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Here is a great article about why DPF has a very limited life span:
Quote:Great Britain, however, will soon take a significant step toward deciding what a private citizen can see on the web even while at home. Before the end of the year, almost all Internet users there will be "opted-in" to a system designed to filter out pornography. By default, the controls will also block access to "violent material," "extremist and terrorist related content," "anorexia and eating disorder websites," and "suicide related websites." In addition, the new settings will censor sites mentioning alcohol or smoking. The filter will also block "esoteric material," though a UK-based rights group says the government has yet to make clear what that category will include.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175779/t...ual_/#more
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The freewheeling internet was fun while it lasted. Sometimes, in my more paranoid moments (lots of those lately :
I think the only reason the internet was turned loose on the public was to get us all addicted to it, make the economy dependent on it, and then use it as a massive control system. The world economy would mostly shut down, and most people would be helpless, without it.
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Tracy Riddle Wrote:The freewheeling internet was fun while it lasted. Sometimes, in my more paranoid moments (lots of those lately : I think the only reason the internet was turned loose on the public was to get us all addicted to it, make the economy dependent on it, and then use it as a massive control system. The world economy would mostly shut down, and most people would be helpless, without it.
Great comment. I am going to put up on Facebook. ::facepalm::
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Use one fear, paedophilia, to bring in a raft of other more suppressive measures. The classic thin edge of the wedge routine.
It is a real concern. I have already told my IP that I want to opt out. But millions of others won't, of course. My hope is that younger people will also opt out too, as they're generally more savvy about these things.
Overall, it's a measure of how much governments fear free speech.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
