Last week, we reported that Boing Boing was blocked by entire countries including the United Arab Emirates, and by many library systems, schools, US government and military sites, and corporations.
Today, we've learned that Internet Qatar, the sole ISP in the State of Qatar, has also banned BoingBoing.
We've heard from librarians in Africa who want to watch the video of the American Register of Copyrights denouncing Congress, employees at the Australian Broadcasting Company, students, and workers around the world who can't gain access to our work.
While I don't think I'm quite ready to do what this post suggests to use as a protest icon?
One of my favorite statues of Psyche....
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If words can spread the message....go for full frontal nudity? A bit Pythonish don't you think?
Probably but I wasn't going to post the close up picture of David. Even though in whole it's art? I went with psyche instead.
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I completely understand. His face is so droll. OH! We weren't talking about his face. (Bashful blush)
Of course with the David icon, it could send a suggestive message of what most of the world thinks of the US already. Wait for it. BING! There, you got it. ;)
Of course, this is the land where former attorney general John Ashcroft ordered a drape placed over the semi-nude Statue of Justice.
Hey Lisa - did you get any uptick in collateral traffic from the today?
Subcomandante Bob, for those unaware, got an insane traffic boost by getting a 1-day link to Fark.com, the Internet's busiest weird news/humor site. A site that had about 6700 visitors yesterday is now approaching 33,000, all in one day.
The historymike site got about 30 new visitors from the link on the Collegian, but most stayed for less than a minute.
Exactly....
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I definitely prefer the Pysche statue myself, the close-up of David...seems tasteless even if it is art.
I understand their point, but I'd have to agree with you Stephanie which is why I picked something a bit different.
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Mike that was strange, your post appeared out of no where - lol
I had about my usual number of visits today. Maybe the name Liberal Common Sense scared off the Farkers.
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Sorry - I coded like crap on that one.
I got about 30 direct links from the Fark article, but not many stayed for very long.
Back to topic:
I am amazed at how prudish we have become in the past two decades or so. Is this a backlash against the 1960s and 1970s, a fear-of-AIDS thing, or just a cycle of fundamentalism?
I don't think it was you I think it was blogspot, that earlier post still hasn't shown up in my email but the one you just did has.
I understand trying to rid pornographic images from being accessed by children. However I think as the Boing Boing articles show that it has gone to far. Blocking entire sites as a way to censor material especially in whole countries to me is an almost throw the baby out with the bathwater manner of trying to deal with it.
However I did draw the line creating my own censorship by not using the zoomed in portion of David's penis deciding to go with Psyche instead. David in whole to me is art, his nakedness is a part of the whole piece rather than focusing on just one area. So, I can't say alot without being a hypocrit.
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"I am amazed at how prudish we have become in the past two decades or so."
Some of us have always been prudish and the passages of time in inmaterial.
As for myself, I just don't like pornography, never have. And, I don't see focusing on a specific part of a statue as being that much different than focusing on a specific part of a person. You lose the whole, which is more important than the part.
...is immaterial..
I want to get Farked.
I try to avoid the potentially offensive stuff on my site.
Supposedly David has the perfectly proportioned male body. I am not sure of that because the man in the mirror told me that I did
I'm sure you are perfect to your wife and the man in the mirror.
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