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#2202428 20-Mar-2019 14:26

Coil:

Side note: (Please everyone stop using the CP word, It really effing tilts me, child abuse is the correct work, pornography is visual material to stimulate sexual excitement and child abuse does not deserve the recognition of sexual excitement)

to be fair, that isn't correct too though?

Straight from DIA site.

An internet and website filtering system known as the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System (DCEFS) to block websites that host child sexual abuse images is being made available voluntarily to New Zealand Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

The DCEFS focuses solely on websites offering clearly objectionable images of child sexual abuse, which is a serious offence for anyone in New Zealand to access.

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#2202430 20-Mar-2019 14:27

tdgeek:

The next time I hear the words slippery slope I'll throw my screens out the window

I tell ya mate, This discussion is a slippery slope to getting very frustrated with inanimate objects, like your screen and your window :).

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#2202431 20-Mar-2019 14:30

I hope this slippery slope discussion doesn't gain any traction

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2202433 20-Mar-2019 14:32

sbiddle:

I just pose one question to everybody who believes this is censorship and should not be allowed.

Do you believe that we should screen mail at the border to detect drugs or illicit material which is illegal in NZ? Or to stop somebody simply importing a gun in NZ which would be illegal here? If not, why not?

Do you believe baggage and people should be screened by Customs at the border to to detect drugs or Tillich material which is illegal in NZ? Or to stop somebody simply importing a gun in NZ which would be illegal here? if not, why not?

I simply fail to see how blocking accessing Internet content hosted overseas which may breach NZ law is any different to the rules society has had in place for many decades. I'll completely turn the question around and ask why we don't have Internet censorship already..

Can you overdose on a megabyte? Or kill someone with a meme? Illegal drugs, guns, or any other physical object are very different to binary 1's and 0's on the internet. The internet is purely information, and you cannot kill or physically harm someone with that alone. Seeing as you mention it though, we should have _less_ censorship in New Zealand, on the internet or not. I've argued before that almost everything other than child abuse material should be legalized e.g. if consenting adults want to pee on each other and film it, why is that any of mine or the governments business, yet legally it's no different to child abuse material.

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#2202436 20-Mar-2019 14:34

Thanks everyone for your ideas and opinions.

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