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| Skreename Posts: 291/1427 |
I don't think that's possible on current televisions, and I can see a MASSIVE decline in television watching if such a thing comes to pass causing everyone to get a new TV.
Actually, seeing as the actual cable (and satellite) providers tend to get more money directly from the customers than from advertisers, it seems rather unlikely to come to pass. |
| Cruel Justice Posts: 1078/1637 |
What next? You're caught with a porno pop-up and your hand gets chopped off?
I've heard of similar articles about these ludicrous restrictions... one of them involves television. Enjoy the luxury of flipping past commercials while you still can. It's rumored that advertising agents will do this. When a commercial break comes up, the channel will freeze so you'll have to wait until the show returns before you can flip the channel. Customers will have to pay an additional fee to flip past those cheesy ads. |
| Skreename Posts: 277/1427 |
Wow... that system in Turkmenistan sounds REALLY harsh...
At any rate, the article is complaining about a loss of privacy in places in which "privacy" doesn't exist, anyway. It's irritating, yes, but expected. |
| DarkSlaya Posts: 581/936 |
Originally posted by HyperMackerelOriginally posted by Coby And I actually read his whole story. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 1920/5072 |
Originally posted by Coby Ah, I didn't get that far before it redirected me. |
| Cynthia Posts: 2474/5814 |
Egypt, Libya, the Maldives, Syria, Tunisia, China, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam
Out of those countries, the only ones that surprise me are Egypt and Tunisia... I mean, they're not perfect countries but politically might be a little more stable than, I dunno, the handful of communist countries listed in there (or the isolationists in the case of the North Koreans). |
| Cruel Justice Posts: 1071/1637 |
Yeah, those were the cuckoo countries listed in that article. North Korea was communist, I'm not surprised by it's net censorship. I agree with Danielle, I doubt it will hit the US. |
| Coby Posts: 82/123 |
Originally posted by HyperMackerel Read the text, that guy named "Jon" noticed that the contact information with wich the site was registered was not real, so he mailed the whoever hosted that site and got it kicked offline, then he re-registered that site under his contact information. |
| blackhole89 Posts: 113/427 |
We actually have a perfect global pre-3rd Reich situation right there.
Economical stagnation. Diffuse "threats" that are quickly blown up by politicians ("International Terrorism" nowadays, "The Jews and Communists" back then). People being not content with the results of democracy. A call for "return to old values". People willing to trade social and technological progress for safety. Most arguments that were brought up by the Nazis when they cut press freedom, like governments are attempting to cut internet information exchange freedom nowadays, interestingly are very similar to those of today. Also, lesser countries with liberal internet policies won't make up much against the fact that the largest countries all have released far-going internet supervision laws to "fight terrorism". Right now, a ban on encryption for VoIP is in discussion in Germany, for instance, after they passed a law that forces VoIP providers to redirect all conversations over their relays and keep them stored for 6 months or something to make them available to police and anti-terror agencies. The situation is more critical than one might think. Only it will be too late when the mass of the people recognizes there were no terrorists in their AIM buddylist. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 1913/5072 |
Let's see if these censors apply in Canada. 
Originally posted by ThayerOriginally posted by Wurl I see this site fine (and laugh at their use of a radio button when there's only one item to select), but... Originally posted by Wurl I don't know what to make of this.  The logo says "hacked, tracked and 0wned by the USA", there's a lot of text, and after about 10 seconds it redirects me to some other site. |
| Deleted User Posts: 117/-7750 |
Thayer, I was making a joke... |
| Deleted User Posts: 330/-7750 |
Originally posted by WurlOriginally posted by ThayerOriginally posted by Wurl The first one looks like a spoof Web site. Couldn't look at the other one, but I doubt they'd use such an obvious Web site address.  |
| Wurl Posts: 765/842 |
Originally posted by ThayerOriginally posted by Wurl Wow, I tried in 2002 or 2003 and the site was blocked. It may have changed recently; I know Al-Jazeera was picked up for satellite TV recently. At least Al-Qaeda site is still censored. The alternate site, too |
| Deleted User Posts: 329/-7750 |
Originally posted by ||EyeL E Ss|| Which one of the countries do you live in? |
| Deleted User Posts: 111/-7750 |
Ooh, that sucks for us men................  |
| Deleted User Posts: 327/-7750 |
Originally posted by Wurl No hypen, Wurl. |
| Wurl Posts: 764/842 |
I dunno, a bill to "protect children from pornography" was recently passed, which could lead to further censorship. And, if you didn't know, the U.S. already blocks "terrorist websites" such as Al-Jazeera.com |
| Danielle Posts: 3551/6737 |
I think it's fine here.
And... yeah, what thayer said. Those countries don't really surprise me. For the United States, at least, I very seriously doubt this will ever happen. |
| Deleted User Posts: 324/-7750 |
Okay, I don't mean to seem terse. But OLD NEWS. Look at the countries who are doing this:
Egypt, Libya, the Maldives, Syria, Tunisia, China, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam Is it any real surprise that they would censor the Internet before it hits their citizens' browsers? I mean come on, these countries aren't necessarily known to be gigantic pillars of personal freedom and liberty for all. Edit: Ugh and I'm not sure, but I bet this goes in World Affairs. Edit 2: I meant to type "pillars", not "towers". Feh. |
| Randy53215 Posts: 185/726 |
Net censorship spreads worldwide
Discuss this.... now.  |
