injunction creates a high risk that legal content gets mistakenly blocked, or that people abuse the system."
BT and TalkTalk are currently mulling over the verdict and whether they will appeal. If they don't, Gary Marshall has a suggestion: get Google to buy the entire music business. "Which would you rather see?" he asks. "Google-owned record labels, or an internet where you can only see what record labels say you can see?"


China anyone?

Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/intern...#ixzz1KJRfjzmt

america are trying to pass a similar thing through congress

it should be protested in parlaiment we are supposed to have a freedom in this country to choose the screening of internet sites will be a major blow to a lot of people

[SouthernComfort]

america are trying to pass a similar thing through congress

it should be protested in parlaiment we are supposed to have a freedom in this country to choose the screening of internet sites will be a major blow to a lot of people

So much legislation passes through Parliament with very little public scrutiny, this is an important issue, just hope people take notice.

[ricz]

Goverment are trying to be everyones nanny's, we can think and make decisions for ourselfs. Politicians think they know whats good for us, but they are way out of touch with the common citizen.

[SouthernComfort]

Hope everyone's ready, here it comes.

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BT admits misleading customers over Phorm experiments ? The Register
(Article dated 2008)

[lagerland]

Looks like r giving talk talk a miss then...........

[oneman]

"The UK has more CCTV cameras per capita than any European country, yet figures released in July 2009 by the European Commission and United Nations showed Britain's recorded rate of violent crime surpassed any other country in Europe."

You don't watch Big Brother.........

Hey Dan, nice reference.

CCTV does not prevent crime, its there to help capture intelligence information and catch criminals after the event.

[SouthernComfort]

CCTV does not prevent crime, its there to help capture intelligence information and catch criminals after the event.

Which in turn should reduce crime rates, no?
Like speed cameras reduce road accidents and deaths.