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Comment Let's just get it over with! (Score 1) 257

Please excuse my cynical response, but why don't they just ban all software that can be used to create anything, all cameras, all microphones. How about pencils, paper, paint and brushes too? Everything you can conceivably use to (re)produce any media whatsoever? Heck, just ban eyes and ears too. That'll solve the problem. Once nobody can record or play back anything, media will be safe. There was once this fable about the goose that laid golden eggs... but if I tell it somebody will undoubtedly sue me for copyright infringement.

Comment Re:No Thanks To Discrimination (Score 1) 244

Agreed. As somebody with a "pre-existing" condition, I see no reason to give the insurance company - or any other person or entity, for that matter - more ammunition to use against me. I've already got enough hurdles to jump over. I know that my condition has been used against me on a couple occasions (but I can't prove it). Not interested in any DNA test, thanks. As for laws against using such personal information in a negative or discriminatory way, the only law followed by many is "don't get caught."
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EU "Clean IT" Project Considers Terrorist Content Database 101

schliz writes "Internet users could contribute to an official blacklist of suspected terrorist content under a budding 'Clean IT' project, backed by the European Commission. Participating governments are putting together 13 proposals in a text that commits web hosts, search engines and ISPs to helping to weed out content that incites acts of terror. From the article: 'Among those 13 courses of action is a proposal for a system that will allow users to "flag" content they believe to be illegal when surfing the web. These alarms would be sent for review to the service provider and in turn, a government agency.'"

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