Just to add: The use of the filtering service Netsweeper by many public libraries also has it's annoying and/or sinister side for those wishing to access what is advertised as 'The Internet'. For example, the Dissent G8! website was blocked by those wishing to view it in Southwark (London) Libraries as it was described as 'Hate Speech'. The BNP website was however still accessible. A a researcher, who was using the public library service to look up stuff on the Internet, I lost track of the number of times pages I wished to read were blocked. On one occasion I looked up a site that has on one of its pages a Womens Historical Walk of Bloomsbury only to be denied viewing as the page was from an 'Occult Site'. On the Netsweeper page that tells you you can't access your page, a button can be pressed to submit the URL to the System Admin but this never results in the page becoming accesible. I understand also that Netsweeper functions automatically sweeping pages across the WWW looking for content, prob. keywords, to flag pages to block. Complaints to the library staff did reveal that they were pissed off about it but couldnt do much other than appeal for a particular page that you wanted to view to be unblocked. Complaints to my local councillor were ignored. Research and reporting on the state of affairs of Internet censorship in public libraries would be useful...Does anyone know of any?
How the hell can anyone justify using a web filter in a library??? In the States, lightyears ahead of the UK in the concept of freespeech, and the purpose of libraries, they argue whether porno should be freely viewable, and would be sickened at the idea of libraries filtering on content beyond simple obscenity (and possibly some extreme racism).
Although it may amaze some to hear this, a person working in a library is supposed to be skilled beyond the trolley collector at the local supermarket, and part of their education is supposed to touch on the principles of why libraries exist, and the importance of providing unfettering information to readers.
Only a couple of weeks ago, it was censored book week, when libraries were SUPPOSED to be defending their readers rights to access to information BEYOND attempts by local politicians and churches and other busybodies to control what you and I might see and read.
In the UK, however, our masters have always treated people as scum, and debated the danger of allowing the populace free access to information.
DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO ENTER MOST UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, UNLESS THEY APPLY FOR AN EXHORBITANT YEARLY ENTRANCE PASS.
The UK bumps along the bottom in terms of intellectual services. UK libraries get rid of book shelves (because they made the place look too proper), introduce female only tables, and prevent internet viewers from accessing most information are just part of ensuring that people's common experiences in this New Reich jackboot state are as depressing and offputting as possible.
REMEMBER, from early next year in the UK, you will be sent to prison for 3 years for POSSESSING images of consenting adults in 'sexual' acts, if it is not possible for TONY BLAIR'S official UK pornographers to SELL such material under British censorship rules. IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE STATE DOES NOT AUTHORISE IT, YOU WILL GO TO PRISON FOR POSSESSING IT.
These new laws are designed to introduce a new principle into the UK, one of state authorisation of information in the possession of ordinary citizens. Simple possession of pornographic material in the UK has NEVER BEEN AGAINST THE LAW (with the recent exception of child abuse images- a special case since the interest in any sexual fetish DOES lead to the creation of new material, and with child porn that ABSOLUTELY means that new kids will be abused to create new material).
The reason for the new laws in the UK are twofold. Firstly to terrorise and blackmail on a scale that will dwarf Hitler's use of anti-homosexual laws in Nazi Germany. Computers will be confiscated on the basis of containing adult fetish material, allowing the government nearly universal ability to raid the properties of those that oppose Blair (remember, the attempt to produce a 'band-aid' style record opposing Blair's plans to invade Iraq were stopped when the organiser was FALSELY accused of having child porn on his computer- how much EASIER do you thing such actions will be when you can be accused of having adult fetish images).
Secondly, and just as important, the law will be AUTOMATICALLY extended to include pictures showing Blair's atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, allowing the CLOSE-DOWN of many political sites and individuals fighting Blair and his New Reich. A man has already gone to prison in Scotland for showing another adult, during a discussion about war in Iraq, images of death AFTER warning the other person that they were very unpleasant. THINK ON THIS FACT. As a kid, I saw images I would never forget from Nazi concentration camps on ITV's World at War series. FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL NEED OFFICIAL STATE AUTHORISATION, ***BEFORE*** YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POSSESS OR SHOW SUCH IMAGES. ITV and BBC are organs of the state. They will be free to promote Blair's propaganda, and the World at War will NEVER be banned. However, images showing Blair's atrocities against muslims will be.
FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO POSSESS THOSE IMAGES (AND WORDS) THAT TONY BLAIR AUTHORISES!!! I do not think that many of you understand the import of these changes, or how they reverse the very principles that our society has always followed.
For those of you that follow such things, OFCOM was set up by Blair as a monolithic state censorship body. This Orwellian "Ministry of Freedom" has the stated aim of making the UK the first major state in the world where possession of information previously recognised across the free world as NOT THE CONCERN OF GOVERNMENT, will send you to prison for significant time. Ofcom is preparing for the first round of its new laws.
A massive propaganda campaign is being planned for TV and Newspapers equating fetish pornography (made by consenting adults) with child abuse images. This strategy is already clearly spelt out in the government consultation documents!!!
This campaign is being co-ordinated with the US government, where Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the extreme right-wing nutjob behind the official mass use of torture by US forces, has made THE SAME FETISH SEX CLAMPDOWN a major priority for the FBI (and raids have already occured under this new directive- including sites that ONLY deal in the written word).
Go google - gonzales torture pornography - and discover the nature of Tony Blair's little playmate.
One big difference though- in the US they will NOT be able to go after the users of sexually explicit material, only the producers and vendors, because US citizens are protected by their constitution. IN THE UK BLAIR INTENDS, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BRITISH HISTORY, TO CRIMINALISE SIMPLE POSSESSION OF PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGERY SHOWING ACTS PERFORMED BY CONSENTING ADULTS.
Blair intends to trap vast numbers of UK males in an 'operation ore' style operation, although these males will only ever have watched ADULT FETISH PORNOGRAPHY. The purpose is a massive close-down of ALL OPPOSITION VOICES in the UK when Blair moves to the next stage of his war plans. Hitler used Homosexuality to blackmail and suppress much opposition in Nazi Germany. Tony Blair intends to use Adult Sexual Fetish to achieve the same aims here.
Things are going to get nasty to a degree that few of you will even be able to imagine. This is NOT a game!!! Blair is going to go ALL the way, and each and every one of us are going to have our lives changed forever.
BTW to make this crystal clear, from some time next year, if you and your partner were to video yourselves indulging in one of the most common forms of fetish play by 'vanilla' couples, namely mild bondage and 'rape' play, you will be sent to prison for three years, you will both be on the sex offenders register, and your children (if any) will be removed from you, and given to one of Blair's organisations (eg NCH) responsible for backing and creating this law. After that, you will ENVY that Iraqi man holding the ragged corpse of his female child after Blair had blown her to pieces in that famous Photo taken during Blair's massacre of Iraq (that photo will also become illegal to possess).
I hate websence, how many time I have come across them ------. God i Hate them...arggh. One of the many reason why Easynet Internet Cafes are going bust..
"...the law will be AUTOMATICALLY extended to include pictures showing Blair's atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, allowing the CLOSE-DOWN of many political sites and individuals fighting Blair and his New Reich... As a kid, I saw images I would never forget from Nazi concentration camps on ITV's World at War series. FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL NEED OFFICIAL STATE AUTHORISATION, ***BEFORE*** YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POSSESS OR SHOW SUCH IMAGES. ITV and BBC are organs of the state. They will be free to promote Blair's propaganda, and the World at War will NEVER be banned. However, images showing Blair's atrocities against muslims will be. FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO POSSESS THOSE IMAGES (AND WORDS) THAT TONY BLAIR AUTHORISES!!!"
Right Twilight. I'd like you to substantiate this. Can I please have a link to the legislation and a proper legal commentary which substantiates your own interpretation.
Now for those of you who think I'm being nasty to Twlight, some background information.Twilight & Co. have stated - and lets emphasise that - on numerous occasions the most far-reaching accusations of criminal acts and conpiracies. These have almost univerally failed to be supported by evidence of any sort. He/they state, time and time again, that they *know* this to be true, but ask yourself; how can they be sure if they cannot explain to us how they arrived at this conclusion? Especially if, as is sometimes suggested, all the evidence has been concealed by the powers that be?
Twilight's complete failure to respond to such recent requests from a considerable number of correspondents is particularly telling, especially as he continues to post elsewhere on the site. For those of you who are interested, take a look at:
No one has anything useful to say then in Libraries and Internet Censorship...Would be useful instead of being as boring as the above nonsense. Cheers ND
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What does avocacy group mean exactly?
20.10.2005 09:08
We have this blocker at work (I'm at home now).
worker
Website blocking in Public Libraries
20.10.2005 11:23
Complaints to the library staff did reveal that they were pissed off about it but couldnt do much other than appeal for a particular page that you wanted to view to be unblocked. Complaints to my local councillor were ignored.
Research and reporting on the state of affairs of Internet censorship in public libraries would be useful...Does anyone know of any?
Noonday Demon
hack
20.10.2005 13:50
joe
Websense is just doing the bidding of OFCOM- learn what 2006 brings
20.10.2005 14:06
Although it may amaze some to hear this, a person working in a library is supposed to be skilled beyond the trolley collector at the local supermarket, and part of their education is supposed to touch on the principles of why libraries exist, and the importance of providing unfettering information to readers.
Only a couple of weeks ago, it was censored book week, when libraries were SUPPOSED to be defending their readers rights to access to information BEYOND attempts by local politicians and churches and other busybodies to control what you and I might see and read.
In the UK, however, our masters have always treated people as scum, and debated the danger of allowing the populace free access to information.
DID YOU KNOW THAT IT IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO ENTER MOST UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, UNLESS THEY APPLY FOR AN EXHORBITANT YEARLY ENTRANCE PASS.
The UK bumps along the bottom in terms of intellectual services. UK libraries get rid of book shelves (because they made the place look too proper), introduce female only tables, and prevent internet viewers from accessing most information are just part of ensuring that people's common experiences in this New Reich jackboot state are as depressing and offputting as possible.
REMEMBER, from early next year in the UK, you will be sent to prison for 3 years for POSSESSING images of consenting adults in 'sexual' acts, if it is not possible for TONY BLAIR'S official UK pornographers to SELL such material under British censorship rules. IN OTHER WORDS, IF THE STATE DOES NOT AUTHORISE IT, YOU WILL GO TO PRISON FOR POSSESSING IT.
These new laws are designed to introduce a new principle into the UK, one of state authorisation of information in the possession of ordinary citizens. Simple possession of pornographic material in the UK has NEVER BEEN AGAINST THE LAW (with the recent exception of child abuse images- a special case since the interest in any sexual fetish DOES lead to the creation of new material, and with child porn that ABSOLUTELY means that new kids will be abused to create new material).
The reason for the new laws in the UK are twofold. Firstly to terrorise and blackmail on a scale that will dwarf Hitler's use of anti-homosexual laws in Nazi Germany. Computers will be confiscated on the basis of containing adult fetish material, allowing the government nearly universal ability to raid the properties of those that oppose Blair (remember, the attempt to produce a 'band-aid' style record opposing Blair's plans to invade Iraq were stopped when the organiser was FALSELY accused of having child porn on his computer- how much EASIER do you thing such actions will be when you can be accused of having adult fetish images).
Secondly, and just as important, the law will be AUTOMATICALLY extended to include pictures showing Blair's atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan etc, allowing the CLOSE-DOWN of many political sites and individuals fighting Blair and his New Reich. A man has already gone to prison in Scotland for showing another adult, during a discussion about war in Iraq, images of death AFTER warning the other person that they were very unpleasant. THINK ON THIS FACT. As a kid, I saw images I would never forget from Nazi concentration camps on ITV's World at War series. FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL NEED OFFICIAL STATE AUTHORISATION, ***BEFORE*** YOU ARE ALLOWED TO POSSESS OR SHOW SUCH IMAGES. ITV and BBC are organs of the state. They will be free to promote Blair's propaganda, and the World at War will NEVER be banned. However, images showing Blair's atrocities against muslims will be.
FROM NEXT YEAR, YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO POSSESS THOSE IMAGES (AND WORDS) THAT TONY BLAIR AUTHORISES!!! I do not think that many of you understand the import of these changes, or how they reverse the very principles that our society has always followed.
For those of you that follow such things, OFCOM was set up by Blair as a monolithic state censorship body. This Orwellian "Ministry of Freedom" has the stated aim of making the UK the first major state in the world where possession of information previously recognised across the free world as NOT THE CONCERN OF GOVERNMENT, will send you to prison for significant time. Ofcom is preparing for the first round of its new laws.
A massive propaganda campaign is being planned for TV and Newspapers equating fetish pornography (made by consenting adults) with child abuse images. This strategy is already clearly spelt out in the government consultation documents!!!
This campaign is being co-ordinated with the US government, where Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the extreme right-wing nutjob behind the official mass use of torture by US forces, has made THE SAME FETISH SEX CLAMPDOWN a major priority for the FBI (and raids have already occured under this new directive- including sites that ONLY deal in the written word).
Go google - gonzales torture pornography - and discover the nature of Tony Blair's little playmate.
One big difference though- in the US they will NOT be able to go after the users of sexually explicit material, only the producers and vendors, because US citizens are protected by their constitution. IN THE UK BLAIR INTENDS, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BRITISH HISTORY, TO CRIMINALISE SIMPLE POSSESSION OF PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGERY SHOWING ACTS PERFORMED BY CONSENTING ADULTS.
Blair intends to trap vast numbers of UK males in an 'operation ore' style operation, although these males will only ever have watched ADULT FETISH PORNOGRAPHY. The purpose is a massive close-down of ALL OPPOSITION VOICES in the UK when Blair moves to the next stage of his war plans. Hitler used Homosexuality to blackmail and suppress much opposition in Nazi Germany. Tony Blair intends to use Adult Sexual Fetish to achieve the same aims here.
Things are going to get nasty to a degree that few of you will even be able to imagine. This is NOT a game!!! Blair is going to go ALL the way, and each and every one of us are going to have our lives changed forever.
BTW to make this crystal clear, from some time next year, if you and your partner were to video yourselves indulging in one of the most common forms of fetish play by 'vanilla' couples, namely mild bondage and 'rape' play, you will be sent to prison for three years, you will both be on the sex offenders register, and your children (if any) will be removed from you, and given to one of Blair's organisations (eg NCH) responsible for backing and creating this law. After that, you will ENVY that Iraqi man holding the ragged corpse of his female child after Blair had blown her to pieces in that famous Photo taken during Blair's massacre of Iraq (that photo will also become illegal to possess).
twilight
argh
20.10.2005 17:33
The same company at the Easyjet company...
Rant over
w
Oh Twlight, Yoo Hooo
20.10.2005 19:31
Right Twilight. I'd like you to substantiate this. Can I please have a link to the legislation and a proper legal commentary which substantiates your own interpretation.
Now for those of you who think I'm being nasty to Twlight, some background information.Twilight & Co. have stated - and lets emphasise that - on numerous occasions the most far-reaching accusations of criminal acts and conpiracies. These have almost univerally failed to be supported by evidence of any sort. He/they state, time and time again, that they *know* this to be true, but ask yourself; how can they be sure if they cannot explain to us how they arrived at this conclusion? Especially if, as is sometimes suggested, all the evidence has been concealed by the powers that be?
Twilight's complete failure to respond to such recent requests from a considerable number of correspondents is particularly telling, especially as he continues to post elsewhere on the site. For those of you who are interested, take a look at:
A theory unsupported by evidence or proof is no more than a theory.
Observer
Yawn!
24.10.2005 15:08
Cheers
ND
Noonday Demon