Ok, this? This worries me
Apr. 4th, 2008 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessThis little news piece here causes me no small amount of concern
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm
It caused me lashings of amusement this morning that has now faded into a vague concern. Basically, Mr. Brown and his government have decided to protect the lickle kiddies from the evils of internet predators (because woe betide parents actually monitoring their dear little Mckynzie/Summer/Heaven/Teardrop/Origanalnamie (and If I ever had the evil chance to name a small child I would so call them Originalnamie) when they're on the internet).
How will they protect the kiddies? Why they will make sure that all internet predators will have to register their email addresses with the police and websites like facebook, myspace et al would be expected to block these email addresses.
Now, since everyone reading this is (presumably) capable of creating a livejournal account, I imagine you've all already spotted the problem with this useless law. But just in case it's first thing in the morning, you haven't had your morning coffee yet or Orlando Bloom is dancing naked by the computer and distracting your higher brain functions (and if he IS dancing naked by the computer what are you doing reading LJ? Grab the whipped cream and set to!) I'll spell it out.
I would wager that there's not a person on my friend's list who couldn't create at least 2 false email addresses in the time it takes me to type this (allowing for obligatory Orlando Bloom reverie). Creating multiple multiple multiple email addresses is impossibly evil. I have 6. Actually I have over a dozen I've just forgotten the passwords to some of the older ones. ANYONE capable of creating a Myspace, etc account is quite capable of opening up Yahoo or Hotmail and registering a dozen accounts to allow them to try and sell Cialis to a discering internet audience.
So, why am i concerned? I am concerned about the government. I am mildly concerned that they have wasted time and money (to say nothing of increasing the burden of police paperwork) on a law that is even less useful than LJ's adult content policies. The best case scenario is that this is an empty, vote winning gestures to placate all the Helen Lovejoy's out there. Despute the cynical and dishonest nature of such a gesture, which most certainly enrages me all on its own, I hope that is true.
The alternative is that they actually believe that this will make a difference - because that means the government and its advisors are UTTERLY clueless when it comes to computers and the internet. It would mean their ignorance is so deep and so vast that they cannot even begin to understand the first thing about internet usage. This is the 21st century. Being this ignorant about computers is not even remotely acceptable for just about any office employee in the country. For the government to display this level of ignorance is shocking and, frankly, frightening. How cna they possibly lead a country in the 21st century when they know so little about one of the integral parts of it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm
It caused me lashings of amusement this morning that has now faded into a vague concern. Basically, Mr. Brown and his government have decided to protect the lickle kiddies from the evils of internet predators (because woe betide parents actually monitoring their dear little Mckynzie/Summer/Heaven/Teardrop/Origanalnamie (and If I ever had the evil chance to name a small child I would so call them Originalnamie) when they're on the internet).
How will they protect the kiddies? Why they will make sure that all internet predators will have to register their email addresses with the police and websites like facebook, myspace et al would be expected to block these email addresses.
Now, since everyone reading this is (presumably) capable of creating a livejournal account, I imagine you've all already spotted the problem with this useless law. But just in case it's first thing in the morning, you haven't had your morning coffee yet or Orlando Bloom is dancing naked by the computer and distracting your higher brain functions (and if he IS dancing naked by the computer what are you doing reading LJ? Grab the whipped cream and set to!) I'll spell it out.
I would wager that there's not a person on my friend's list who couldn't create at least 2 false email addresses in the time it takes me to type this (allowing for obligatory Orlando Bloom reverie). Creating multiple multiple multiple email addresses is impossibly evil. I have 6. Actually I have over a dozen I've just forgotten the passwords to some of the older ones. ANYONE capable of creating a Myspace, etc account is quite capable of opening up Yahoo or Hotmail and registering a dozen accounts to allow them to try and sell Cialis to a discering internet audience.
So, why am i concerned? I am concerned about the government. I am mildly concerned that they have wasted time and money (to say nothing of increasing the burden of police paperwork) on a law that is even less useful than LJ's adult content policies. The best case scenario is that this is an empty, vote winning gestures to placate all the Helen Lovejoy's out there. Despute the cynical and dishonest nature of such a gesture, which most certainly enrages me all on its own, I hope that is true.
The alternative is that they actually believe that this will make a difference - because that means the government and its advisors are UTTERLY clueless when it comes to computers and the internet. It would mean their ignorance is so deep and so vast that they cannot even begin to understand the first thing about internet usage. This is the 21st century. Being this ignorant about computers is not even remotely acceptable for just about any office employee in the country. For the government to display this level of ignorance is shocking and, frankly, frightening. How cna they possibly lead a country in the 21st century when they know so little about one of the integral parts of it?
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Date: 2008-04-04 02:54 pm (UTC)Keira any day!!!
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