In a country where their Big Brother would be a Cinemax After Dark show here in the U.S., a new battle against internet pornography has emerged. David Cameron, the U.K. prime minister has announced some strict, new regulations for internet providers: Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless […]
Sean Hannity decided to have disgraced former representative, Mark Foley, on his show to discuss the Anthony Weiner non-sex “scandal”. Foley, who was forced to resign after sending sexually explicit messages to underage congressional pages, told Hannity that it should not be illegal to send such messages to minors (via Think Progress): This is really […]
I guess not: A top House Republican is planning to propose that Internet service providers be required to store information about their customers to aid police in criminal investigations, CNET has learned. But a recent draft has one huge exception: wireless companies aren’t included. That appears to be the result of lobbying from wireless providers, […]
This time it happened a couple of miles from me: A former Hamilton resident who worked the audio-visual system for an area church allegedly sent child pornography while on the job. Albert Jefferson Stone, 28, of Harrison Avenue in Cincinnati was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 12, by the FBI and charged in U.S. District Court with […]
Another sicko using the pulpit in order to fulfill his twister perversion: BI agents and state police raided an evangelist’s headquarters Saturday as part of a child pornography investigation and said they planned to remove several children from the complex, run by a man previously accused of child abuse. The raid at the Tony Alamo […]
Hell he already taps our phones, why not everything else? The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a […]
So images should be illegal, but someone actually pursuing a minor for sex shouldn’t? Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law. The legislation, […]
Today’s New York Times article covering the developments in the Foley case has one key paragraph that must be addressed: At the Justice Department, an official said that no investigation was under way but that the agency had “real interest” in examining the circumstances to see if any crimes were committed. Why is an investigation […]
Yahoo has banned the name Allah from appearhing in any of the usernames on its servers. Funny that Allah is banned yet God and Jesus are allowed. Here is a nice list of words that are allowed and banned from Yahoo. Pretty shameful coming from a company who for years turned their backs to child […]
With all the talk of Google refusing to hand over search records to the government, here is a story to remind us of why Google is far superior to Yahoo. Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in China for sending an email to the USA. He was accused of “illegally […]