Bruce from West Oz
New member
According to the radio just now, it looks like we get the Internet
censorship our politicians have been seeking, using a 'filter' on all requests.
What will the "censorship" be like? Have a look at this. I picked it up from
an anonymous source. It's _supposed_ to be a sample of the results of a
search with the beta version of the filter in place. I can not vouch for its
authenticity, obviously, and would not normally post it -- but it might be
worth discussing??
Please note: This is dinkum; it is not April Fool's Day!!!!!!
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Search term(s) Result
"Sexual discrimination" - Found 298485 Web pages with the term
discrimination
"Rape" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a different
search term
"Rape crisis" - Found 601947 Web pages with the term crisis
"Guns" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a different
search term
"Suicide" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Suicide prevention" - Found 703063 Web pages with the term prevention
"Smith & Wesson" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Repeater[sic] rifle" - Found 43133 Web pages with the term repeater
"Manson" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Chat" - Found 3603235 Web pages with the term chat (Believed to be
censored, since AltaVista comes up with some 22 000 000 references to
"chat")
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OK, you figure it out. Without free access to the Net, where does TFL stand?? Nowhere!!! We go back to fragmented, unsupported individuals and groups with NO power at all.
This may not apply to America, but hey!! ... don't count on it. If it's achieved here, I bet your government will look really closely at it.
Bruce
censorship our politicians have been seeking, using a 'filter' on all requests.
What will the "censorship" be like? Have a look at this. I picked it up from
an anonymous source. It's _supposed_ to be a sample of the results of a
search with the beta version of the filter in place. I can not vouch for its
authenticity, obviously, and would not normally post it -- but it might be
worth discussing??
Please note: This is dinkum; it is not April Fool's Day!!!!!!
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Search term(s) Result
"Sexual discrimination" - Found 298485 Web pages with the term
discrimination
"Rape" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a different
search term
"Rape crisis" - Found 601947 Web pages with the term crisis
"Guns" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a different
search term
"Suicide" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Suicide prevention" - Found 703063 Web pages with the term prevention
"Smith & Wesson" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Repeater[sic] rifle" - Found 43133 Web pages with the term repeater
"Manson" - Your search returned no results. Please try again with a
different search term
"Chat" - Found 3603235 Web pages with the term chat (Believed to be
censored, since AltaVista comes up with some 22 000 000 references to
"chat")
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OK, you figure it out. Without free access to the Net, where does TFL stand?? Nowhere!!! We go back to fragmented, unsupported individuals and groups with NO power at all.
This may not apply to America, but hey!! ... don't count on it. If it's achieved here, I bet your government will look really closely at it.
Bruce