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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:45 am    Post subject: Pornography And Freedom Reply with quote

Pornography And Freedom

By Maurice Ali, Journalist


What would the oppressed masses do with their new found freedom? Many would visit porn sites..... In fact, half of the internet activity revolves around pornography. I am also ashamed to say that Toronto (my home town) is the world leader for promoting pronography and every time I get help from web-developers over here, their examples are always "porno" examples. Here is a slightly altered post from a Middle Eastern person trying to post his Islamic government's onerous restrictions of web use on another website I am a member of:

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Apologies if this has already been done. I've looked around the archives but no luck.

Can anyone recommend a RELIABLE site for converting the web address to an IP address?

I live in a sh!thole totalitarian Middle Eastern society which allows net access only through a proxy server. Apparently if I insert the IP Address of a banned site I will have more luck with access. So I searched and found a few sites that promise to convert the addresses for me. None of them work.

Here are a couple: this one worked once or twice but mainly NOT. And this second one has never worked.

Also, any great ideas on BYPASSING THE PROXY ALTOGETHER?

Help a brother out.........???

(WIN XP Home edition, PC, P4 CPU, ADSL connection.)



Of course we will all help this person in his quest for internet freedom. However; if you look carefully at one of the sites he wishes to visit, you will see that it is "The Hun" - a well know free porn site. While granting freedom to the religiously oppressed to access prono is freedom; "the Hun" through its links will infest any computer with all sorts of spyware. So in effect - his freedom to visit porn sites actually results in more loss of freedom - i.e. privacy. An interesting dilemma.

The answer to this dilemma is that it would be his choice to go there and infect his computer with spy/malware. No one from those websites would go out of their way to tell him he is being tracked and some sites go on the offensive and hijack the user's computer giving them a homepage that automatically places malware on their computer everytime they enter the internet. In many ways, Westerners have fewer freedoms than they think if you look at the commercial intrusions into our environments.

Here is an interesting thought: If the Islamic ban only relates to pornography sites (the vast amount which infect the visitor with spyware) could they not be looked upon as promoting freedom by saving the privacy of their citizens from the capitalist entities of the West? I personally do not see it that way; but some interesting food for thought.....




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