http://helpdesk.illinoisstate.edu/kb/1681/Setting_up_a_whitelist_filter_in_Thunderbird/

you don't need some govt to tell ( companies | you ) what ( they | you ) can or can not do.

NO - you, the user, need to learn how to properly setup and use your browser.

Cookie-Whitelist in Mozilla Firefox setting up a cookie whitelist in Firefox requires no add-ons. It uses default functionality present in Firefox.

soon he will change his status to single again (i like that), because he couldn't poke his wife.

correct - in the netherlands "the pirate bay" and parts of the website of a political party are censored.

https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/brein-wins-democracy-loses/

you tell me which is worse.

and how is this different from internet censorship in belgium, the uk and the netherlands?

https://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/brein-wins-democracy-loses/

in response to mr toews comment "this is the bill that you either support, 'or you stand with the child pornographers.'".

Life isn't black and white. It's a million shades of grey.

what mr toews needs to learn here is that there is at least one more opinion: i do not support child pornography and i do not support a surveillance society.

govts all over the world - stop giving us these black and white choices. it ain't that easy.

why are you posting as AC? this is the only sensible post i've read in this thread. my isp actually provides a speedtest page which is located on a server within their network. 26ms away from my computer.

i cancelled my "partnership" with google two days ago. i am happily using duckduckgo now ...

you don't.

same as europeans do not seem to care.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/0157232/europe-agrees-to-send-airline-passenger-data-to-us

ingres? what does ingres have to do with this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

SQL was developed in 1974. oracle corp was founded in 1977.

IBM vs oracle.