RE: EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 here we go, why not a "united world" :-)

  Lets take Middle east, Japanese, Netherlands, USA, UK, Chinese, and
Australian cultures and try to make them compatible.   Ok, I'm sure that
there are universal things that can hold true, like Pedophilia should be
illegal worldwide, murder, etc  But, yikes I wouldn't even want to jump into
an acceptable TV show in all those countries... Yikes!

  I could just imagine Japanese "train groping" happening here in the
States....  I'm still not sure if it's legal in Japan, but it sure appears
to be.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 12:08 PM
To: Peter Evans
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Peter Evans wrote:

> (Note, URLS safe unless otherwise noted.)
>
> Dr Solly wrote:
> > Consider this. Every country *already* has censorship rules. For
example, 
> > child pornogaphy is censored everywhere. It "goes too far" and "should
be 
> > blocked". I think most people agree on this.
>
>       Consider that half the stuff in Akihabara _is_ kiddy porn.
>
>       vv-- Excellent viewpoint. (It is not anywhere near harsh enough.)
> http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20060512p2g00m0dm014000c.html

I had a look at a couple of your URLs. I saw where some person is accusing 
some other people of being pedophiles. This might or might not be true, I 
didn't really understand what the article was about.

But what it said to me, is that the Japanese cultre is quite different 
from the European culture. Well, I already knew that. I've been there a 
few times, and although I won't claim to understand the japanese culture, 
I could tell how alien it was. For example, they play baseball - can you 
imagine? I was taken to a match by my hosts, and it was incomprehensible, 
not remotely like cricket at all.

But there's no likelihood that Japan will apply to join the European 
Community. For a start, Japan isn't in Europe.


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