AT and T Begins Internet Censorship

Ok, so I was just browsing the internet, minding my own business, when I can accross an article on Reddit saying how AT&T is blocking access to a certain website.

And I was like "what?". I'm a Time Warner customer myself and have no desire to spend time on said blocked website, but even though it isn't exactly the best website on the internet (far from in my opinion) for many, many reasons, allowing AT&T to do this sets a scary precedent. Who is AT&T to start deciding what websites people should be allowed to access? Today it's AT&T and that website, but who knows, tomorrow it may be Comcast or Time Warner and a site that I actually like.

What are your thoughts, and what do you think should be done about this? Is this even legal?

Nobody will be able to make the internet legal.

People will find ways around that censor, and probably every other one that will ever be placed. They gave us to much freedom with the internet, and we used it.

I think there was a great article about this titled "The Internet Allows for a Free Exchange of Unmitigated Information."

Sounds stupid to me. People should be able to go to any site whenever they want to. (as long as the site is legal)

I could have seen something like this coming. Someone should ask them if they own the Internet. They shouldn't have a say in my opinion and could even make them lose business. They'll probly start charging more for total access!

I think there was a great article about this titled "The Internet Allows for a Free Exchange of Unmitigated Information."

metroidfood

What the hell?? This ain't North Korea!!! :x

BTW, what site was it? Curious now...

Kind of ironic isn't as those folks sometimes dedicate themselves to harassing folks or hacking other sites trying to remove them from the internet...

What the hell?? This ain't North Korea!!! :x

BTW, what site was it? Curious now...

elblanquito_81

what site was it?FUBAR24

The only thing that should be censored is kiddie porn (hope we can all agree on that)

Other than that, I support the whole freedom of information thing.

So unless you were looking at little kids in an inappropriate way, you should boycott AT&T.

I think the only time internet providers can censor anything is if the federal government mandates it so.

Just say it's ___________ for christ sake. Now kids, don't visit this site as it's full of naught stuff, ok, I'm not liable anymore. I would like to discuss this without being around the bush about what site it is we're talking about. It's a vital detail to everything, especially if we talk about censorship and censor ourselves about what everyone already knows.

Now that this is out of the way, censorship is not the internet provider's responsibility, and once one thing is censored, everything else is so much easier to censor. 1 site, then 5 sites, then every other site is on a black list. Also, with a blacklist comes a whitelist. A holy list of sites that pay these people, essentially giant advertisement to be the goodguys.

Few people have the power to say what's right and wrong, and corperations like this definetly don't. Lots of ___________ is just BS anyways. Urban legends about the scary dark corner of the internet, when really it's just a bunch of people loling at everything that gets posted, with the name anonymous slapped on to make it seem edgy. Crime rings don't take place there, they're not a center for terrorist organizations, They're not rapist and robbers. It's just all a bad image they want to be painted with.

Apparently, _______ is on gamespot's list, so to avoid bannination, I'll put blanks in here, but highly request that we can mention the name.

Is it the website I think it is? If so, everyone should be blocked from that website.

[QUOTE="metroidfood"]

I think there was a great article about this titled "The Internet Allows for a Free Exchange of Unmitigated Information."

West-Coast-G

[QUOTE="elblanquito_81"]

What the hell?? This ain't North Korea!!! :x

BTW, what site was it? Curious now...

West-Coast-G

what site was it?FUBAR24

That "certain site" is the scum of the internet. Literally.

Ok, so I was just browsing the internet, minding my own business, when I can accross an article on Reddit saying how AT&T is blocking access to a certain website.

West-Coast-G

What website?

what the hell is that site? I don't want to go myself if it is that bad...as in don't want that stuff on my computerrawsavon

Please censor my quote, I'd like to not get banned. And ________ is a website where people all given the name anonymous can post pretty much whatever pictures they want. It's a source of a lot but not all internet memes, or at least where they go to get popular, and is also a site made out to be the scary dark corner of the internet full of crime and rapist and terrorism. I wouldn't suggest going there as a lot of people post shock images "for the lulz" but it has nothing to do with terrorist organizations or rape or anything. Pictures of illegal stuff like child porn get deleted anyways so it's not like it's unmoderated.

Unless this hasn't taken place yet, I just went to that website, and I have AT&T, so. . .

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]what the hell is that site? I don't want to go myself if it is that bad...as in don't want that stuff on my computerkittykatz5k

Please censor my quote, I'd like to not get banned. And ________ is a website where people all given the name anonymous can post pretty much whatever pictures they want. It's a source of a lot but not all internet memes, or at least where they go to get popular, and is also a site made out to be the scary dark corner of the internet full of crime and rapist and terrorism. I wouldn't suggest going there as a lot of people post shock images "for the lulz" but it has nothing to do with terrorist organizations or rape or anything. Pictures of illegal stuff like child porn get deleted anyways so it's not like it's unmoderated.

"That place" is what's wrong with the Internet. I can't believe it hasn't been closed down ... And I wouldn't really consider this censorship.

link to article?

my webhost has a block against using any kind of torrent downloader for the mere fact that quite a lot of illegal activity is doen due to torrents. IT is also illegal to walk through the town with a gun due to the fact that a lot of illegal activity would be done because of that.

That "certain site" is the scum of the internet. Literally.

Furi-Kun

[QUOTE="Furi-Kun"]

That "certain site" is the scum of the internet. Literally.

kittykatz5k

Trust me, I know _____ too well. It's a scary place.

I dont know what the website is, but if they are blocking it must be pretty bad.
One things though, ATT is falling apart, they are constantly upping their commision requirements for their customer service agents and they are severely restricting refunding and making good customer service harder and harder. I knowa customer service agent from canadaand over the last two months it has gone to hell.She does customer service for Texas and Oklahoma and theyhave their canadian agents say they are from New York lol.

I think there was a great article about this titled "The Internet Allows for a Free Exchange of Unmitigated Information."

metroidfood

[QUOTE="kittykatz5k"][QUOTE="Furi-Kun"]

That "certain site" is the scum of the internet. Literally.

Furi-Kun

Trust me, I know _____ too well. It's a scary place.

Do you, or are you just talking from friends who want to paint it as the dark evil place, we may never know, but your description of it is no doubt one that resembles someone who saw a certain laughable fox news report on it. I won't say they're perfectly friendly people, they're not, but they have no reason to get the terrorist treatment outside of hype that people who think they know what they're talking about give it.

[QUOTE="Furi-Kun"]

[QUOTE="kittykatz5k"] You need to learn what literally is as _______ is not in fact a impurity floating on the top of water and happy to see someone took to the hype fox news gives it.kittykatz5k

Trust me, I know _____ too well. It's a scary place.

Do you, or are you just talking from friends who want to paint it as the dark evil place, we may never know, but your description of it is no doubt one that resembles someone who saw a certain laughable fox news report on it. I won't say they're perfectly friendly people, they're not, but they have no reason to get the terrorist treatment outside of hype that people who think they know what they're talking about give it.

I've been there exactly one time.

One guy posted a picture of a man doing very, very disgusting (and sexual) things to an infant.

He was praised.

[QUOTE="Furi-Kun"]

[QUOTE="kittykatz5k"] You need to learn what literally is as _______ is not in fact a impurity floating on the top of water and happy to see someone took to the hype fox news gives it.kittykatz5k

Trust me, I know _____ too well. It's a scary place.

Do you, or are you just talking from friends who want to paint it as the dark evil place, we may never know, but your description of it is no doubt one that resembles someone who saw a certain laughable fox news report on it. I won't say they're perfectly friendly people, they're not, but they have no reason to get the terrorist treatment outside of hype that people who think they know what they're talking about give it.

I used to go there time and time again. Now I'm sick of it and I'm trying to recover from the damages.

[QUOTE="kittykatz5k"]

[QUOTE="Furi-Kun"]

Trust me, I know _____ too well. It's a scary place.

Theokhoth

Do you, or are you just talking from friends who want to paint it as the dark evil place, we may never know, but your description of it is no doubt one that resembles someone who saw a certain laughable fox news report on it. I won't say they're perfectly friendly people, they're not, but they have no reason to get the terrorist treatment outside of hype that people who think they know what they're talking about give it.

I've been there exactly one time.

One guy posted a picture of a man doing very, very disgusting (and sexual) things to an infant.

He was praised.

Not even ________ gets away with creating child porn, the picture existed outside of __________ and in 5 minutes, an hour tops, was deleted. In the mean time, everyone luled at the picture believing themselves to be some bad people and moved on. I could post the same thing on gamespot. Time it right, I could have it sit here for hours and call gamespot an evil site by the same logic. What some people don't realize is that ______ still has moderation to it.