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james_s:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 10, 2023, 08:32:34 am ---Installing a firewall simply doesn't work. Evidence: China's great wall, and the general impracticality of filtering "good" from "bad".

The "cookie fiasco" isn't bad: it viscerally shows you how you are being traded across many companies. That, plus "no javascript" plugins make people realise why there are farcebook and twatter logos on many web pages. That's basic survival information for, say, those unfortunate to be based in countries where religious zealots attempt to control how you use bits of your body.

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Well what do you suppose this internet censoring will do that a firewall won't? People will get around any kind of limitations put in place if they really want to.

Regarding the cookies, speak for yourself. I don't like cookies much but those notifications are SO obnoxious, they make my blood boil because they are EVERYWHERE, the cure is FAR worse than the disease! I would seriously like to strangle the person that thought requiring those was a good idea, and at the very least I wish they would only be shown to users in the bone headed nation(s) that inflicted them on the world. Thankfully recent versions of Brave contain a built in blocker for them.

james_s:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 10, 2023, 04:02:47 am ---This reminds me of how at the high school I went to, one of the biology books in the library has pictures of male and female private parts. (That's photographs, in addition to cross section drawings which are standard for such books.) I just kept it to myself and continued reading. In fairness, there are truly lots of books in any good sized library and it would be impractical to check each one for such "bad" pictures and words.

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There's nothing wrong with photos of reproductive organs in a biology book, every mammal has those bits and there is nothing obscene or pornographic about them, it's just biology.

james_s:

--- Quote from: voltsandjolts on July 09, 2023, 12:42:49 pm ---I agree with you on that. If enough parents did this, new laws wouldn't be needed. Why are they not doing it? Technical incompetance, cost, or just don't care. I do know parents who only allow net access in a shared room of their house (corridor or living room), to have some oversight, but were unaware of commercial filtered internet options.

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It doesn't matter why, that is up to the individual parents. It isn't your, my or the government's responsibility to do the parent's job for them, it's something the individual parents need to figure out how to do themselves. That's just part of what being a parent is.

themadhippy:
It don't matter who you vote for,the government still gets in.

james_s:
This thread makes this come to mind  :-DD

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