Discussion on Lulzsec

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OK HYBR¦D, I know that I am being a bit pedantic here, but strictly speaking this isn't "censorship"

Censorship isn't what governments really want, as people see where stuff has been removed and start looking elsewhere for what their government doesn't want them to see.

What we have seen have been countries such as China and some Islamic states trying to "filter" the internet content available to their citizens for religious or political reasons. I believe that other nations have looked at things like pornography, gaming, pharmaceuticals, file sharing, and the like?

I think that the issue here is more one of monitoring or surveillance (such as "predator") which have more of an impact on your personal privacy.The argument against this is usually that if the government need a court order to open your mail or intercept your telephone calls, then they should need the same for your internet communications.

Governments are trying to work around this by attempting to separate internet connectivity from other forms of communication......"50,000 pings a minute will take out your internet but 5 tons of spam mail would cost too much and you could sell the paper for recycling"

It's a bit like DRM in my opinion...........sounds like a good idea but no-one has found a way to make it work. Right now all the proposals I have seen look more like surveillance without supervision.

Just look at this "Deep Net" the Government has been trying for years to clean/sanitize but they have only made a small ripple in the ocean.

What exactly is that? as I understand the term it is the part of the internet not accessed by search engine spiders? If that is the case then I don't see how government could hope to clean or sanitise it.........how would they even know it needed doing or where to start? also, it is far too big.

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Almost forgot: Happy birthday keezel