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Xena E:
Aussie vintage technology website cool 386 was blocked by Google at one point because it featured vibrators. You needed to put your credit card details in for that. John Hunter, who owns the site was understandably miffed that the bloody word police were stopping access to his site.

There was the guy at work, (my department), who was investigated for searching for insulating washers on the net, one suggested search term was 'top hat bushes'. . .  It returned unwelcome results.

It's so inconsistent that one thing could be blocked and another actually show pictures of uncensored mutts.

The whining HR snowflake who 'investigated' the incident with the zeal of the Spanish inquisition eventually had to be told to f*ck off and let people get on with their work:

over protection causes ignorance, ignorance encourages abuse...parental control is for the home environment, word policing the Internet for everyone is just a f*gg*t¹.

¹ traditional meaning, look it up FFS.

Xena, since1994 lifetime politically incorrect and proud of it.

tooki:

--- Quote from: Xena E on March 17, 2024, 12:19:54 pm ---The whining HR snowflake who 'investigated' the incident with the zeal of the Spanish inquisition eventually had to be told to f*ck off and let people get on with their work:

over protection causes ignorance, ignorance encourages abuse...parental control is for the home environment, word policing the Internet for everyone is just a f*gg*t¹.

¹ traditional meaning, look it up FFS.

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I suppose no German-speaker there ever had a need to research bassoons?

BrokenYugo:
I seem to have this memory of a time when children largely weren't allowed on the Internet, what with it being full of weirdos, gore, pornography, and made up bullshit in general. I didn't have private web access until I was like 13 and I was stealing it at the time.

Seems like the easier solution to me, but I suppose that would be less profitable, draining mommy's credit card is big business after all.

tooki:

--- Quote from: BrokenYugo on March 17, 2024, 12:59:53 pm ---I seem to have this memory of a time when children largely weren't allowed on the Internet, what with it being full of weirdos, gore, pornography, and made up bullshit in general. I didn't have private web access until I was like 13 and I was stealing it at the time.

Seems like the easier solution to me, but I suppose that would be less profitable, draining mommy's credit card is big business after all.

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The credit cards aren't to charge money, but to prove you're old enough to have a credit card. Just age verification.

Xena E:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on March 16, 2024, 07:42:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bud on March 16, 2024, 07:30:22 pm ---So what sort of bananas they sell in that section of Ali ?

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The ones that smell iffy after usage.  :-DD

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Anyway, bananas aren't any good for that, they go all squishy after a few minutes in the warm  :-+

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