The Guardian are not the story here. Edward Snowden is not the story here.
The story is the gross invasion of innocent people's privacy by the US and UK intelligence services. We must not get distracted by the idiocy of apologists.
Wonder will this make a blind bit of difference to politicians. I very greatly doubt it. After all, the entertainment industries ignore study after study debunking their propaganda.
I ask again, how is blocking a few search terms on a search engine going to stop child abuse content and make children safer? Leaving aside, of course, that this content is already blocked by the BT cleanfeed system.
How, exactly, is blocking search terms on a search engine stopping the problem at the source?
This is nothing but authoritarian hand wringing designed to appease the knuckle dragging morons who read the Daily Mail and the like. It will accomplish nothing.
Let's not forget that the greatest threat to children comes from someone known to the child. The overwhelming majority of cases of child abuse involve a family member, family friend or person of authority abusing their position of trust.
Cameron is focusing on the minority threat while ignoring the majority threat (not that the threat comes from Google anyway), and that will leave children in more danger.
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Edward Snowden is not the story here.
The story is the gross invasion of innocent people's privacy by the US and UK intelligence services. We must not get distracted by the idiocy of apologists.
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Isn't that on all fictional works these days?
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This is forcing a couple of search engines to remove allegedly infringing sites from their search results.
All people have to do is use a different search engine or, better yet, bookmark their favourite site.
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Next, they will be ordering the removal of criminals' phone numbers from the phone book.
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/27/ministers-order-isps-block-terrorist-website s
What I would like to know is who decides what are terrorist or extremist websites.
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You really couldn't make this stuff up.
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Ironically, the material is available elsewhere and deleting them from their own site will only draw people's attention to it.
Pathetic lack of understanding of what the Internet is.
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How, exactly, is blocking search terms on a search engine stopping the problem at the source?
This is nothing but authoritarian hand wringing designed to appease the knuckle dragging morons who read the Daily Mail and the like. It will accomplish nothing.
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Cameron is focusing on the minority threat while ignoring the majority threat (not that the threat comes from Google anyway), and that will leave children in more danger.
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