Posts by Not Fred31 129 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Sep 2009
Game set and match to the big ISPs who have managed to produce a situation where government applauds and demands interferences in traffic and the introduction and use of invasive anti-net neutrality tools. Of course the government won't actually cotton on until it is too late. Idiots.
If a single EU law would undermine rights, would it do so more than the complete abject failure to implement data protection legislation in the UK at the moment? If he cares so much about rights being undermined, where are his proposals to beef up the toothless, gumless, jawless ICO?
I thought child porn was blocked because it was easier than dealing with the real problem.
And if child porn is blocked because of the harm it does children, what about blocking of websites in the Digital Economy Act? Do IPR infringements hurt cuddly bunnies?
It is absurd. Definition of "computer data": ""computer data" means any representation of facts, information or concepts in a form suitable for processing in a computer system.
The sound of a cow mooing in a field is suitable for processing in a computer system, you just need to point a microphone at it.
It is amazing that Austria capitulated. The EU Commissioner responsible fought against the Directive when she was a parliamentarian. She then went on to become a Minister in the Swedish government, which chose not to implement the Directive. Now she's an EU Commissioner who suddenly believes the Directive is essential! Pathetic and sad in equal measures.
"Apart from the occasional hoo-hah for blocking Wikipedia it does a reasonable job."
Reasonable?
Does it take the websites offline?
Does it identify the victims?
Does it identify the abusers?
Does it arrest and prosecute the abusers?
Does it stop anyone who has a modicum of technical knowledge that can work around the block?
Reasonable job? Really?
The ITU had a reason for existing in the past - it harmonised telephone numbering, <selfcensorship>but it is not entirely blameless</selfcensorship> in much of the corruption in the telecoms world. Even today it shamelessly offers "cash for access" to decision-makers on its website.
If the ITU disappeared tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
As it is not possible to comment on Orlowski's posts, I felt I should point out to El Reg that his story on the Council of Europe is completely factually wrong. It was the Council of Europe (47 Member States - human rights focussed) that adopted the net neutrality recommendation. It was not the EU, it was not the EU's Council of Ministers (27 Member states, economy focussed). The whole article is sheer 'nads. I've tried to explain this to him before - his responses was "they're all the same".
Please buy some real journalists - and not idiots whose heads are so far up their own backsides they could lick their own tonsils.
"It never fails to amaze me just how many High Street household names are now prepared to exploit the disgusting 'paedophile pound'."
1. Why on earth would paedophiles want children to wear clothes to make them look older and more developed?
2. If paedophiles are buying clothes for children, there is a far bigger problem than the fact that they would be buying inappropriate clothing.
3. Why do "child protection" "experts" not have to ever have to live up to basic standards of common sense?
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