British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites 835
An anonymous reader writes "British Telecom has taken the unprecedented step of blocking all illegal child pornography websites in a crackdown on abuse online. The decision by Britain's largest high-speed internet provider will lead to the first mass censorship of the web attempted in a Western democracy."
Re:Typo? (Score:5, Funny)
No. In jolly old Britian, the best we have is 300bps modems. I would write more, but it would take too long to upload.
Britain is no western democracy (Score:2, Funny)
We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major decisions.
Most people don't know this. We chose this system of government because we believe that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. At the end of the day we believe that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.
I hope that clears things up for you all.
Re:Is this a good idea? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is this a good idea? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is this a good idea? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Britain is no western democracy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foot in the door (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Foot in the door (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry, I just had to laugh, that acronym works on so many levels in this context
Re:In Real Life (Score:3, Funny)
No, no, no, and yes. (And the last one doesn't make sense; torture isn't speech).
Stop bullshitting about censorship. This is something totally different.
Right, you're not for censorship, you're just for stopping people from expressing opinions you don't like.
If it's up to me, go get every discriminating, racism-spreading no good website such as www.stormfront.org and take them down!
Then I am very grateful that it is not up to you.