Britain's New Censorship Laws - Soon Coming to Canada?

The UK has been pushing laws to censor the internet, from a new angle.

Instead of putting censors on your computer, or having to call the cable provider to block the things you don't want, they are approaching it the opposite way.

All cable providers will now block pornography, and the likes, automatically, unless you call them up and specifically request access to it.

And now, Joy Smith, a Canadian politician, is pushing for these laws to come to Canada.

Personally, I think it is a great idea to protect kids this way, by not allowing the stuff into the house, unless specifically requested...

But everyone knows that Daddy is going to get that added into the plan, the first week that Mommy goes away for business...and once its in the house, we are back to square one.

Daddy's excuse?

"I have no idea how that got there."

Brooklyn Judaism Has Hit Britain

Many years ago in Brooklyn, at a ShopRite located on the border of Flatbush and Boro Park, a controversy arose.

For those that don't know Flatbush and Boro Park are big Jewish communities, that help make up Brooklyn, NY, the largest Jewish community outside of Israel.

The controversy was simple:

The Jewish people that came to the ShopRite didn't want to see the covers of the smutty magazines that were being sold there.

Now, this wasn't just about Playboy and Hustler, this included People and Newsweek.

So ShopRite complied and put black partitions in front of the magazine covers, so that just the titles stuck out, for those looking for the magazine.

In my opinion, this isn't fair to the Magazines, as the way they sell, is on impulse, based on the main story, generally featured on the front page.

And now, Britain has instituted it as well.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/modesty-please-cover-those-sexy-magazine-covers-6C10783170

Seems like the rest of the world is catching up on modesty!

Tune in Wednesday when I discuss the new Porn rules there as well.

The Delusion of Privacy

These days there is a big deal being made on a lot of breaches in security.

From the NSA and Eric Snowden, to Google Glass, to the NYPD storing data, it's becoming an issue to a lot of people.

But I say: WHO ARE YOU KIDDING?!

On a daily basis, you use tools that are provided to you by companies, which can be used in much deeper ways than we can imagine.

Sure, Google Glass is an issue to some, since now you never know when someone may take a picture of you doing stupid.

But remember last week, when you picked your nose on the street corner, thinking no one saw?

Hate to break it to you, but 3 security cameras in store doorways, and one dashboard camera, all saw it, recorded it, and there is nothing you will ever be able to do about that!

Or what about the fact that on Google Maps we can now zoom in so close that we can see people sunbathing in their backyards on satellite view.

And if that is what they are letting us see...imagine what the satellites can really see!

What's that? You also ordered the "Spy Case" that came with cereal boxes as a kid? You know the one I mean, the one with a device to let you pick up sounds across the room.

Well just imagine what spending more than $3.99 on S/H can get you? What if you spent $399 on it? Chances are you can probably hear the sounds of hearts breaking all around the world as Adam Levine announced he was engaged.

Whilst anonymity on these blogs has been a hot topic on this blog and others in the past...just realize that Google knows who you are :) Sure you made a pseudonym to start this account...but you signed into it on the exact same computer that you signed into your real account...and you've done that 629 times before, all within a minute of each other. Odds are, you are the same person.

In this day and age, nothing is private anymore, at least not for long.

Just ask two guys named Spitzer, and appropriately, Wiener.