UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts
lol
tears posted:pornography is fucked up shit that demonstrates the sadistic nature of our capitalist society, peace out
tell us more about your pray away the gay campaign, Senator
tpaine posted:hehe goat there's a lil smudge on my monitor and it lined up right over hillary's mouth and she had a hitler stache before i scrolled. well, see ya.
Deeply problematic.
tpaine posted:hehe goat there's a lil smudge on my monitor and it lined up right over hillary's mouth and she had a hitler stache before i scrolled. well, see ya.
how often do you smear chocolate on your screen and just leave it up there. do you chisel it off once you accumulate enough like some kind of sadbrains version of chocolate drizzled on a cold plate
tpaine posted:i'm just going to unplug this computer and throw it right out the window.
no don't, a stray dog could lick up all that chocolate and get sick 
i've booked a plane ticket to come down to florida and immerse your monitor in windex for you. if i get stood up i will be SO MAD
Keven posted:Hey all, Keven Sexman here. Let's talk about pornos.
As a 30 year old incel, I denounce pornography and definitely do not use it
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:i've never seen a porno with a guy punching a naked crying woman what kind of freak shit are you into getfiscal
Glad you asked - I'm exclusively into flying to London to watch videos of naked crying women getting punched and I don't have to hide this anymore now that Trump is president.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts
forgot to make joke about whether they have a specific provision against fucking a dead pig. close thread
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/technology/your-entire-internet-history-to-be-viewable-by-psni-taxman-dwp-and-food-standards-agency-and-other-government-bodies-within-weeks-35242522.html
Your entire internet history to be viewable by PSNI, taxman, DWP and Food Standards Agency and other government bodies within weeks
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:once again suppressing porno is the excuse to squash freedom
Conversely do you have to defend pornography to defend internet freedom?
Answer: No.
If you want to read the bill it's here --> Digital Economy Bill 2016-2017
If you read the bill the pornography section is concerned with validation of the age of the person accessing the content. It does not specify any of the prohibitions regarding the content; rather it specifies that the British Board of Film Classification will be responsible for the implementation of the age verification system. The hypothesis is that the BBFC will apply the laws that already exist in the UK to restrict access to content on the internet. The fact is that ISPs have already been required to block lots of content since 2013/2014, some of which users could "opt-out" from. This section in question is concerned only with Age Verification of the customer.
Additional sections are concerned with other matters... such as establishing legal right to minimum download speed, penalise ISP's that do not comply with regulations and oblige them to pay compensation to customers, copyright infringement, penalties for telemarketing/etc, giving Ofcom oversight of the BBC and simplifying regulation regarding mobile masts.
The main concern for citizens, as you point out, is the information sharing that is enshrined within the bill. This is problematic, but let's not fall into the trap of acting as if defending pornography is the frontline of the battle, or that it is conservative anti-porn politicians that are pushing this through. The reality is a lot more mundane than this, but the press (especially the British press) loves to talk about sex.
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This has been in the works for a while as the previous legislation "Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014" (DRIPA) expires at the end of this year. Which was itself meant to replace the IPA of 2000 (which the ECHR had declared unlawful).
So it's not exactly new; the point is to enable lower government bodies to access this information in a way that it can be used to prosecute people and also offload some of the work by requiring the ISPs and even extraterritorial and cloudbased services be responsible for the data retention and database querying. The bill even expands to cover private networks, not just public telecoms; though I'm not sure how that will work in practice.
Anyway... if you live in the UK good luck; you can probably expect to see clever algorithms being used to manage benefit / tax fraud within the next year, and much crazier stuff soon after. This isn't new of course, the internet is a big spy machine. The point is making that data valid within the broader state legal apparatus.
Just to restate; the fact that the new IPA is about to pass and most media is running stories about a *different piece of legislation to do with porn* should ring alarm bells. Either because of the legal and technical illiteracy of the media or because of deliberate diversion. Maybe they are unconcerned because there is "journalism exemption" within the IPA?
*edit* clicked submit by mistake
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Snowden et al has, knowingly or not, acted as a limited hangout which has given ample time for governments to get their shit together on all legal fronts while bringing the state surveillance apparatus into the public realm where it can now more easily bridge the corporate technosphere. All the while media has massaged and managed dissent ever deeper into apathy, illiteracy and misdirection.
I'm glad I gave up my beliefs in the unavoidable nature of the singularity/technofuture before I saw this shit happening or I would have shot myself in the head by now.
tpaine posted:no idea what you're talking about dude
lol, not porn.
I tried to derail the thread toward what the porn topic is actually intended to derail.