"Take away the right to say 'f*** the government'"

What do you mean, 'take away'? Anyone who did is already rotting in jail with a piece of bamboo up their arse...

For once I side with the authorities here...

The forum and internet access, albeit a restricted and sanitised version in this particular case, is a service that is provided at a cost to the University and thus they should be empowered to limit, restrict or "censor" anything that is posted or viewed. Yes, okay I have a go at the cowardly way some of my posts are evapourated into the ether but I don't pay to read and contribute to "El Regio" so I take it on the chin (a rather delicate and bruised chin I might add, that's a fearsome right hook that Sarah Bee's got).

There is very little anonymity left in the world and if people in power have their way every person and all new borns will have a chip inserted so that when you pass through door frames or on/off ramps on a motorway it is logged in a DB.

Could be great you say in that it will rule out being falsely imprisoned for crimes? Well who will control the DB will control justice. Then if you speak out against the gov't they could just "amend the DB" to say that you were at a location where a crime was committed.

Too far fetched. What do you think the rational is behind biometric ID cards.

... will they be able to develop Ruby on Rails applications if swearing is outlawed?

What a disgusting waste of time and a dangerous thing to do. There should be some sort of criminal consequence from knowingly legislating unconstitutional laws. Regardless of if it is just to 'call attention to' some issue. Should be hanged for treason or something.

Dead vulture to represent the state of our constitution.

Rewrite to "police shooting of presumed terrorist (good thing!)... then trying to cover it up when they realise they screwed it up (irredeemable.)"

You ARE allowed to protest against Nuclear Weapons, unfortunately. Just not break into sub pens.

Not being able to protest near parliament is a big of a ridiculous idea, though- it's like saying "If you're going to kill us, do it quietly."

And it's 20% of the world's _visible_ spy cameras.

AND prisons are nothing like as bad in the UK as in China. We've got prisoners successfully suing about being made to empty their own toilets- it cuts into their TV and Playstation time.

The fact is though in the UK you can still for the most part say what you want without fear of being locked up. A quick trawl of just El Reg will turn up plenty of comments critical of the government.

If you criticise the government in China even on your own site (let alone on a publicly funded one like BBC's HYS) you run the risk of being arrested or worse. I have family members there whose friends have dissappeared for complaining about food prices or the corruption of local officials.

Who cares?

As Trekkie from Avenue Q says....

Why you think the net was born?

Porn, porn, porn!

Of course the Internet was really born from the DARPA project to create a resiliant network across the states, so that in times of nuclear war US generals could still look at pictures of naked ladies! :)

Will this new rule prevent the discussion of that great programming language brainf*ck?

Dave

P.S. Mine's the one with the redacted stickers...

... and I thought you were such a polite and well spoken young lady. Ah well, that's that idea fucked.