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Godaddy caves to UK Porn hysteria

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Re: Godaddy caves to UK Porn hysteria

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Post by milliams »

Osiris wrote: post #37

I work at GoDaddy, though not in the domains group. I heard this story from a co-worker that does work directly on domains and was involved in the the deployment. Within the last week, a UK news agency published a report that it was was possible to buy the domain name 'rapeher.co.uk'. I don't know the exact article but I believe it was this one [1] The rumor is that someone from the Prime Minister's office called the…

> (Ironically, that article about getting rid of porn has a full column of ads on the right side filled with half-naked women)

That's the Daily Mail for you. Ironic.

Re: Godaddy caves to UK Porn hysteria

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decasteve wrote: post #3

My rant about the topic of UK Porn is that it is entirely analogous to what is happening in Russia with the anti-Gay legislation. Two forms of sexual expression, both states using the same logic in terms of reasons for legislating against them, namely "Protect the children". Both with social stigma and negative attitudes from the most ardent conservatives of the population. Though in Russia the bigotry extends a litt…

I don't consider lawmakers openly calling for the systematic suppression of a particular minority (and deliberate non-enforcement of the law against vigilantes), to be that similar to a nanny-state approach towards regulating content probably enjoyed by the majority of adult men. And I haven't seen even the craziest of British regional political figures propose whipping porn-viewers in public squares. I think that rather actually trivialises the issues faced by gay men in Russia.

It's a bit disappointing to see the generally better-informed anti-censorship brigade resorting to the same hysteria and half truths as the Mary Whitehouse brigade. Opt-in porn censorship that probably won't even work simply isn't the same as bigotry, and likewise it's disappointing to see the linked article - actually one of the better and more nuanced articles I've read on the subject - repeating the widespread claim that the UK government's policy says anything at all about opt-in filters on esoteric material and web forums (a meme apparently started based on a screenshot of one of many commercial filters used by ISPs that's been around for years without causing any controversy)

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