IRLB Censorship; does it apply to us

BunELovecraft · Post by **BunELovecraft** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:00 am

http://irlb.org/

So lately the government is trying to censor the web and rate everything and fine anybody who does do it. Does this apply to us? Will we have to take down everything and censor it? Even the most tame web comic probably has something that the government would find offensive. It's like Orwells 1984!

So what do you guys think about it? I know I'll have to get onto ftp and take my site down probably. Anybody else?

Avatar007 · Post by **Avatar007** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:07 am

That website makes me laugh and shake my head at the same time. I think they need a proof reader for their ratings.

Web G wrote:This content contains the following: violence (V), sexual situations (S), coarse language (L), sexual dialogue (D).

Not one or more of the following, but all.

. Not to mention that they, for some reason, decided to make "Web G" not mean "General audience".

Bah.

I don't think we'll have to take anything down, but it seems that we may have to add those stupid little black box ratings somewhere on the website. It occurs to me that there will likely be an easy workaround to whatever ruling they make on this.

CaptainClaude · Post by **CaptainClaude** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:10 am

Damn you the government! you take all my websites!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:18 am

I smell hoax. It looks to me like this website sprang up out of nowhere and the language on it is too purposefully Orwellian.

Spriteville, USA · Post by **Spriteville, USA** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:20 am

Sortelli wrote:I smell hoax. It looks to me like this website sprang up out of nowhere and the language on it is too purposefully Orwellian.

Robin Pierce · Post by **Robin Pierce** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:31 am

how is:

intensely suggestive dialogue (D). (web PG)

a step UP from

sexual dialogue (D). (web G)

Iiiiiii don't buy it.

ChibiJess · Post by **ChibiJess** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:31 am

If this were a government website, wouldn't it have the ending ".gov"? Especially if it's a government agency.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:41 am

You been punk'd, BunE! Hope you didn't delete your site yet!

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:45 am

When did that site pop up? Did it, perchance, appear this past Saturday?

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:54 am

It's satire, and pretty lame satire at that. Come on, if the government can't keep people from trading movies and MP3s online, how do they expect to make us start rating our own websites?

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:54 am

<3 being Canadian.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:01 am

Sniff sniff... What is that Awful smell?

Or am I on the wrong trail?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:03 am

ChibiJess wrote:If this were a government website, wouldn't it have the ending ".gov"? Especially if it's a government agency.

I think we need a .consp extention put in use.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:04 am

mcDuffies wrote:
ChibiJess wrote:If this were a government website, wouldn't it have the ending ".gov"? Especially if it's a government agency.
I think we need a .consp extention put in use.

.con would be sufficient, and much more useful.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:09 am

Frighteningly, .con would probably fool people even more for being so close to .com

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:09 am

TdotOdot2k wrote:<3 being Canadian.

Co-signed.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:14 am

Not to mention a bunch of the fees listed on the fees page are for patents and trademarks

. Actually, they seem to be copied from <a href="http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:3x- ... 2">here</a>.

Google is your friend

!

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:51 am

oh right, cause the internet, belongs to america. *chuckles as he prepares for the web protocal USWW dot.

**Edit**

I actually read "article 4356" and I don't know what the hell they are on, but it has nothing to do with web content. Its an amenment on title 18, "the privacy act" which protects people from fraud and criminal activity during disasters, and emergency situations. here's the full thing. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtex ... =h109-4356

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:15 pm

When will people learn that the internet isn't real?

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:18 pm

bustertheclown wrote:When will people learn that the internet isn't real?

Damn....

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