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What you haven't answered is why we should deny the general law-abiding public their privacy, aka traffic anonymity.

Would you like to see CCTV on every street, in every bus, in every public building, so that we can be monitored 24/7, and potentially have data about our habits collected?

Because denying traffic anonymity or traffic privacy is effectively the same thing.

What about HTTPS and encryption? If you're concerned about anonymity being such a terrible thing, as it appears MPs are, then maybe you also have a big problem with encrypted connections, etc.

What on earth? I'm one of the biggest anti-mass-surveillance posters on the forum lol!

Where have I said anonymity is such a terrible thing? Are you mixing me up with someone else?
 
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What on earth? I'm one of the biggest anti-mass-surveillance posters on the forum lol!

Where have I said anonymity is such a terrible thing? Are you mixing me up with someone else?
Your post gave the clear impression of defending the MPs over any possible move to block public VPNs. I'm sure I'm not the only one who read it that way.

Phrases like not being use for it's "INTENDED" purpose. Such as "free-for-all public VPNs doing nothing but anonymising traffic". The post on the whole had a tone of disdain for public VPNs.

I will stand corrected if that wasn't what you meant to convey.
 
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I'm not defending any MPs. Yes, there are forces out there who eventually want to complete a total seizure of the internet, but I can assure you I am all for people's privacy, rights, and freedoms.

What I am telling people is not to assume that just because banks and businesses use VPN protocols, that this somehow stops them attempting to block specific VPN providers.
 
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Well yeah, it's just like buying alcohol. Nicotine is more toxic than cyanide it should absolutely be age restricted!

LOL. No it isn't. Nicotine is pretty safe on its own. It is just addictive.

From the NHS stop smoking website:

While nicotine is the addictive substance in cigarettes, it is relatively harmless. Almost all of the harm from smoking comes from the thousands of chemicals contained in tobacco smoke, many of which are toxic. Nicotine replacement therapy has been widely used for many years to help people to stop smoking and is a safe form of treatment.

Source: https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes
 
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  • The regulator will also have powers to take action where a person is making available extreme pornographic material on the internet in the United Kingdom. Extreme pornography is defined in section 22 of the Digital Economy Act.
Missionary position only, thank you very much. We're British!

This is pornographic material that is grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise obscene

Nothing German will make it past the censor, then.
 
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LOL. No it isn't. Nicotine is pretty safe on its own. It is just addictiv


Err take a look at the ld50 mate. It's more toxic than cyanide. Ld50 of hydrogen cyanide is 100mg, ld50 of nicotine is 50mg.

Nicotine causes excessive activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which results in death by respiratory arrest.
 
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Err take a look at the ld50 mate. It's more toxic than cyanide. Ld50 of hydrogen cyanide is 100mg, ld50 of nicotine is 50mg.

Nicotine causes excessive activation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which results in death by respiratory arrest.

50mg per what?

Regardless, sodium cyanide, and nicotine, should be about roughly equal in terms of toxicity, hydrogen cyanide is weaker.
 
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wonder how long until the database gets hacked/leaked

and we can see how all the politicians are fapping of to porn realising it was a dumb idea.

maybe they can get a twitter user with the right hashtags to encrypt it
 
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50mg per what?

Regardless, sodium cyanide, and nicotine, should be about roughly equal in terms of toxicity, hydrogen cyanide is weaker.

The LD50 of nicotine is 0.5-1mg/kg in humans, sodium cyanide's LDL0 is estimated at 2.9mg/kg.

This is all semantics however, the point is that nicotine is a highly toxic substance thus should be age restricted.
 
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In December 2014, the British Board of Film Classification was extended to include online porn on video, on demand and streaming sites.

This brought in the banning of the depiction of certain sex acts including "physical or verbal abuse," "roleplay as non-adults", and female ejaculation among others.
Just LOL. No teacher-student roleplay? Please. What a bunch of puritan nutters. I heard on the grapevine (of course) that most of the actresses in these "roleplay" videos are well into their twenties/thirties anyhow. Nobody is mistaking them for a real child.

And double-LOL at the focus on "female ejaculation". WTF is that all about? Who decided that was so damaging it needed special attention? It's really funny (and desperately sad).

Anyway soon it will be anything slightly offensive to somebody, like food, or watersports, or non-govt-sanctioned positions...

Govt really needs to get a grip (fnar).
 
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Just LOL. No teacher-student roleplay? Please. What a bunch of puritan nutters. I heard on the grapevine (of course) that most of the actresses in these "roleplay" videos are well into their twenties/thirties anyhow. Nobody is mistaking them for a real child.

And double-LOL at the focus on "female ejaculation". WTF is that all about? Who decided that was so damaging it needed special attention? It's really funny (and desperately sad).

Anyway soon it will be anything slightly offensive to somebody, like food, or watersports, or non-govt-sanctioned positions...

Govt really needs to get a grip (fnar).

This is no different really to the kind of closed minded thinking behind things like prohibition of alcohol and things like FGM/circumcision in religions, etc. etc. we should be moving towards more enlightened thinking.

That said some of it is a bit tasteless and I wouldn't shed a tear to see it gone tomorrow even in the context of role played with fully into it actors.
 
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This brought in the banning of the depiction of certain sex acts including "physical or verbal abuse," "roleplay as non-adults", and female ejaculation among others.

Some of the anime fans on here will no doubt be gutted....

Really weird why they've banned female ejaculation... ok it is basically just a girl peeing rather than 'ejaculating' but still - is it also the case that men peeing is banned?

I really don't understand the logic behind most this stuff?

I can sort of see the reasoning behind why they might want really violent stuff (say rape related etc..) and the "role-play as non adults" as it creates a fantasy around quite serious sexual crimes. Then again I'm not sure there is necessarily a link - people can happily watch violent movies without going on a killing spree so why not let them watch some rape or schoolgirl stuff if that is what they're into so long as the "rape" is just acted and so long as the schoolgirl is actually an adult then it shouldn't be a big deal.
 
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Then again I'm not sure there is necessarily a link - people can happily watch violent movies without going on a killing spree so why not let them watch some rape or schoolgirl stuff if that is what they're into so long as the "rape" is just acted and so long as the schoolgirl is actually an adult then it shouldn't be a big deal.

Its a fine line but pent up repression of less than mainstream acceptable tastes and take away their outlet can have the complete opposite effect to what ostensibly they are trying to achieve.
 
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