JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | Users can't complain
It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere.
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
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join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA | who get's their warez/porn downloads from wifi anywayz? |
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viperlmw
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| said by hopeflicker  :who get's their warez/porn downloads from wifi anywayz? Freeloaders. |
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Toadman
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join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH
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said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. Yeah, like looking into your neighbors window. I do believe LA is where most of the Porno's are taped anyway.
My 2nd thought - A bum would have to have a computer to download the stuff off of the wifi network, the library gives it out for free already, not much has changed. |
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iwonder
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Would be an interesting test too see how effective Audible Magic is at dealing with the encryption built into Azureus or uTorrent.
Also would be nice to test downloading legal shows like Diggnation, Systm, or TWIT to make sure they are working fine. If not a few hundred calls to tech support may be in order for their "broken" filtering.
Wonder how Audible Magic would deal with traffic encapsulated in SSH or VPN. Wish I lived there so could try to "test" it. I’d bet less that 1 day for workarounds to arise. |
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dadkins
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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said by hopeflicker :who get's their warez/porn downloads from wifi anywayz? Wireless laptop, hello! 
Bet I could get pr0n across that wifi! 
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hopeflicker
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Long Beach, CA | nothing like watching your hi-rez porn video and having a flakey wifi connection. 
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ossito16
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Whiting, IN
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said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. I agree. Why do people want to argue something that is free? |
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TKJunkMail
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said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. I agree. With government money comes government regulation. The two go hand in glove. Don't like it? Go elsewhere.
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
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Long Beach, CA
| said by TKJunkMail :said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. Iagree. With public tax money comes government regulation. The two go hand in glove. Don't like it? Go elsewhere. i fix 4u
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26 | reply to JSRoman
"It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere."
That's not the point. The point is that it's a government entity censoring a public network for whatever reason.
Duhhhhh. |
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kinabrew
join:2002-02-01 | reply to JSRoman
Of course they can complain. Nothing from the government is really free. If they're paying tax money for the service, then they should be able to transmit whatever legal content they want using the service. |
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anno3
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Any one that uses free wi-fi are freeloaders. You are paying tax to have it. The taxes is being paid by people that don't even have a computer or lap top. I don't need it or do i use it so my taxes should be used for this purpose |
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amishboy
join:2004-05-28
Charleston, SC
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A lawsuit on either side
Well, it's illegal to broadcast indecent material over broadcast radio or tv bands. Part of the FCC's (a GOVERNMENT agency) job is to enforce these rules. Is it censorship? Yes. Is it in the public interest? Yes, because the content is accessible by kids.
Whereas there will be First Amendment suits against filtering, consider the alternative... a publicly-funded, universally available mechanism that can deliver illicit content to children... Censorship has a place, a very gray place with fuzzy borders. Freedom isn't free if there aren't checks in place to prevent one person's freedom (of having and transmitting legitmate porn) from inhibiting another's (a child's right to not be exposed to this material before he or she can handle it). |
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ssj4android
Redefining Reality
join:2002-04-14
Wyoming, MI | reply to kinabrew
Re: Users can't complain
Indeed. The article says the filter only blocks illegal content, which is hard to argue against. Anyone know if it's true? But if the taxpayers want porn, they should be able to have porn. |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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Netcong, NJ
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said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. It is not free, it is paid for with tax payers dollars. There is no free lunch. |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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Netcong, NJ
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said by ossito16 :said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. I agree. Why do people want to argue something that is free? It is not free, it is paid for with tax dollars. Taxes are not free. Well I guess if you still live with your parents taxes are free. |
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fiberguy
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said by JSRoman :It is free, if you want to get your psp or porn fix I guess go elsewhere. Really? Free? ~ sigh ~ Can you PLEASE tell me ANYTHING in this country that is "free?"
The government does not have it's own money. It does not generate wealth, it just redistributes it.
This is not "free" internet. The idea of 'get your PSP or porn fix go elsewhere' doesn't cut it. The government can't take tax money to pay for something and then censor speech.
The 1st amendment protects us from the government controlling speech. Filtering porn is on moral grounds. It would be no different than filtering out an opposing view of the government, their political opponants, what ever.
They have NO good argument to uphold this filtering. The connection is just a carrier and my or your surfing porn on the connection does NOT interfear with the community standards since your surfing the internet doesn't affect the person next to you. I could see it if someone was using it to display it in the public forum, but that's a whole different can of worms. Even in that case, it wouldn't matter WHAT connection you used to display it.
Bottom line is, this is just yet another example of a governmental body breaking the law. Yes, surprise surprise, even the governmenet can break the law - they broke the law on many occasions for the past 250 years. |
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fiberguy
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I have to disagree with you, friend. It's not "government" money. It's the people's money. And when that money is in play, THEY have to live with in the regulations of the law. In this case, they are taking money from the people, providing a service and then putting illegal restrictions on it. This has already been played out in the libraries.
Dictating speech by the government isn't acceptable. What's to stop the democratic controlled government from blocking political blogs of their opponent? |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
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Netcong, NJ
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| said by fiberguy : In this case, they are taking money from the people, providing a service and then putting illegal restrictions on it. This has already been played out in the libraries. The libraries are different. They are tax payer funded but they are not run by politicians, they are independently run like school boards. Libraries have fought long and hard to avoid any censorship.
Politicians slop at the public trough and will cave in to the special interest with the deepest pockets. |
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