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Re: [LUG] My letter to my MP / ISP ban to The Pirate Bay

 

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On 02/05/12 13:46, Julian Hall wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 12:24, paul sutton wrote:

>> it is like this argument on blocking children from accessing porn
>> sites,  google seems to argue that it is UP TO PARENTS to take
>> control and acually PARENT their kids rather than being lazy and
>> letting someone else do it for them and moan when it goes wrong.
>> I agree with google. on this it is up to PARENTS to do this,
>> install filters not expect others to do it for them.
> That's a whole new argument, and one I completely agree with you 
> on.
> 
> At the end of the day all this proposed legislation is being
> pushed by MPs seemingly without any reference to professional
> technical expertise to find out if what they are proposing will
> actually work.  Blocking sites (for any reason) won't work because
> quite simply those who want to circumvent the block will do so
> with proxies and/or anonymising websites.   One minute with an IT 
> technician would tell them that, but they'd rather be seen to be 
> doing *something* than wait longer and actually do something that 
> would work.

Also current filtering software tends to have a rather high rate of
both false positives and false negatives. That's even in a competitive
market. Without a competitive market (e.g. ISP level filtering) the
quality of such sofware is likely to be even lower. Indeed we already
have examples of how poorly ISP level filtering can be with the
various Regional Broadband Consortia, including the SWGfL, set up to
provide schools with "Internet" connectivity. (Not helped by a common
failure to understand that there are time/bandwidth wasting sites
which whilst fine at home have no place in school/work. Along with
controversial, even potentially highy offensive, issues which are part
of the curriculum.)

Even if you were to stick with just "porn" can you actually have an
objective definition.
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