Cloud Potato posted:

Stephen Collins:

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Independent:


Archaeopteryx restored in fossil reshuffle;

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Stephen Collins:

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Yesterday's Independent on Sunday:

SedanChair posted:

What the hell is this in reference to? Is it just "YOU CAN FIND THINGS ON GOOGLE "

SedanChair posted:

What the hell is this in reference to? Is it just "YOU CAN FIND THINGS ON GOOGLE " or is there some specific story?

I'm not gonna search for it because, well, you know.

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Search engines urged to block more online porn sites.
Search engines such as Google should do more to restrict access to online pornography, a government adviser on child internet safety has said.

John Carr says internet companies should block links which paedophiles use to find pictures of abuse.

It comes after a court heard April Jones's murderer Mark Bridger searched for child abuse and rape images.

Campaigners backed the call as Google said it has a "zero tolerance" policy to child sexual abuse content.

Mr Carr, a member of the government's Council on Child Internet Safety, said Google and other search engines should reset their default search setting to the safest option - blocking access to legal as well as illegal sexual images.

Those wanting to reach such material would have to register to search for other content, which would deter many from doing so, he argued.

Mr Carr told BBC Radio 4's Today programme internet search engines did prevent access to web addresses that contain child abuse images.

But he said one of the "key routes" paedophiles used to find content was through adverts containing "code words" that are placed on legal hardcore pornography sites.

He said: "Google's moral leadership is essential here. They are the biggest player in this space in the world. If they did it, I think others would have to follow."[...]

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Internet porn: Automatic block rejected.
Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported.

A public consultation found 35% of parents wanted an automatic bar while 15% wanted some content filtered, and an option to block other material.

But the government says internet providers should encourage parents to switch on parental controls.

Claire Perry, the MP who led the campaign, said she was "disappointed".

The NSPCC said parents' voices were not being heard.

There were more than 3,500 responses to the 10-week consultation - which included those from members of the public, academics, charities and communication firms as well as 757 from parents.

Respondents were asked to answer "yes", "no" or "maybe" to three separate questions about how internet service providers (ISP) could play a role in limiting access.

An automatic block would mean users would have to actively request that pornographic content was made available by their ISP.

Mrs Perry, the Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, led the campaign and handed over a petition to Downing Street containing more than 115,000 names.

She chaired the cross-party Independent Parliamentary Inquiry on Online Child Protection which concluded in April that government and ISPs needed to do more to keep children safe online.

She told BBC News she was "obviously disappointed that the opt-in option has been rejected" but she added: "Clearly that was not the preferred choice of the 3,500 people who responded to the consultation and we have to base policy on what's been received not what we want."[...]

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Porn, piracy and the internet culture wars.
On the Today Programme this morning you could hear the sound of a great cultural divide opening up over the policing of the internet. Following the court ruling ordering Internet Service Providers to block access to the Pirate Bay, the programme invited a politician and a representative from the internet industry to discuss the issues raised.

The politician was Claire Perry MP, who has been leading the fight to get internet providers to do more to police the internet and protect children from pornography. She squared up to Nicholas Lansman of the Internet Service Providers Association - surprise, surprise, none of the big ISPs seemed keen to put their heads above the parapet.

The discussion did not really focus on the practicalities of blocking The Pirate Bay - which many in the internet industry believe will be ineffective - but on the responsibility of ISPs in general to act against any illegality online.

Mrs Perry, who wants internet users to have to opt in to access to pornography, insisted that this was not about web censorship of the kind we see in Burma or China but about giving parents the ability to protect children. Mr Lansman pointed out that his industry was giving consumers the filtering tools to block access to pornographic material, but was not keen to impose their use, or to end up policing the internet.

Now there's little doubt that Mrs Perry speaks for a wide strand of public opinion which would like to see internet firms be more proactive in child protection. The Daily Mail, with its instinct for Middle England's concerns, has given her campaign vigorous backing.

But just look at the reaction on Twitter and in emails to this morning's debate, and you will see a rather different view. Many believed the discussion showed a fundamental lack of understanding of the internet, and some that it was the job of parents, not ISPs, to block children's access to unsuitable internet sites. "You want DIY stores to be responsible for what buyers of crowbars do with them," asked one tweeter.

And as for the Pirate Bay blocking orders, there was widespread outrage online at the very idea that the music industry should act to stop consumers getting access to copyright material. "UK ISP blocking of #piratebay is the beginning of the end - equivalent to China's censorship policy. What's next?" read one message.

In summary, there is a gulf opening up between two views of the internet. On the one side, you've got those who feel strongly that there needs to be far more effective regulation, with action to block access to certain websites, and child protection trumping any concerns about censorship.

On the other, a libertarian strand online is opposed to any limits on how individuals use the internet, and views action to prevent access to copyright material or pornography as not only ineffective but morally wrong.

On some issues - notably government plans for greater web surveillance - some of the pro-regulation camp will shift to the libertarian side. But, as media firms step up their battle against piracy and popular newspapers demand action from politicians on web filtering, the internet culture wars are going to get more heated.

Irony Be My Shield posted:

There was a case of a man who watched a bunch of child pornography online, and then the Daily Mail's Amanda Platell went searching for child porn online to prove just how easy it was to find. Current consensus is that she actually mistook a comercial and entirely legal American porn video for child porn, which would be lucky for her as otherwise what she did would get her thrown in jail.

Now I think there's a bunch of stuff about how Google isn't doing enough to block it, I think.

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Express:

Weldon Pemberton posted:

Grabbing it by the neck, the best way to handle a raven.

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baka kaba posted:

It's a fox - seems like his new thing. There's one on the queen cartoon too on the crown. He's improved his output 100% by doubling the number of animals he hides, must be looking for a pay rise!

goatface posted:

Just a giant animal picture you have to hunt for the political cartoon in.

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Express:

Kegluneq posted:

(Spoilers: The new Doctor will be an English white male.)

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Express:


...Vixen outshines old bird???

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Her right arm is some kind of terminator style screw weapon? Also only four fingers on the left hand...?

Although I love the look on Charles' face: "I never upstaged anyone "

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Guardian:

Express:


...Vixen outshines old bird???

BastardySkull posted:

He should just draw a flag and a member of the royals and submit that every week, he basically does anyway.

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Independent:


Lobbying scandal continues.

Stottie Kyek posted:

There's about a hundred similar ones, like Take A Break, Heat and Closer. Full of really dumbed-down news items, celebrity stalking a la Mail Online, scary medical columns about how YOU could have some rare tropical disease, and voyeuristic reports of real-life stories (ie scaremongering).

My mum reads DIVA - it says something about the press that the only decent women's magazine a straight woman can find is one aimed at lesbians, because it isn't filled with dangerously wrong medical advice or crazy ways to please men (oddly enough those mags never include the phrase "ask him what he wants").

Hong XiuQuan posted:

Draw a venn diagram of The Sun and Daily Mail readers and anyone who falls in the middle is your target market.

FullLeatherJacket posted:

Other good editorial lines include - Your Heating Bill, And Why It's Going Up; Why The Concept Of Change Is Inherently Bad; Why Being British Is Much Better Than Being Foreign; The Insidious Nature Of The French; The Colour Of The Queen's Hat; and, of course, Fresh New Stories About Princess Diana Only Sixteen Years After Her Death

Party Boat posted:

There's also a handy flow chart for the editor in a hurry:

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‘That’s strange. I was told they were going to open a pub at this service station’

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onoflalks posted:

There's a fox or something in the chamber, what the gently caress.

I hate how he does a few characters vaguely realistically and then everybody else is cartoony as gently caress looking like a Beano character or something.

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Telegraph:


Gov.uk: New penalties to tackle tailgating and middle lane hogging

Clapham Omnibus posted:

I love that the (possibly unintentional) implication here is that Clegg has crashed by taking his party too far to the left.