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• On the post: Pixel Piracy Makers Offer Pirates Pirated Pirate Game

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2013 @ 11:29am

  Re:

  Good God that is a real tongue twister

• On the post: NSA Is Tracking Mobile Phone Location On So Many People It Can't Handle The Data Storage

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2013 @ 03:34pm

  How exactly does having so much data that you struggle to store and process it keep the country safe?

• On the post: Xbox, PS4 Games Hitting Swearing Gamers With Technical Fouls

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2013 @ 11:25am

  One of the many reasons I will never bother with any form of online gaming.

• On the post: UK Parliament Makes A Mockery Of Itself Interrogating Guardian Editor

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2013 @ 02:29pm

  The Guardian are not the story here.
  Edward Snowden is not the story here.
  
  The story is the gross invasion of innocent people's privacy by the US and UK intelligence services. We must not get distracted by the idiocy of apologists.

• On the post: Lindsay Lohan Is Reportedly Asking Her Lawyers About Going After GTA5 For Non-Portrayal

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2013 @ 02:27pm

  All characters and events portrayed in this game are fictional. Any resemblance to real life is coincidental.
  
  Isn't that on all fictional works these days?

• On the post: NSA Gave Employees Ridiculous 'Talking Points' To Spread Among Friends And Family Over The Holidays

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2013 @ 07:04am

  Indoctrination at it's finest. It's not just for religion anymore.

• On the post: Hollywood Studio Bosses Ask Obama To Help Improve Relationship With Silicon Valley… While Pressing TPP That Will Harm Silicon Valley

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 04:01pm

  They only want to improve the relationship on their terms and to their benefit only.

• On the post: Clueless French Court Orders Search Engines To Disappear Entire Sites For Copyright Infringement

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 05:16am

  Re: Still won't work...

  New sites don't even need to pop up. This isn't a take down like the Megaupload case or even ISP level filtering like is happening in the UK.
  
  This is forcing a couple of search engines to remove allegedly infringing sites from their search results.
  
  All people have to do is use a different search engine or, better yet, bookmark their favourite site.

• On the post: Facebook Needs To Learn It Can't Teach Tolerance By Acting As An Overzealous Censor

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 11:19am

  Governments need to learn the exact same thing.

• On the post: Clueless French Court Orders Search Engines To Disappear Entire Sites For Copyright Infringement

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 03:55am

  Still cannot grasp what search engines are.
  
  Next, they will be ordering the removal of criminals' phone numbers from the phone book.

• On the post: Increasing European Moves To Block Access To Websites Accused Of Helping People Infringe Copyrights

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2013 @ 02:00pm

  Re: Re:

  Precisely, we are already hurtling down a slippery slope with no sign of slowing down.

• On the post: Increasing European Moves To Block Access To Websites Accused Of Helping People Infringe Copyrights

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2013 @ 01:39pm

  And UK ministers are to order ISPs to block 'extremist' or 'terrorist' websites.
  
  http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/27/ministers-order-isps-block-terrorist-websites
  
  What I would like to know is who decides what are terrorist or extremist websites.

• On the post: Facing Backlash And A UK Govt Inquiry, LG Now Claims To Be 'Looking Into' Its Smart TVs' Data-Slurping Habits

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 03:37pm

  Tell you what though. I will never ever buy a smart TV. The only devices I want connected to the Internet are my computer and my tablet.

• On the post: Facing Backlash And A UK Govt Inquiry, LG Now Claims To Be 'Looking Into' Its Smart TVs' Data-Slurping Habits

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2013 @ 03:35pm

  UK govt launching an inquiry into LG while attacking the Guardian for their publication of the Snowden leaks.
  
  You really couldn't make this stuff up.

• On the post: Study Of 11K Children: Video Games Probably Don't Alter Behavior

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2013 @ 10:01am

  Wonder will this make a blind bit of difference to politicians. I very greatly doubt it. After all, the entertainment industries ignore study after study debunking their propaganda.

• On the post: Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 09:19am

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  I ask again, how is blocking a few search terms on a search engine going to stop child abuse content and make children safer? Leaving aside, of course, that this content is already blocked by the BT cleanfeed system.

• On the post: Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 09:04am

  Re: Re: Re:

  And yet you seem to support this kind of hand wringing idiocy.

• On the post: Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 08:51am

  Re:

  "Stop the problem at its source"
  
  How, exactly, is blocking search terms on a search engine stopping the problem at the source?
  
  This is nothing but authoritarian hand wringing designed to appease the knuckle dragging morons who read the Daily Mail and the like. It will accomplish nothing.

• On the post: Google Announces More Child Porn Blocking Efforts While David Cameron Offers To Throw The GCHQ At The Problem

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 08:48am

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  Let's not forget that the greatest threat to children comes from someone known to the child. The overwhelming majority of cases of child abuse involve a family member, family friend or person of authority abusing their position of trust.
  
  Cameron is focusing on the minority threat while ignoring the majority threat (not that the threat comes from Google anyway), and that will leave children in more danger.

• On the post: UK Conservative Party Decides To Memory Hole Its YouTube Presence As Well

  

  Zakida Paul ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 09:02am

  Two years to general election and the main political parties don't want the plebs remembering all those broken promises.
  
  Ironically, the material is available elsewhere and deleting them from their own site will only draw people's attention to it.
  
  Pathetic lack of understanding of what the Internet is.

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