Nomnomnom, wrong wrong wrong
“Oh no a woman has dared offer her opinion about the future of the internet!! Cue outraged howls of indignation from men...”
Everyone is saying the same things about ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron as they are Claire Perry, yet because she is a women you feel the need to defend her and not him and say the reason people are having a go at her is because they are sexist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy
“Predictable. No doubt she'll come under a hail of abuse on Twitter from Trolls soon.”
An internet “Troll” is someone who posts comments on pages and threads to either disrupt, trick or annoy, example - posting a topic on a forum titled
“Can someone help please? I don’t know if I should I feed live crickets and bugs to my baby...”
Once clicked on full text is seen
Can someone help please? I don’t know if I should I feed live crickets and bugs to my baby snakes, or should I stick with dead ones until they are older, and at what age can they ‘hunt’ them at?
The ‘Troll’ uses the character limit in the topic header to turn what could be seen as a normal post into something that plays a joke on the users of the forum,
Another simpler example is in computer games when pretending to be a novice gamer, asking silly questions, example
Troll – How do I find the (item) to complete the (name of) mission?
Helpful Gamer – Its located in the (place name)
Troll – How do I get there?
HG – Look on the map
Troll – How do I get the Map?
HG – Press the M key
Troll – Whats a “M” Key?
Other gamer – Lol Don’t feed the trolls
What you are describing on Twitter when people post vile threating posts are bullies and in some cases are breaking the law
“Kids are using the internet more and more and we absolutely need to stamp out unsuitable material.”
No, We need to stop kids from viewing unsuitable material, not remove it, child pr0n is already illegal, this filter will not make even the smallest amount of difference when it comes to child p0rn, it doesn’t work like that, pedophiles don’t use Google to find images, it doesn’t work like that.
The ‘unsuitable material’ this will filter out is pretty much anything, for example I can’t use my mobile phone to find information about problems with my mobile phone because Orange think ‘Sony Mobile Web Forum Help’ is unsuitable because as a ‘web forum’ they don’t know what the content is, so it’s blocked.
So what can we do? If only there was some kind of parental control on that can be ‘activated’ to not allow your kids access adult content, oh wait, most internet providers have this option, all it needs is the parent to turn it on.
The difference is that currently if I want to stop kids using ‘my’ internet to view ‘adult content’ I have to say so, I have the choice.
when they go ahead with this stupid idea if I want to use ‘Sony Mobile Web Forum Help’ I have to contact my ISP and be put on a list to say I am a pervert who likes watching the most degrading smut filled snuff films.
“Clare Perry is absolutely right that we need filters in every device that will block this stuff out. “
As said before, we already do, people just need to be told to how to do it.
“Shame on anyone who disagrees.”
Shame on anyone who thinks this will a) Work, b) make any kind of difference c) absolves them of having to take responsibility in their parenting
In other words, we need to Educate, not Regulate.