Chinese Govt. Vs Google

On Thursday, a Chinese official accused Google of spreading obscene content over the internet. The comments came a day after Google.com, Gmail and other Google online services abruptly became inaccessible to many users in China.

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This is the kind of crap that Conroy will be going on with once his filter is in place.

Chinese netizens.

Chinese netizens are fighting back.

China's filter isn't to US taste. Conroy's at it again.

US asks China to drop their filter.


And gamers find out that 15+ games are on Conroy's chopping block too. Despite almost everyone not wanting this Conroy forges on ahead.

There are two types of people in this debate: people who want a filter and people who know that it is an unworkable idea which is pushing against the censorship tide.

People want less censorship. We have tasted a world without the government telling us what to do. Toto has pulled back the curtain. Saying "Ignore the little man behind the curtain" isn't gonna work.

People don't just want Porn

Despite what the religious right would have us believe, the internet isn't awash with porn and people use it to socialise and research.

Much of this functionality will be damaged by the government's attempts to dumb down the internet to a G-Rating.

If people are seeking porn, they aren't seeking it because of the internet, they are seeking it because it is part of their sexual orientation.

Even China is ahead of Conroy

Even the Chinese Communist Party is more liberal minded and democratic than Conroy the puppet of the religious right.

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The Chinese government still has a problem with google allowing the Chinese to find porn.

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Those wacky chinese

I think the picture really sums it up. The internet is full of evil, black... spikey... thingoes that will un-happi-er-fy children.

Riiiiiight.

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China's compulsory filtering software.

China's filtering, in the same guise of protecting children as the Australian government's, will be just as easily abused to block anti-government content such as pictures of Garfield.

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The software has glitches and the communist party doesn't care what it's critics think and is going ahead with it's plan to implement the software regardless... sound familiar (I'm looking at you Conroy).

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Better filter this Conroy

Mr Illingworth retains Michael Byrne, QC

Mr Illingworth has retained Michael Byrne, QC to represent him in Maroochydore court this July. This is a hearing to determine whether the case will go to trial.

Byrne indicated that they will argue that the video is of a Russian circus family. He has similar videos to support this claim.

If Mr Illingworth is committed to trial none of us will be able to safely surf the net. As it is we could be charged for watching the video. With so many blind links on the net who knows what site we are off to next. Mr Illingworth did what most of us would naturally do, ask our peers whether the video was acceptable. It is just that his peers were a group on LiveLeek. As a community they didn't think there was much wrong with it but the police had to come in with their MeatWorld interpretation. Why can't they just leave us the hell alone?

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Finally, they admit they don't know what they are doing.

They don't have a defined outcome. They are just hoping that the technology reveals what is possible and that might be enough. Hopeless!

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Conroy's sex education

This is how he would have all sexual topic presented.