Hard News: Community standards
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linger, in reply to
what conservative doesn’t hate other people having porn?
To be fair, they're not all total hypocrites:
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Ross Mason, in reply to
To be fair, they’re not all total hypocrites:
This guy Weiner is doing a pretty good job of being one.
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If you figure out what a 'proxy' is, then you can watch all the overseas-hosted content you want while bypassing filters altogether. Ironically, the people most likely to figure it out are the generation that David Cameron would claim to be protecting. Basically, this bill will be most effective in protecting middle-aged luddites from porn.
Case in point: porn is illegal here in South Korea but students and friends seem to have no trouble acquiring and/or viewing porn whenever they want - torrents and proxies give you unfettered access to everything the Japanese (and global) internet has to offer. Young people are technologically dextrous enough to get around the limited hurdles that legislation can place in their way, which means the only people effectively 'blocked' are the very demographic who are complaining. It's amusing, and a great way of being seen as conservative while achieving absolutely nothing (apart from protecting technologically illiterate middle-aged people from hardcore porn).
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Coca Cola doesn't want to be set down beside penetration close-ups, no matter how they're curated.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
The British approach to porn is just fucking hopeless.
Steady chaps. Emotional female in the area. Appears to be on the verge of ranting. Hold steady, don't make eye contact. Twirl mustache and stare at curtains, and on my command, Repress! Repress! Repress!
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BenWilson, in reply to
apart from protecting technologically illiterate middle-aged people from hardcore porn
Except they can just watch their DVDs and old videos, and Super 8s, and read their dirty mags. There's only hundreds of millions of those floating around in the UK already.
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Loosely related: censorship a little closer to home:
“The OFLC decision says that the film may be ‘injurious to the public good’ if it goes out on a wider release. It’s saying that the POV nature of the film mixed with the psychopathic behaviour of actor Elijah Wood is more thandisturbing, that it’s potentially dangerous in the hands of the wrong person (that is, a non-festival goer). It’s only my opinion but I simply don’t agree with this decision,” says Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson.
“I can see the thought process behind it but I think it’s rather big leap to make. I think it’s interesting to see where the OFLC draws a line on this dangerous POV material because it could also segue into a discussion about the graphically realistic and violent first-person video games,” says Timpson.
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their dirty mags. There's only hundreds of millions of those floating around in the UK already.
They tend to grow well in their traditional cultivation areas of patches of woodland and abandoned buildings. This years crop has been especially strong, probably due to the hot summer weather.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Buy polar?
Nope. Just swallowed a magnet and now, no matter which way they turn, their compass points up their arse.
Aaaah! that explains why we have 'pole-ing booths'...
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Why is depression on the list?
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steve black, in reply to
Depression...
Good question. Perhaps because of its association with weather forecasts? That makes as much sense as everything else I've seen among those who would save humanity from biology...themselves...whatever.
The serious answer (read guess) is that there might be a statistical association between the presence of depression as a tag and other things they want to block like: suicide, gay, lesbian, etc. No real association of course in terms of content and meaning. Just the frequency with which certain combinations of tags occur. Block an apparently related (but actually quite innocuous) tag and you get a higher kill rate...of the wrong things (at the level of meaning). But your blocking stats look good.
This has been a fun read. Thanks to all of you for the nice links. Unlike some of you I did have to go and look up some terms. I lead a sheltered life.
Anybody remember when a certain fast food chain brought in free wireless and blocked sites which were there to help support gay and lesbian teenagers?
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Thanks Steve.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Ms. Naughty has a post on Tumblr’s pornocalypse, from the point of view of a commercial pornographer who’s just started using Tumblr and finds it… problematic.
And she has a point – I hadn’t even thought about 2557 records. But I don’t think a Ms. Naughty Tumblr with links back to her commercial site would be a problem at all. It’d still be quite clearly hers.
What she says is a more informed take on what had occurred to me wrt the Tumblr scrap: if you drive porn out of all the good places, it will only be in the bad places.
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Elsewhere, The Guardian's Deborah Orr has a spectacularly clueless, patronizing column (h/t Emma) that seems to have escaped from the Daily Mail.
Louise Mensch, the former conservative MP, bless her heart, has voiced her worry that the possible banning of rape simulation footage will ruin the fun of half of all women, who commonly enjoy rape fantasies. This is indeed a worry. I wouldn't know where to begin, conjuring up a rape fantasy from my sadly inadequate imagination, if I hadn't seen a useful film to inspire me beforehand. We wouldn't want the human imagination to be left to run riot, when technology can provide off-the-peg non-consensual sex. (Anyway, it seems that prose will be excluded from these as-yet-imaginary filters, so women will still be able to pick up some useful tips on fictional rape. Hurrah.)
So much wrong packed into one little paragraph, and there's worse...
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Not mislaid, lost. Permanently. Long ago.
Or should that be 'willingly thrown out'?
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