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I hope I'm not the only person who after reading this immediately deleted their browsing history; the thought of the title of this article appearing in my brows

by dawson 18y ago

I hope I'm not the only person who after reading this immediately deleted their browsing history; the thought of the title of this article appearing in my browser/address bar history in front of certain/most people, is cringe worthy. EDIT: To the people down voting me, all I meant was I'm often showing stuff on my laptop to different people and I would be afraid of their assumption if I typed the letter "m" into my address bar and "My Life in Child Porn" popped-up because they might come to the wrong conclusions that's all. Whether their assumption is right or wrong, is irrelevant, I was just saying; it's something I'm aware of and wouldn't want to happen!

unalone 18y ago
So you read somebody's writings about child porn. Does that make you a bad person? Is mentioning the phrase child porn a crime? Is reading the words of a child pornographer wrong? There's nothing wrong in reading an article. Anybody that thinks so is either deluding himself or is twisted in a really awful way. EDIT: Okay, that makes sense. Sorry if it sounds like I was being scoldy.
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- jrockway 18y ago
  Is mentioning the phrase child porn a crime? Well, yeah. Porn is bad, and kids need protecting. Put porn and kids in the same sentence and you have 100% concentrated evil. It is like a mini-9/11, every time you say the words. Do you hate America? I think you should be executed just for thinking about thinking about children. Oh sorry, I was just pretending to be an elected official.
- dawson 18y ago
  No it doesn't make you a bad person, no mentioning the phrase isn't a crime and no reading the words of a child pornographer isn't wrong--in my opinion. However, not everyone shares my opinion and I can't take the attitude that my boss, client or whoever sees it pop-up in my address bar history is deluded or twisted, just because they don't share the same opinion as me.
  - chris11 18y ago
    And filtering/tracking software seems to be pretty naive. So if the network administrator uses tracking software, that article will probably raise a red flag. I would be somewhat surprised if a person thought that this article was inappropriate. But I wouldn't be very surprised if this article got your internet history reviewed. That is at least an invasion of privacy. And I think this would be most likely to happen on a network with a strict internet policy, like at a company. Also, if your history is checked, there is a possibility they will be reviewing how much time you spend on non-work related websites. But I'm probably being somewhat paranoid.
jrockway 18y ago
I would be afraid of their assumption if I typed the letter "m" into my address bar and "My Life in Child Porn" popped-up Why do you value the thoughts of people like this? Someone that is going to dislike you for something in your browser history doesn't sound very thoughtful.
- unalone 18y ago
  A lot of people care more about what people think about them than about what they actually are. (Not saying this about Dawson, but about the sorts of bosses and clients who would be offended by an accidental happening like that.)
  - olefoo 18y ago
    There is also the fact that you need to get along with the other monkeys in your tribe, no matter how neurotic and panicky they may be.
    - unalone 18y ago
      That's why it's very, very important to make sure you've got a good tribe to begin with.
      - randallsquared 18y ago
        But it's very, very costly to switch tribes for most people, so by the time they're thinking about that, it's too late.
        unalone 18y ago
        Costly? Really? Perhaps it takes some time, but the switch itself happens pretty quickly, if people are willing to put up with some hard times as they adjust.
        randallsquared 18y ago
omouse 18y ago
Use Tor to anonymize, and if you're really worried, download Freenet and get someone to post a mirror of the article and read it there.
alecco 18y ago
Oh, no. Many of us read Navokov's Lolita! (or watched the movie.) We should go to jail. Don't fall into hysteria. And try to avoid stupid people who are well into it. Same with terror and drugs. Meanwhile bankers walk away with gigantic bonuses, right below your noses. Also there are tough economic blocks to Cuba and Iran while the US-friendly governments of places like Thailand don't get any trouble at all. I haven't been there but the tales of relatives and what I read are revolting. That's not taking some pictures, that's wholesale slavery, rape, prostitution, and even murder. Why doesn't US media make a reality show on busting US-ians going there for sex vacations? [Disclaimer: I actually got bored with the pseudo-romance drama of Lolita and dropped it after not that many pages. Overrated as hell. But now I know that.]

by dawson 18y ago

unalone 18y ago

So you read somebody's writings about child porn. Does that make you a bad person? Is mentioning the phrase child porn a crime? Is reading the words of a child pornographer wrong? There's nothing wrong in reading an article. Anybody that thinks so is either deluding himself or is twisted in a really awful way. EDIT: Okay, that makes sense. Sorry if it sounds like I was being scoldy.

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jrockway 18y ago
Is mentioning the phrase child porn a crime? Well, yeah. Porn is bad, and kids need protecting. Put porn and kids in the same sentence and you have 100% concentrated evil. It is like a mini-9/11, every time you say the words. Do you hate America? I think you should be executed just for thinking about thinking about children. Oh sorry, I was just pretending to be an elected official.
dawson 18y ago
No it doesn't make you a bad person, no mentioning the phrase isn't a crime and no reading the words of a child pornographer isn't wrong--in my opinion. However, not everyone shares my opinion and I can't take the attitude that my boss, client or whoever sees it pop-up in my address bar history is deluded or twisted, just because they don't share the same opinion as me.
- chris11 18y ago
  And filtering/tracking software seems to be pretty naive. So if the network administrator uses tracking software, that article will probably raise a red flag. I would be somewhat surprised if a person thought that this article was inappropriate. But I wouldn't be very surprised if this article got your internet history reviewed. That is at least an invasion of privacy. And I think this would be most likely to happen on a network with a strict internet policy, like at a company. Also, if your history is checked, there is a possibility they will be reviewing how much time you spend on non-work related websites. But I'm probably being somewhat paranoid.

jrockway 18y ago

I would be afraid of their assumption if I typed the letter "m" into my address bar and "My Life in Child Porn" popped-up Why do you value the thoughts of people like this? Someone that is going to dislike you for something in your browser history doesn't sound very thoughtful.

unalone 18y ago
A lot of people care more about what people think about them than about what they actually are. (Not saying this about Dawson, but about the sorts of bosses and clients who would be offended by an accidental happening like that.)
- olefoo 18y ago
  There is also the fact that you need to get along with the other monkeys in your tribe, no matter how neurotic and panicky they may be.
  - unalone 18y ago
    That's why it's very, very important to make sure you've got a good tribe to begin with.
    - randallsquared 18y ago
      But it's very, very costly to switch tribes for most people, so by the time they're thinking about that, it's too late.
      - unalone 18y ago
        Costly? Really? Perhaps it takes some time, but the switch itself happens pretty quickly, if people are willing to put up with some hard times as they adjust.
        randallsquared 18y ago

omouse 18y ago

Use Tor to anonymize, and if you're really worried, download Freenet and get someone to post a mirror of the article and read it there.

alecco 18y ago

Oh, no. Many of us read Navokov's Lolita! (or watched the movie.) We should go to jail. Don't fall into hysteria. And try to avoid stupid people who are well into it. Same with terror and drugs. Meanwhile bankers walk away with gigantic bonuses, right below your noses. Also there are tough economic blocks to Cuba and Iran while the US-friendly governments of places like Thailand don't get any trouble at all. I haven't been there but the tales of relatives and what I read are revolting. That's not taking some pictures, that's wholesale slavery, rape, prostitution, and even murder. Why doesn't US media make a reality show on busting US-ians going there for sex vacations? [Disclaimer: I actually got bored with the pseudo-romance drama of Lolita and dropped it after not that many pages. Overrated as hell. But now I know that.]