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Is John Carr a Professional Idiot?

Bob2002

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Those of you who have been following the national media coverage over Internet pornography have probably had exposure to John Carr. When the media want an absolute cretin to expound on the dangers of the Internet John Carr is their go to source. This is his latest pronouncement as reported over at Domain Incite -

Nominet should have a policy that websites registered under the national domain name do not contain depraved or disgusting words. People should not be able to register websites that bring disgrace to this country under the national domain name.

Now, assuming you’re a regular DI reader and have more than a passing interest in the domain name industry, you already know how ludicrous a thing to say this is.

Network Solutions, when it had a monopoly on .com domains, had a “seven dirty words” ban for a long time, until growers of shitake mushrooms and Scunthorpe Council pointed out that it was stupid.

You don’t even need to be a domain name aficionado to have been forwarded the hilarious “penisland.net” and “therapistfinder.com” memes — they’re as old as the hills, in internet terms.

Assuming he was not misquoted, a purported long-time expert in internet filtering such as Carr should be profoundly, deeply embarrassed to have made such a pronouncement to a national newspaper.

It is worth reading the full article here. :hrmph:
 
Totally absurd. I'll grant you that trolls are a cancer of the internet but they're also kind of something you have to live with as part of maintaining freedom for everybody else. You can't ban swearing.. I don't see how that could possibly end up being viable.

Heck children pretty much always swear ten times more than adults so maybe the solution is just to ban children from the Internet? I mean if we're talking about silly ideas..
 
to be honest, kids dont even need the internet to push other kids into committing suicide.. granted recent events are sad and l do feel for the parents, however their story is being used to grandstand and capitalise on the supposed need for censorship.

take myself for instance, l was severely bullied at school and unlike the girl who recently took her own life my bullying was physical. in fact l have two chipped front teeth from being kicked in the face!! despite that teachers wouldnt believe what happened... tho l never took my own life l can relate to what she might have been feeling.

suffice to say the point lm trying to make is that it doesnt matter whether you factor in the internet or not, offline or online abuse is abuse and just blocking methods to commit it wont make a jot of difference as you cannot protect your children from other children. what parents can do is talk to their kids and teachers should also instil some realities of where such abuse can end. in my case l mentioned above it had nothing to do with the internet which begs one large question.. why are we focusing on censorship when it achieves nothing but hiding a problem rather than resolving it?
 
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Hiding problems rather than solving them is what politicians do. Why? . . . because they can. Well, they think they can hide them; but they can't solve them. The "do something"/"get stuck in" mentality is ingrained in the national psyche but sadly few of us can see the difference between busy-ness and effectiveness.
 
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