I certainly object to any porn filter—it’s a basic First Amendment conflict. Plus, these filters have proven to be blunt instruments that don’t account for ambiguities of content or malicious third-party attachments. But I also have other concerns:

my concern is that I like porn

Somehow, I have this idea that Martin’s version of “porn-free” would include blocking sites like FDL because the fucking fuckity fuckers like Martin think the use of the word fuck by foul mouthed fem blogs like FDL constitutes some type of porn fuckery.

Well, that’s another reason as well.

“The free service could be slower and would be required to filter out pornography and other material not suitable for children.”

Martin’s quite the visionary. Selling a product that, even free, nobody will want. Look at any ISP advertisement and what ’s the first thing you see: “Speeds up to a gazillion times faster than (insert competitor’s name).

And kids want slow internet service? Riiiiight.

And let’s not forget that porn is the internet’s number one revenue generator. Where exactly did all those economic stimulus rebate checks go?

Yeah, well, fuck that!

I was talking with a colleague in the quad one Friday afternoon a few years ago, and said something like, “Well, I wonder what new crap is going to come in the Friday-at-five memo?”

A person nearby said, “Watch your language, there are children present.” I looked around and saw the usual mixture of college students, faculty and staff. I found out later he was a teacher at our local Christian School for Dobson wanna-bes.

This post may well catapult FDL to number one:

http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/blog_cuss

Fuck Yeah!

Do you know, I had to read that three times before I realized you referring to “crap” as the dirty word. I was wondering at first if Friday-at-five was code!

That’s rough.

Now I grew up in the south back in the day when even an occasional damn or hell caused looks of horror. But I also attended a military school where my mother was librarian. She’d laugh at the cadet leaders who would be cussing out some poor soul and then see her standing nearby and get all flustered that she’d overheard the language.

She never let it bother her aslong as it wasn’t directed toward her. That teacher needs to get over himself/herself.

Just another big corporate giveaway, crumbs and poison pills for everyone else. David Addington said that they would push and push and push until somebody stopped them. He might have added that they would loot and loot and loot even as they left the building. There are a lot of these final wet kisses to corporations floating around out there at the moment.

do you think it’s just a coincidence that the average percentage of cussing per page is 404?

I got yanked out of the bus line one day while in kindergarten for telling a girl to “shut up”. Standards have changed some.

There’s no way to filter out porn without looking at all of the content, which is tantamount to the government watching everything people do on the internet. Just like the Great Firewall of China. Great model for a free and open society, there.

Or take the block-whole-sites approach current filtering companies do, which have been proven to be used for political and social agendas. And, by the way, can also be circumvented.

We actually had (have?) a porn-free internet in this country, called WAP. It was set up by cell phone companies to provide a filtered, controlled internet-like experience. But it sucked badly, and the only content available was what went through approval of the gatekeepers. Being stuck in the WAP universe is kind of like using CompuServe or AOL, you’re in a little pond that has no bearing on reality.

So yeah, no. Kevin Martin is high on mushrooms. Or totally doesn’t understand technology (awesome for an FCC chair). Or maybe doesn’t like our First Amendment (also awesome).

Once you allow anyone to “filter” the internet, you open up the door for them to start deciding what is “proper” and creating more restrictions according to their definition of what is decent. If people can’t parent their children sufficiently to keep them from spending hours downloading porn, then they need to cut back on their social activities and pay more attention to their children. Not have some government regulators doing their parenting for them. I was able to monitor my son’s internet use just fine until he left home. All it takes is paying attention, and setting rules of use and enforcing them (you can get a program that tells you exactly where your kid has been). And maybe not being so quick to use games and internet as a babysitter. I’m getting sick of lame parents wanting to put restrictions on the internet because they can’t keep track of their spoiled little brats online.

Interesting Gregg, how does this relate to ‘free the air waves?’

http://www.freetheairwaves.com/

Was her name Sarah Palin?

It’s just Republics returning to their roots: porn’s bad; deficits are bad; flag burning is bad. Soon, they’ll all be ranting and raving in unison, just like the good old days. It helps them pass the time as a minority party. They certainly don’t want to spend time actually trying to help fix the mess they created when they were in complete control.

Can’t remember after 48 years. ;)

It was code. Our administration at the time had this habit of sending out unwelcome news just before 5 PM on Friday.

And I couldn’t figure out what naughty word I’d said either. I thought about finding the Language Policeman after I’d figured it out and asking him if he knew the etymology of the term, crap.

Friday news dumps are not just confined to politicians.

Foul mouthed fems. Is there a name for that fetish?

emptywheel upstairs on FISA

and not 666?

Nope.

But I think our Admin adopted it from the pols. Although it could have been an independent discovery too. I’m not sure how much credence to put on that thought, because I’ve heard that University Administrators have their cerebral cortex ablated before taking office.

That late night thread were every comment contained ‘fuck’ pegged that meter, lol.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid need to stand up on their hind legs and let the word go forth from all the committee chairs to every single Bush agency, appointee, and department; the word is STOP, motherfuckers. Just STOP with your crap ideas and stealthy regulations and crony embetterment. Just STOP stealing taxpayer dollars, bandwidth, workplace safety, environmental reasonableness. Just STOP, motherfuckers.

It’s a New Deal, and your old shit is over, so STOP. Right now.

Interesting. Not sure if there is a direct connection, but “free the airwaves” is a Google initiative; Doerr sits on Google’s board and is also a big backer of M2Z. My guess is that their interests are “happily convergent.”

Thanks for the reply and opening up this subject. I think ubiquitous wireless is forming an interesting topic.

Filter material not suitable for children? Of what age? Will the restriction be on violence and bad language also?

I feel religion is not suitable for children. Can I get that content banned?