GodHatesFags.com
Posted on: January 31, 2009 - 7:36pm
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So I'm at work...and the internet cloud here is censored to a large degree. I can't even go to Flickr or Photobucket because it's labelled 'social networking'...or the Pirate Bay because of the label 'hacking'. It's funny just to see that a lot of the sites I want to visit while killing a little time are blocked somehow or another. I guess I'm sorta surprised that I can even get to THIS site...I work in a Catholic Hospital.
Anyway...I was on skype and Michael mentioned that the GodHatesFags.com was down. So I went to see if that was true. Here is what I found:
Web Filter
This web page was blocked because it is considered inappropriate.
Host:www.godhatesfags.comURL:http://www.godhatesfags.com/Reason:Violence! LOL...the site is marked as VIOLENT!!!!! I love it! They suck.
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Strictly speaking from a government common law standpoint:
I'd actually have to have seen the word content. Most servers should not sensor websites if they are merely being offensive. It may be that the actuall language contained language advocating violence.
godhatesfags.com is merely offensive as a title of a website. There is also a website called atheismsucks and this website for sure is seen as offensive by many theists of all labels.
So if they were taken down, then the actual language went beyond merely being offensive. Otherwise if being offensive were enough, government could shut this site down.
NOW, that is not to say that a server may not like the content, as a private orgainization, they can turn anyone down, most of the time most major servers dont, because their policy terms of use allow for diverse and dissenting views.
We cant be a society that demands that our government protect us from being offended. Otherwise the majority of Christians could easly ban websites like this.
BTW fyi, an atheist website out of Turkey was banned by the government because it blasphemed Islam. So in your rightfull blasting of bigotry, be carefull about what tactic you use to combat it.
The worst thing any minority can do in any society is to demand government blasphemy laws because those in the majority will be the first to use it to silence you.
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Where in the world do you live?
I'm not saying I like the fact that my interwebs are censored like that...but I feel lucky to HAVE a job AND this happens to be the case when I'm AT this job. I wish I could look at any and all content on the web, but I cannot. This is NOT my government blocking this site...just to be clear.
I just thought it was funny that the reason was violence. Because I cannot think of a better way to classify it...but I had never pared it down to one word.
I live in Georgia, US.
Wow, this site has WAY too many sound bites. I can't move my mouse other something without it fucking singing at me.
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
"WBC to picket the Godless Grammy Awards, LA - Feb 8"
Dammit, I was JUST in LA this past weekend; if only I had stayed I could have given these idiots a piece of my mind, heh. I also love their alliteration with "Godless Grammy Awards." I think we should adopt that as the official name. Maybe then all the award recipients will stop thanking God.
As a little varient on the blocking/censorship theme I just clicked the link and one of the addons I have on firefox, called Web of Trust, threw up a warning on it too, one of them being for truthfulness.