tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008122447979675819.post5768040118634356695..comments2024-03-15T10:51:18.486+00:00Comments on The Voluptuous Manifesto: Porn is a class issueAmanda Kendalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13753421608510794753noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008122447979675819.post-77339185441567221822013-07-28T12:25:18.879+01:002013-07-28T12:25:18.879+01:00I think there's an unholy alliance here of ant...I think there's an unholy alliance here of anti-porn campaigners and those who can use that campaign for other ends, which they wouldn't want to declare too openly. And for the latter, technological ignorance on the part of the former is advantaegeous.<br /><br />Various sources are now reporting that the government has asked ISPs to 'filter' lost of other 'dodgy' materials, from smoking to alcohol to "esoteric" sites, whatever the hell that means. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall<br /><br />This is wide-ranging censorship on a grand scale and done in a totally underhand way.<br /><br />Perry is a clown, and a pawn in this.Amanda Kendalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753421608510794753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1008122447979675819.post-60049562503659498322013-07-28T08:14:51.250+01:002013-07-28T08:14:51.250+01:00As an example of those who are driving this ridicu...As an example of those who are driving this ridiculous censorship of the internet bus, driving not only blindfold but with no knowledge of how to drive a bus in the first place, we have Claire Perry MP who has been the insistent force behind the campaign and in the Prime Ministers ear constantly.<br /><br />Last week her own web site was hacked and what she described as "pornographic" images embedded into it, word spread fast as it does on the internet and it wasn't long before the blogger Guido Fawkes had screen-grabbed it and stuck it on his Twitter feed and also and posted a link to her site via his own blog instructing readers that he couldn't possibly host the sort of images that Claire Perry was allowing.<br /><br />Claire, in a foot-stomp of Violet Elizabeth Bott standards immediately accused him of hosting the link and sponsoring the hacking of her site, seemingly she thought that the screengrab of her own web site on Twitter was a live link that had been provided by (and therefore hosted by) the Guido Fawkes blog, the comments made on her Twitter feed would certainly be considered for a case of libel by most legal practices and it still remains to be seen whether or not she issues an apology.<br /><br />THIS is the level of technical understanding of the internet that we are dealing with here, we have MPs who are unable to understand the difference between linking to an image and being responsible for hosting that image in the first place, aside from all the hypocrisy of the Daily Mail and its sidebar of shame, are we really happy to leave censorship in the hands of people who don't know their arse from their elbow ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com