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"Summer of Surveillance" This should be on a T-shirt. Maybe borrowing the backdrop to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album and cross it with the digital ra
by eksith 13y ago
"Summer of Surveillance"
This should be on a T-shirt. Maybe borrowing the backdrop to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album and cross it with the digital rain form The Matrix. ;)
- est 13y agoThis is not surveillance, it's out right censorship. Technically, censoring porn is no different from censoring anything else. It's only a matter of time for politicians to abuse this power.
- nly 13y ago> This is not surveillance, it's out right censorship. Of course it's surveillance, you think this system doesn't log hits? At this point you have to expect a database query can return what porn sites you're visiting and when.
- alexchamberlain 13y agoSurveillance works better as a saying though.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoThey're blacklisting sites but you don't have to have the filter on your connection. Doesn't censorship require that someone prevent you, or indeed impede you from seeing something. TalkTalk just ask you [ie the person who pays the ISP] if you want to be filtered or not. Perhaps they also filter illegal sites, use of a list from the IWF was mentioned, but who's going to know.
- est 13y agoPorn site 101: every site will constantly change its IP and provide alternative domains to avoid been blocked. Thus if UK need to cut out porn sites completely, they have to implement some kind of keywords based system, which is 100% what a censorship firewall is.
- eksith 13y agoAre keyword based firewalls really all that effective? What if someone's researching classical art and searched for "nude"? Surely, that will cause a fair amount of hair-pulling to deactivate the filter in public access locations like libraries and such.