Thread: Internet censorship.....

John, looks like that in China works very well

The kids at our school have already hacked the censorship thing on the schools computers, by using a different search engine they can view the you tube facebook etc etc that were blocked on the schools computers.
Previouslly they used USB sticks with Firefox web browswer to by pass the schools internet timer that charges for time used on the net.
11y olds know more than the so called computer administrators

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 Ed. is not considered scholarly in events like the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinande, the October Revolution, The Great War, the Versailles Treaty 1919, League of Nations, Sino Japan War, Wall Street Crash, The great Depression, the Weimar Republic, appeasement, anschluss, Invasion of Poland, Operation barbarossa, Atlantic Conference, Japanese Pearl Harbour attack, Wannsee conference, invention of the programmable computer, Tehran Conference, Manhattan Project, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Declaration, Trinity test, dropping of "Little Boy", the Marshall Plan, the Macarthur Plan, Korean Police Action, Rock N Roll, Bay of Pigs, invention of the microprocessor, assassination of JFK, Apollo program, Détente, Woodstock festival, sacking of the Whitlam Governemnt, Assassination of John Lennon, development of the internet, etc etc etc in fact in the absence of all those facts the 1911 edition looks pretty pale as a scholarly reference today.

That is why I also have a 1999 Encyclopedia Britannica CD-Rom in addition to my 1910, 11th edition Britannica. And yes my Cd-ROM is out of date for 21st century events.

Would never get rid of my 29 volume authoritative 11th edition Britannica though as it has much history that others have changed.

I also have a first edition Britannica that I purchased for $10--.

John don't forget that history can change without it being a conspiracy. Otherwise why become a historian? The object is a re-evaluation of existing data and theories as well as perhaps the discovery of new sources of information previously unavailable. To rely on the 1911 edition as the only version of the truth would be foolish - look at how even recent history changes (eg WWI, WWII events) because new news footage comes to light or archives become available to researchers that were previously classified. Sorry off topic...

I don't know what the intention of the filter is. I suspect it is pandering to right-wing groups and ignorant people who cannot see beyond this logic:

1. There is porn on the Internet, some very nasty porn.
2. The Government is trying to block it. OK, they won't get all of it, but if one kid doesn't manage to see one image it's all been worth it.
3. There are a bunch of pinko lefties who are in favour of free speech and probably love pedophiles who don't want a filter. They're probably up to no good. That fellow Conroy is just trying to stand up for good moral values.
4. We censor books and films, why not the Internet? Why does it have to be special?

All these questions are rhetorical by the way. I know exactly how the Internet works and like everyone else in the industry am against this silly 'filter'.