Majority?
> For non-internet users, the majority (33 per cent) of respondents said
Cough. 33% is not actually a majority. :-)
Posts by George-Cristian Birzan
5 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Sep 2008
Most Americans without broadband don't want it
Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history
Wednesday 14th January 2009 20:52 GMT
@jason
> Im sorry but again so out of perspective.. have you been locked away in a cell? have you been put under house arrest? no. you have not been able to browse to a couple of web pages.. is that a price im willing to pay to help try an stop child porn? your damn right i am.
That sums it up perfectly. You are. I'm not.
Most child pornography is still accessible, I would say, so for this ellusive Holy Grail, you're willing to sacrifice your freedom (and, more importantly, mine), handing it out to a group of people that are unaccountable and that are known to have even the least of common sense. (Come on. Banning the album cover on Wikipedia? There are a billion other sources for the image
> We were not a massive ISP but saw on average 300 attempts a day to access banned urls
Were all those sites child pornography sites?
Wednesday 14th January 2009 19:36 GMT 
@jason
And them being policemen gives them the right to be judge, jurry and (to some extent) executioner? There is no peer review of their 'screening' process, even their list is private. I have nothing against censoring child pornography, but why have everything behind closed doors?
You're misunderstanding our outrage. We are not outraged they screwed up. We are outraged they are doing this censorship behind closed doors, in a way designed not to be transparent. This is why the police doesn't have a carte blanche for kicking in doors, listening to phone conversations (erm, well, except if you're a terrorist :-( ) and all that. This is just a slippery slope, in my opinion...
Imagine they wanted to censor, for whatever reason, theregister. They could do it (yes, not them as such, but the ISPs that use their 'services', but in my book, they're just as guilty), and only a handful of people have the technical knowledge to go around the methods currently used (though, El Reg's audience might actually have a chance... but that's beside the point).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
