*Poll: Should there be a liscense to use the Internet? *read before voting
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Your address should be public knowledge as part of the deal. That should put a stop to the 'keyboard warriors'. I'm slightly biased though because I'm huge and Glaswegian.
You do realize at this stage and age it is, right? Internet has essentially replaced Television, Books, and the Social Medium in a way no other medium has, so yes, it is serious business considering it is part of our life, and big one too.Mr Shrike said:Yes, the internets is serious business.
Great point.Exterminas said:
I don't understand this. Because people were dicks and didn't respect someone they'll never know or have contact with you believe their internet access should be revoked? I highly doubt anyone affected by the natural disasters in Japan is reading those random facebook pages and is offended by that. I think they have more pressing matters. People have a right to be dicks in America.
It's a privilege. It should be able to be revoked. Though I don't see issuing Internet licenses as practical.
Your right to be a dick in public can't be revoked, see the West Baptist church. I don't see why the internet should be different. I don't support people being dicks but I support their right to be dicks. (Okay, the WBC go too far, but unfortunately we can't stop them legally)SkyrimOrBust said:
"I may not agree with what you have to say but I'll defend your right to say it until the day I die"
Oh boo hoo. Some mean people said offensive things. Suck it up. If you can't handle a few offensive remarks, you don't belong on the internet, much less anywhere in public. The world is full of pricks. The strongest thing you can do is ignore them and move along. But we shouldn't be restricting things like the internet just because of mean people. A person who wants to live THAT sheltered won't last a day in the outside world. You gotta toughen up, it's good for you.
Stop. Do not put me on probation for this post. If you're actually offended by this, you are one of the aforementioned people who need to toughen up. Reality is not all hugs and rainbows. Now drop and give me 50.
Stop. Do not put me on probation for this post. If you're actually offended by this, you are one of the aforementioned people who need to toughen up. Reality is not all hugs and rainbows. Now drop and give me 50.
It is not a privilege, it is a right. The internet is just millions of computers linked together. A person should be able to connect to that network freely. In order for it to be a privilege that can be taken away, somebody has to own it. But nobody can own the internet.SkyrimOrBust said:
The internet differs from something like WBC (those bastards) in the way that WBC has beliefs that they choose to undertake, and while I do not support their right to be dicks I acknowledge it. The internet allows people to not only stand by something in which they believe, but also allows them to basically be deviants in which they do not stand by any kind of personal feeling but simply as a scam to offend as many people as possible.Bags159 said:
Such as...
http://ssnat.com/
For all you know they don't actually believe anything that they stand for and are doing it for shits and giggles. So yes, it's very easy to "basically be deviants in which [you] do not stand by any kind of personal feeling" in real life.SkyrimOrBust said:
That's what I meant when I posted it. I didn't mean it as if they didn't stand for anything is what makes them a deviant, it's that they have no purpose to their actions other than to offend people. WBC are jackasses but they actually believe in their cause, which I can respect only to the point of allowing them to feel this way.Bags159 said:
Oh dear god.
Here's my opinion in brief:
You're serious advocating a government organization monitoring what everyone does on the internet by regulating internet usage as well as putting the power to decide who has access to information in the hands of some organization that can arbitrarily deny usage by saying "not mature" to anyone. This is spitting int he eye of the ideals of the first amendment and squashing freedom of information into nothing just because you want to try and oust an personally undesirable element from the internet. Oh, so, so wrong. Being on a free and unregulated system like the internet necessitates that great good and great stupid can be done. If we try to confine either then we destroy both. Having the freedom to say something good means also having the freedom to be an idiot. You can't put rules on freedom. Just let the pricks say what they will, feel bad for someone so blindly ignorant and move on.
Here's my opinion in brief:
You're serious advocating a government organization monitoring what everyone does on the internet by regulating internet usage as well as putting the power to decide who has access to information in the hands of some organization that can arbitrarily deny usage by saying "not mature" to anyone. This is spitting int he eye of the ideals of the first amendment and squashing freedom of information into nothing just because you want to try and oust an personally undesirable element from the internet. Oh, so, so wrong. Being on a free and unregulated system like the internet necessitates that great good and great stupid can be done. If we try to confine either then we destroy both. Having the freedom to say something good means also having the freedom to be an idiot. You can't put rules on freedom. Just let the pricks say what they will, feel bad for someone so blindly ignorant and move on.
