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On Censorship… Sort Of
25.04.2008, 14:21
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: failure, free speech, satire, sexuality, technical difficulties, the internet
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: failure, free speech, satire, sexuality, technical difficulties, the internet
I was a-pondering as I so often do, and I thought I’d share my observations with you all. You see, I’m at a rather conservative university, and much of the Internet’s terrible bounty is unavailable to us. Unfortunately, this often includes some relatively innocuous material like LastFM (user-built radio stations) or Gaia Online (roleplaying game bulletin boards, I think?). Here’s a handy-dandy chart–charts are always funny, right?
| SITE BLOCKED | THE BLOCKER SAYS… | THE REAL REASON | WHAT ISN’T BLOCKED, STRANGELY |
| Xanga | Social/Dating Site | Socialize somewhere else, socialist. | Facebook (It’s what the kids are into these days.) |
| Anthro subsection of deviantART | Nudity; Gay/Lesbian | Yiff in hell, furfag. | Disney |
| Russian musician OMFO | Pornography | OMFO (“Our Man from Odessa”) could be an anagram for mofo, which is a sexual term I believe. | Actual pornography, or so I’ve heard… through the grapevine… |
| YTMND [unblocked] | Tasteless | You, sir, have appallingly bad taste. Shame on you! | Fox News |
| Some manga site | Sexual Materials | At least it’s human… but it’s still not American. You lose. | The Fox News Sexologist (She’s not board-certified, fellas…) |