Stop Internet censorship in SA

We can't even police all the murders and rapes in SA... and they want the cops to start wasting their time on this?
 
Arthur said:
There are some things that are utterly beyond the pale and should be censored. Children in porn for a start.
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You honestly think our government will stop there?

Media censorship is easy. As is hiding Nkandla.
 
Arthur said:
There are some things that are utterly beyond the pale and should be censored. Children in porn for a start.
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There are obvious things that should be censored, however what they are proposing goes VERY beyond that.

An example will be the end of anonymity on open forums such as MyBB.
 
Child porn is always the first thing to come up in a censorship debate.... You don't need to censor it, you just need to arrest the people watching and distribting it
 
Another hair brained scheme by the ANC. The sooner JZ disappears for good, The friken better!
 
Arthur said:
There are some things that are utterly beyond the pale and should be censored. Children in porn for a start.
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Because child pornographers are likely to register and submit content for review?
 
Arthur said:
There are some things that are utterly beyond the pale and should be censored. Children in porn for a start.
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Which has been a crime since the 1980s/1970s in Europe and USA, 1990s in Russia and 2014 in Japan.

All in all it's being eliminated and new material if such exists is being caught out. The whole "Freedom Hosting" sting a year or so ago took out much of that.

But this, this is about censoring comments such as your own. If you want to post on MyBB you'll have to register as a "distributor".
 
Meanwhile, in 21st C Great Britain an adult human being is suspended and publicly excoriated for using a taboo word that in cognate form is the name of two countries.
 
Nerfherder said:
Child porn is always the first thing to come up in a censorship debate.... You don't need to censor it, you just need to arrest the people watching and distribting it
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yes
it is critical in what it is coming to be very clear on this - child sexual abuse images involve criminality and are distinct from issues such as the exposure of children to pornography (very much an issue but not a criminal one)

a lot of the problems here are being caused by vague definitions and a lack of understanding of the differences between the way content moves online as opposed to offline (where the FPB has traditionally operated vs. 320 hrs of video uploaded to youtube every minute) - so it may be more their intention here to say that content available through a video-on-demand service should bear classification in the same way as content available from a dvd store

this draft policy is open for comment until 8 July....
 
Arthur said:
Meanwhile, in 21st C Great Britain an adult human being is suspended and publicly excoriated for using a taboo word that in cognate form is the name of two countries.
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Are you referring to Clarkson?

Sounds like you are both presenting a straw-man, and defending the uncouth lout.
 
scudsucker said:
Are you referring to Clarkson?

Sounds like you are both presenting a straw-man, and defending the uncouth lout.
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Huh? You extract these meanings? I don't think you have the first clue what a straw man argument is. And how on earth do you turn an allusion to Clarkson into a defence? Spectacular leaps.

My point is simply that those who make calls for freedom of speech (on the internet, say) often quite happily also endorse speech codes that are in effect indistinguishable from censorship.
 
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Arthur said:
Huh? You extract these meanings? I don't think you have the first clue what a straw man argument is. And how on earth do you turn an allusion to Clarkson into a defence? Spectacular leaps.

My point is simply that those who make calls for freedom of speech (on the internet, say) often quite happily also endorse speech codes that are in effect indistinguishable from censorship.
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UK does not have true freedom of expression though. Then again people in the US also get fired for unpopular opinions.
 
Indeed. The UK's much-vaunted tradition of free speech is severely compromised.

On this very topic, I have just finished reading the feature articles in my print version of The New Criterion - looking at the state of free speech in the Anglosphere and the West generally. You can find an online version here. This is one of the best journals in English, and I devour every issue cover-to-cover.
 
Few things are more obscene and damaging to children (and everyone) and deserving of censure than these draft regulations from the FPB.
 
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