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Oh, no! According to the Blog-Raters at Mingle2, Dialog International is rated inappropriate for children under 17 years of age.
Why? The Blog contains too many mentions of Torture, Death, and Bomb.
Does that mean that any blog that discusses the policies of the Bush Administration is off-limits to children under 17?
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Funny.
My blog requires parental guidance because of
* death (4x)
* dangerous (3x)
* suicide (1x)
According to another test
http://www.smallbusinesshub.com/Tools//tabid/6722/Default.aspx
my blog is for readers with a Graduate Degree.
wer bestimmt so was???
These are the first signs of the impending censorship by the ‘free market’. These ratings may soon be used to feed filter lists by the backbone providers, on public terminals etc. It’s quite possible that in something like 20 years the ‘free west’ will have a comparable level of censorship as China and you’ll need an encrypted multi-proxy connection to access free information.
Only, in China it will still be done as traditionally by the bureaucracy instead of ‘business’.
@ antonym
Don’t be paranoid.
We still are not living in a “1984” world, although it is now 23 years later.
The internet has and always will make be a force for more freedom.
Jorg, I know from your blog that you are most likely one of those child-like Anglo knownothings, as you seem to lack all adult powers of critical enquiry. Why are you hiding behind that “Fulbright Alumni” thing, to appear like an intellectual?
FYI, there already is a leaden amount of net censorship by means of “youth protection” and outright censorship of critical opinion whenever a commercial enterprise is involved.
Notwithstanding the fact that you Anglo-Americans don’t have any meaningful debate spectrum anyway, as there doesn’t exist another country, save maybe North Korea, that imposes such propaganda measures to produce narrow-minded social conformity.
But I don’t expect you to understand that at all, after all your blog is pumping the rightwing hate like oil, right?