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POPSPorn sting nets nine Canadians I can't fucking belive this. You'd think that with all the stories going around the news of investigations into child pornography, people being arrested, and the fact that people should realize by now that THEY ARE NOT ANONYMOUS on the net, that these creeps would stop??? Ugh... and Canadians, again... I feel so ashamed of my country... Wtf... The Canadian Government & Cybertip.ca have been talking for a long time about setting up a "national firewall" that blocks sites outside canada that contain child porn. This is one of the few cases where I actually support censorship. I wish they'd just fucking complete it... maybe it would stop some people...
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POPSProposed Law Could Be a Cold Shower for YouPorn
This is a tough one (for most of us). A: We MUST protect kids online. No sane person disagrees with that. B: We MUST have personal freedoms, that includes posting pictures/videos of you & your partner nude, etc. As long as the place you are posting is protected against kids accidentally accessing (ie: labeled properly with text & meta-data that let's filtering software know to block it) This law is meant to make it hard to post material containing images/video of individuals under the age of 18. Right now, I suppose a provider could claim thay weren't sure when a video may contain an individual that is actually 16-17. With the new law, this would be MUCH harder, if not impossible (without fake IDs, etc). Unfortunately, it would also make it very hard for the average poster to post their legal video as well. And it makes it hard and expensive for the hosting sites to collect, verify & maintain the data. I wonder, if this might be a slight bit of overkill? What do
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POPS Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV Sorry for linking directly to the /. article, however they don't give much besides a direct link to search results... Makes me wonder how "true" it is... If it is though.. my earlier post on how much i love my Vista Media Center is a bit moot if i am forced to switch to Linux (my buddy's myth machine is awesome... even if the UI isn't as slick as Vista's.. I'm sure some Linux UI geek with fix that soon).
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POPSProject takes aim at Internet child porn Personally, i think this is a great idea.. if they can extend it to lockout known purveyors of child porn on P2P networks as well, that would be wonderful. (ps: i added "censorship" as a tag, as some people are calling this a form of censorship..I think it solves more than it harms...)
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POPSScientists: Bush Muzzled Research No surprise here... I remember a few stories last year about scientists from NASA and other administrations complaining that their papers were being censored.
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POPSJudge clears Bully game release Jack thompson is an idiot... # for his flagrant use of the term "Colimbine simulator" in reference to bully, a game he has never played, nor even seen... FYI: Thre are no guns in Bully, no bombs, .. what ther is is the characters fists and the worst weapon you can get is a baseball bat. Now, I'm not sayin it is not violent.. most games have atleast a little violence in them.. but there is not way it can even be compared to columbine! F'ing stupid.
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POPS"Bully" must be handed over to a judge within 24 hours... Jack Thompson strikes again. Now, not that I necessarily disagree that a judge would need to view a game in it's entirety to be able to rule if it is a nuisance, but why video games? I mean, do courts order that 50 Cent's latest album must be reviewed by the court to make sure it is not a nuisance? Another thing that bothers me is that games ARE reviewed, just as movies, music, actually, more in depth than music is.. Music just gets an label, which does not stop it from being sold to kids in most cases. FYI: "Bully" is rated 'M', meaning it's not supposed to be played by kids...
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POPSSchool Moves to Block Bully Game by Rockstar (of GTA fame) Ok, so I am usually all for the game makers and thier right to sell games. But in this case, I am on the fence, and even leaning towards supporting the schoolboard. This game is obviously targeted at teens. And the rating it will get will be M (for Mature, meaning you must be at least 17 to buy it). That being said, is Rockstar responsible if violence happens as a result of kids playing this game? Or are parents responsible here too? One can argue that GTA was always meant as an "Adult" game, that Rockstar never intended for it to fall into the hands of children. But this game, "Bully" takes place in a private school, and seems to be aimed at senior high school grade kids. (Most kids are about to enter university at 17, the legal age to buy an M rated game). Personally, I think this game is in just bad taste, and Rockstar is just asking for trouble. Why make this game? Again, I'm usually for the game industry and hate the idea of games being censored. Not here though
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