Internet censorship bills currently working their way into law in the UK, Australia and the U.S. legislate for government powers to restrict and filter any website that it deems to be undesirable for public consumption.
In the UK, legislation slated as the “Digital Economy Bill“, currently being debated in the House of Lords, would allow the Home Secretary to place “a technical obligation on internet service providers” to block whichever sites it wishes.'
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I have been going into these "undesirable" sites for quite a few years now. I noticed, after Bush Baby came into power a LOT of sites I visited suddenly disappeared. Taking or forbidding access is bad enough.
ReplyDeleteBut they have another dirty trick. They imbed viruses or trojans into the code and next thing you know your pc is sick. We have all seen this in the future. There are a few other things to watch.
They also have a programme that will pick up various words that they deem questionable for one reason or another. Words like "anti semitic" or what not. That is a prime reason I avoid the main of places like facebook etc.
However, Aus and Canada are on the same schedule so I imagine we have it already. Yanno, I am getting tired of threat after threat after threat from these butt heads.
Happy Xmas to the sneaky Sen Conroy in Australia and the other sneaks elsewhere,
ReplyDeletel hope they are flooded with Xmas emails and faxes from people around the world who don't engage in the Xmas nonsense to much or not at all with one eye peeled.