The previously discussed efforts to protect the children from the wickedness of the Internet, by censoring their access to it, are set to become law, having passed with the unanimous assent of the House of Representatives (lower house, the one with most of the power); it will go before the House of Councillors next week, and then fully come into effect.
With the law, it will become mandatory for PCs and mobile phones to include filtering functionality/software; parental permission is supposed to be required for children to access the Internet in uncensored form.
As to the actual business of judging which sites are “harmful”, the Japanese government will circumvent problems dealing with the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression by outsourcing the censoring to some sort of “private” organisation (likely to be some kind of industry group or quango), the details of which are still unclear.
Via TBS.
got a membership still cant post as my name…odd but I hoshioni shall declare Its up to the parents to raise there kids right, its not up to a government cookie cutter standard. and notice japan isnt the only nation avidly wanting or has censorship. google, photobucket and youtube auto-censor there content. obama and the usa wants a web fairness act.
We all need to unite and come together and see the real emeny. big centralised powers ruling the common folk.
One day people will unite and get sick of governments but that time isn’t now, and it will take ALOT of people dying or being killed before that happens. Sorry folks, this bill is stupid and wont change much for those who can get around it.
Wish we could do a united earth thing like the Star Trek has but honestly could you ever see us do that in 100- 1000 years? I cant 🙁
thanks goodness i,m too old to be called a kid
-Only approved sites would be available to the public.
-The censoring process will be corrupt(ed).
-There will be a waiting list to approve sites.
-Money will control the process (it controls eveything)
-Kids will still find a way around it.
-The control will be centralized into a database.
Voila! Internet control, and they will not have done anything about the initial problem that they instated the big brother bs for in the first place.
so i only affect site hosted in japan?
Wouldn’t this need to be at the ISP level? I mean anyone could just download and burn a live Linux CD/DVD. Last time I checked linux distros were made from many different places around the world and mostly likely would not include internet filtering because a government told them to.
Yes, that’s perfectly feasible. If my country ever tried to install something on my PC, I’d just get rid of it. But, the average japanese l♥♥i has no knowledge about Linux. such a shame…
What the hell?! Damn, Japan, maybe we can ban any political parties or any form of speech deemed dangerous by some officially sanctioned NGO. This makes me happy that I’m going back home to the USA in a few months.