The proposed internet porn filter is a misguided and ineffective attempt to make the internet safe for children. It doesn’t matter that there is porn on the internet what matters is that by allowing your child unsupervised access to the internet you are introducing them to billions of strangers from all over the world and we all know, not everyone is nice. …
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Yearly Archives: 2012
Internet Censorship – Porn
Slimming Regime
Why I am Fat. Before I went to the US at the end of 2001 I had always been between 65kg – 73kg. On my return a year later I was 82kg! Ever since I have had a problem with a pot belly and never been less than 76kg. In the last year or two…
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BBC, F1, Market Forces
Can anyone tell me how I can use my power as a consumer to register my dissatisfaction at the BBC selling off half their F1 coverage to Sky? With any other company I could stop purchasing products from them. Since we are legally obliged to buy a TV license how does the BBC measure consumer…
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Valentines
So today we all have to take the ones we love to a packed restaurant, eat from a set menu at greatly inflated prices and try to fulfill a commercial edict to demonstrate our love through expenditure and creativeness or at least discover a passing knowledge of the romantic poets so we can rip them…
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Pirate Bay block endangers children
The recent court order forcing 5 major UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block the Pirate Bay website looks like it might have backfired in several spectacular ways. First there is the claim by the Pirate Bay operators, who say since the court order was announced they have had an extra 12 million visitors to…
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