How long until the internet becomes

[bgraybr]

Censored?
I just read the hate mail section, and learned that some people are idiotic enough to be against Newgrounds. Imagine what they must think of porn sites.

So lets imagine that governments came together and searched the internet, overnight all torrents, porn, excessively violent/"wrong" pages were all removed. If you were caught trying to put these pages back up you could be fined or worse.

Do you think that could ever happen?

[Ultor]

Nah it would be constantly hacked and overthrown the internet is too vast and wide to be censored ever so yeah.

[Ultor]

Nah it would be constantly hacked and overthrown the internet is too vast and wide to be censored ever so yeah.

[Mishypie]

Quite a lot of the internet is already censored....

[Ultor]

Sorry about that the page glitched I did not intentionally post the same thing twice so sorry for the disconvience

[Dalario]

At 1/25/09 01:21 PM, Mishypie wrote: Quite a lot of the internet is already censored....

That.

Most people actually don't know it, but there is a lot of censored websites everywhere.
Hell, even removing a website from the search engines would make sure that no one ever find it.

[hhcash]

The internet is too big in powerful to be censored by the government.

Maybe in the future.

[Digital-Terror]

Every hacking group on the internet would be turned against the government. Not a very smart thing to do.

[kamikazifrank93]

As long as we live in the land of the free (porn), then the Internet shall not be censored.
(Plus if that happened there would likely be a civil war or something)

[Lopas1]

probably won't.

but if it ever does. I'm finding another hobby...

[Thimbles]

At 1/25/09 01:24 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: Every hacking group on the internet would be turned against the government. Not a very smart thing to do.

Haha, yeah right. They'd probably find themselves a job with the government to counter inter-vigilantes. Censoring the internet could bring thousands of jobs :D

...nah.

[lostos]

At 1/25/09 01:21 PM, bgraybr wrote: Censored?
I just read the hate mail section, and learned that some people are idiotic enough to be against Newgrounds. Imagine what they must think of porn sites.

So lets imagine that governments came together and searched the internet, overnight all torrents, porn, excessively violent/"wrong" pages were all removed. If you were caught trying to put these pages back up you could be fined or worse.

Do you think that could ever happen?

That would provoke a revolution against fascism, but even if this does happen (and it happens on numerous countries) , there are existent solutions. There are anonymous networks based on the Internet that cannot be taken down and provide anonymity to their users.

[bgraybr]

At 1/25/09 01:21 PM, Basspro55 wrote: Nah it would be constantly hacked and overthrown the internet is too vast and wide to be censored ever so yeah.

But it wouldn't stop them from trying anyways.

[JKMonkey]

they would never do that, and if they did im sure people would find a way around it

[flashplayer5]

I think sxephil's brain would explode if they ever did that.

[firemaker60]

At 1/25/09 01:31 PM, Shawtey wrote:

At 1/25/09 01:21 PM, Basspro55 wrote: Nah it would be constantly hacked and overthrown the internet is too vast and wide to be censored ever so yeah.

China
Australia

i rest my case

People in those countries can already find alternatives, like proxies and stuff, to get past their country's firewall.

[ragingfred]

then china would have taken over.

[krazykangaroo]

look at Australia, its starting to censor just like china even tho everyone is against it.
so not too long

[Freaki-boy92]

I'd seek out some known hackers, group them together and wage an online war against the censors, who'd be with me?

(i'm serious, mail me if you would)

[bgraybr]

At 1/25/09 02:13 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: I'd seek out some known hackers, group them together and wage an online war against the censors, who'd be with me?

(i'm serious, mail me if you would)

Actually that is a good idea, we could start a group now and be prepared for when that happens.

[xscoot]

At 1/25/09 01:24 PM, Dalario wrote: Hell, even removing a website from the search engines would make sure that no one ever find it.

China tried to do that, but people just started to use elgoog.com (google backwards) and they found all the sites that were blocked. you simply can't censor anything, not if people want to see what you are censoring.

[igott]

Doubt it, the Internet is international, so if they take down a British Porn site, they're going to get some hate.

[Lagatag]

Well figuring the internet is made of tubes, it'd be pretty hard to censor. I mean what are they going to do? Tie it's tubes?

[skykid10]

No. Can't happen. The Internet is 'Free Scorce'. Its like Linux. You can do or publish almost anything you want on it.

[LarrytheViking]

The internet isn't owned by any one country. It's worldwide. Sure, governments of individual countries can block websites, but proxies are the solution to that.

[TheRadicalOne]

The thing that annoys me is people who just dismiss the idea saying "Oh it could neverhappen." And then it actually does and they just bend over and take it like the spineless pussies they are.

If China and Australia can censor what their citizens see, what makes your country so special?

In my opinion, at the rate we're going in 20 or so years, some websites will be considered "illegal" and would be like the equivalent of having child porn on your computer. That is if they didn't force their web hosting to remove the site altogether.

I mean didn't Britain declare cartoon child porn to be just as bad as the real thing? Not like I care but the whole "slippery slope" argument comes into play.

[Onizero]

At 1/25/09 02:18 PM, xscoot wrote:

At 1/25/09 01:24 PM, Dalario wrote: Hell, even removing a website from the search engines would make sure that no one ever find it.

China tried to do that, but people just started to use elgoog.com (google backwards) and they found all the sites that were blocked. you simply can't censor anything, not if people want to see what you are censoring.

I remember having a thread about that.

[RoobyKillAll]

A lot of countries have already censored the internet, like China. You can't go on Newgrounds in a lot of Asia apparently.

[1Tyla1]

MY "ART"!

[majkas]

some country's already have censored internet