Armitage Shanks said:
On top of that, how is it not an attack on rights? While I'm not going to be out in the street with my 2+2=5 placard hurling molotovs at government buildings, its also pretty clear that having a secret list of blockable sites hidden from the public, and punishing anyone who publishes said list with $10,000 fines is an attack on individuals rights.
They're not on some secret list; they're publicised and they're mainly child porn sites and other sites of similar ilk. Whoop-dee-doo. I'm really feeling badly treated that fat fappers can't look at kids getting raped anymore.
Anyway, I lived with Chinese site blocks for years; it's not as bad as one might think. Wikipedia sometimes got blocked, and so did youtube, but it's a
good thing that wikipedia got blocked - peice of crap source finds it's way into too many little kid's essays and gives them a get-out-of-jail-free card for not studying hard - and they had three sites that did exactly what youtube did, without airing bullshit sensationalist crap. And who cares if CNN gets cut out? Consider media's machinations for a while and you might find out that the people who own those stations don't care about the news, they run their news like an hour long commercial and get their ratings that way. There is no contemporary news story that lacks spin.
I don't care if Gears of War is banned - kiss my ass FPSers that game's a vicious pile of crap. I don't care if the next game to depict extreme violence gets banned - maybe then Australia's youth won't turn into the German, or USA stereotype kids who gunned down fellow students and crap and the future.
I also don't care if some gay internet comic gets banned - that and I hope 4chan gets banned. I'm sure that a year or so after those people got stripped of their respective opiates then they'll think the same thing: "Eh, it was a waste of life anyway, sitting on the computer 24/7"
I hate the internet, it makes people think they have some kind of right, some kind of say, when they've done fuck all to deserve it. Work hard at studies, makes lots of friends, get elected to office and make a difference, but don't think you have any say in the way things are run because you spend all your daylight hours with your chode in ur hand.
(God that was fun to write lol)