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10-30-2008, 09:34 PM | #16 |
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It clearly says, "adult content" goodbye cellar Aussie's. Have fun with your play skool internetz!!
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10-31-2008, 05:45 AM | #17 | |
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I was looking forward to a response from an Aussie. I had a feeling it would be the internet equivalent of a shrug I do have to pick you up on this though:
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10-31-2008, 05:56 AM | #18 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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True, Sundae, but live online euthansia is probably a step too far even there.
As for the anorexia sites: these are a serious problem. I have seen them, and they contribute to many a youngster's dangerous descent into self-starvation. How long do you think it would take for a website with a full how-to guide to buying and taking illegal drugs to be closed down? I think we can get carried away in the hysteria over freedom of speech on the internet. There are some real threats to our intellectual liberties which deserve our concern and attention, but there is also an argument for some safeguards in the virtual sphere, just as there are safeguards in every other sphere of life. |
10-31-2008, 05:59 AM | #19 |
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Hey! What's going on? Have I been banned or something?
:taps glass: J/K. It isn't going to pass. Yes the religious right is an active political lobbyist here. But the blogosphere has been alerted, pollies' inboxes are swelling with disapproval, ties are being nervously striaghtened. And yes, the journalist is hyping it. "... might one day possibly be extended to... " Bah, humbug. Remember to take that pinch of salt with everything you read.
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10-31-2008, 06:13 AM | #21 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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I'm talking about the sites which actively promote the anorexia 'lifestyle' with tips on how to best avoid calories, how to rid your body of unwanted food etc etc, how to hide the problem more effectively, how to sidestep the intervention programmes.
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10-31-2008, 06:22 AM | #22 |
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Yes, but again I can't see how it can encourage anyone into the lifestyle. I don't believe anorexia is a choice, I believe it is a mental disorder. Which is why sitting down and having a chat with an anorexic about the harm they are doing themself makes no difference. Which is why anorexics with tubes in their bodies will try to rip them out, knowing they are x days from death.
We can agree to disagree.
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10-31-2008, 06:30 AM | #23 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Oh I'm not suggesting that they encourage anybody into the lifestyle. I just think they add a very unhelpful (from a medical/psychiatric standpoint) element of sub-culture which then feeds back into the anorexia, providing an internal normative structure, entrenching them further and providing them with more tools to evade help or intervention
[eta] on a related topic, did you see that programme the other week? Dana, the Eight Year Old Anorexic Utterly heartbreaking. Fascinating though, too. |
10-31-2008, 07:22 AM | #24 | |
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10-31-2008, 09:01 AM | #25 |
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All this talk of anorexia is making me hungry.
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10-31-2008, 09:20 AM | #26 |
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I just ate some pineapple and spicy beef jerky. Yum.
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10-31-2008, 09:22 AM | #27 |
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I was troughing beef jerky yesterday. Very naughty (it was supposed to be in my Christmas boxes to British soldiers!)
I will replace it.
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10-31-2008, 09:46 AM | #28 |
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10-31-2008, 09:53 AM | #29 |
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Billy! How are you?
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10-31-2008, 10:14 AM | #30 |
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It's law enforcement that needs to do their jobs, and filters seem like a slack way to do that. They need to make arrests. Keeping you from adult content is not going to keep the illegal sites from being up. Or created. You just won't see them or the cellar indiscretions that you tried to click on.
Not that this is going to pass. When something bad happens the powers try to extend beyond the realm they are intended. Think of the children. I did post my butt here once, Aussie's here are just all about having a filter from now on to block that highly questionable content, and I understand.
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