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Martin Burns

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User since: April 26, 1999

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In a comprehensive show of sense today, the European Parliament voted unanimously against blocking technologies as a legitimate means by which member states can regulate Internet content.

ISPs will instead continue to self-regulate content hosted by their services.

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Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

at last some common sense...

Submitted by redux on April 12, 2002 - 14:50.

...i'm so glad the ISPs didn't join the hype bandwagon. any form of censorship is bad (whatever the "well meaning" ulterior motives). good show !

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...censorship...? where?

Submitted by axelr8 on April 12, 2002 - 23:41.

Since the Internet Legislation was passed here in Australia (1-Jan-2000) I have been with 3 or 4 ISPs and not once have I been denied access to any website. The only difference I have noticed is that most ISPs these days have a We recommend (insert client-side content filter here).

So where is this so called censorship??

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Censorship in Germany

Submitted by Robbes on April 13, 2002 - 05:04.

We had censorship here in NRW (Germany) recently, some ISPs blocked some racist sites by changing DNS entries. To make things worse, those ISPs blocked those sites because the government asked them to. There was a demonstration against this a week ago, I don't know what will happen now. We'll wait and hope...

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Censorship in NRW

Submitted by marneus on April 19, 2002 - 07:31.

I also heard from the censorship in NRW - does it affect the whole county or only some parts of NRW? If they just change DNS entries it should be possible to bypass these "restrictions" with another DNS, shouldn't it?

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Censorship in NRW

Submitted by Robbes on April 19, 2002 - 11:20.

Only some parts, to be exactly: everybody who uses those few providers that block content. And yes, if you use some other DNS you can get the content.

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