Comments on: The Hadrian Firewall Of Britain Will Keep Us Safe http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/the-hadrian-firewall-of-britain-will-keep-us-safe/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/the-hadrian-firewall-of-britain-will-keep-us-safe/#comment-230958 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 01:45:30 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=15496#comment-230958 Based on evidence provided in the links above it seems to be entirely about porn. If you read between the lines then I daresay it’s about political control or lizard people or whatever and that’s what blogs are for: wild speculation not based on evidence that a serious newspaper wouldn’t touch with a bargepole.

Also, I don’t know if you realise this but North Koreans don’t have the internet so any comparisons there are childish and ridiculous. I daresay there’s some thirteen-year-old boy in England right now whose been put in detention for forgetting his PE kit crying out “This is like North Korea!” But that kind of comment has no place in the adult world.

]]> By: asdfg http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/the-hadrian-firewall-of-britain-will-keep-us-safe/#comment-230922 Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:58:55 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=15496#comment-230922 Spot on comparison. The only differnce of course being that sites are blocked, not that your activity is ebing monitored. Oh, and that I can’t call my internet provider here to ask for uncensored internet. Or actually also that you wont come under surveillance or thrown in jail for organizing people around thoughts considered undesireable by the state. But yeah, other than that, same thing exactly.

]]> By: Anthony Tao http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/the-hadrian-firewall-of-britain-will-keep-us-safe/#comment-230916 Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:03:39 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=15496#comment-230916 Fundamentally not about porn.

So, someone tells you he has the ability to restrict the Internet, that he can ensure children lead healthy online lives, and that he can do it better than parents. You wouldn’t stop to think, Really? And then wonder whether this person is fundamentally capable, intellectually, of being the leader of a free country?

That’s if you take him seriously. Or you could assume he’s an amoral opportunist, since there’s no righteous cause a politician won’t touch. Or could it just be that, like every government/institution with power, he does desire more control? (At least the US had the dignity to keep children out of it.)

]]> By: bag-o-dicks http://beijingcream.com/2013/07/the-hadrian-firewall-of-britain-will-keep-us-safe/#comment-230889 Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:11:32 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=15496#comment-230889 Don’t worry, Anthony. No one’s taking your porns away from you.

The whole “Today you can opt-out of rape porn, tomorrow you’re living in North Korea!” argument doesn’t hold much water.

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