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Old 07-17-2010, 11:15 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by halfpint View Post
See this is something that would be very hard to regulate across the world as things that are illegal here in the UK might be legal in another country unless they "geo regulate it" somehow

But I think in the not to far future this will start to happen with search results as they try their hardest to censor the internet
I'm sure it can be done if needed. Didn't China insist Google blocked some subjects?

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Originally Posted by halfpint View Post
Well I guess our goverments already censor information and content, not necessary on the net but whats to stop them from doing exactly the same on the net in the future
Spot on, what makes the Internet so different that it should be a free for all. And a free for all is the last thing we want.
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