"... 429,343 banned-smut Websites."
Does anyone have a link to this list? (I want to put them in my hosts file to protect myself.)
Pakistani ISP sysadmins are getting ready to write a lot of firewall rules, with the country's telecommunications regulator issuing a list of 429,343 banned-smut Websites. The decision follows hard behind the country's decision to lift its long-standing ban on YouTube (something also qualified by rules that include blocking of …
It's a veritable hotbed of bare ankles, women standing within 10 metres of men and of consensual sex....All apparently controversial things in Middle Age civilisation...
Well, once you hit middle age, you might be doing quite well to get within 10 metres of obtaining consent...
What we've seen is that when you try to censor stuff a lot of people want to see, they have to get creative, and that pushes them to darker corners of the internet, teaches them encryption skills, and creates black markets. All good things in a country fighting internal racialism to increase frustration and murky association.
Who are they kidding? The internet grew up because of porn....
Will the internet also migrate to IPv6 because of porn? I'd like to see them trying to implement per-site blocking when the pornsters can have one IP address (and virtual server) per picture, if they want. Sigh.
A very valid point. The uk's banned list is not short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_United_Kingdom
I assume there's more than that not listed as well.
But you understand it's not censorship when our government does it....
We have seen how the 'Faithful' in the US have fallen to temptation and expensive rent-boys.
This measure is surely not so much to assist the ungodly but to protect the souls of those already 'chosen' from further temptation.
After all, we know very well that in these countries ruled by strong and resolute ultra-hetero males that the mere sight of a bit of flesh- is all that is required to send the beleiver on a downwartd path that ends up with women being blamed. (no matter if the god-botherer goes for man-love, it's always the women who end up being stoned or whipped or just plain killed by a mob.)
“I remember when I was a little boy, I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in Braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.” – Woody Allen (Bananas, 1971)
Because thats working well in Europe blocking torrent sites.
Nobody can get to those now can they?
Seriously though...doesn't anyone in government understand the internet at all?
On another note though will this lead to 1970s style porn consumption? I.e. walking around and looking in bushes for discarded porn.
*"...Those poor Pakistani teenagers are going to have to go back to looking under railway bridges again..."*
Well, given the popularity of all things retro and hipster, it's about time "hedge porn" made a comeback.
In fact, I'm off to set up a porn website which uses Instagram filters to make the pictures look like they've been lying scrumpled up, in the rain, in a hawthorn bush for a couple of weeks.
<cue cash register sound effects>