"government" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

Score one for the industry and the Free Speech Coalition! The AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s misguided attempt to require porn performers to wear condoms has hit a major snag. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has dismissed their petition saying that the government knows how to deal with public health issues and that the use

Online piracy had gotten the French government so edgy that they resort to exercising some tough love to its citizens. If individuals are caught downloading and patronizing pirated material, they will have their time in court to be reprimanded, or, worse, sentenced for jail time.

Where China has been effective in weeding out internet porn, they have no such luck with its mobile counterpart. The always informative Kathee Brewer reports the snags that China's anti-porn campaign has to disentangle itself from in dealing with porn on mobile devices. At this point, it is only sheer will of those supporting the cause that seems to push this agenda forward.

Tom Hymes doesn't outwardly editorialize but he can sneak in his two cents' worth in his article about China's wholesale shuttering of porn sites in Chinese cyberspace. So far, their handiwork had led them to close down 13,000 porn sites and arrested 5,400 suspects related to porn in China.

Sometimes we tend to forget that the porn industry doesn't just operate in the US and Europe. There are also porn producers in far off countries like the Philippines and Vietnam. Though they operate on the same set of rules, they also have to contend with more stringent moralistic anti-porn laws. What happened to its owners would not happen to anyone here in the US.

You know what the problem with legislation in governments? They create laws that sound good in paper but never good in reality. Take this new anti-porn laws in Indonesia, for instance. The law supposedly persecutes any form of pornographic material. In order to put teeth into the law, they have arrested a bunch of exotic dancers and the club manager where they work.

Okay, I have watched prior episodes of now defunct Big Brother Australia and what happens in that show is worthy enough for a few scenes in porn. Things can get raunchy at a drop of a hat! And to think that's free television. So I am not surprised when something like this happens.

And world government's wave of porn censorship continues. This time it's in India. Sue Denim writes an article about an amendment of their Information Technology Act that prohibits the publication of sexually explicit material in newsstands and in the Internet.

In what may be a hilarious turn of events, the British government has discovered that their police force has been sneaking time watching internet porn during office hours. As the article lays out the number of people accessing inappropriate sites per department, you could almost hear Sue Denim cackling as she writes this article.

The dream of having high-speed Internet access for everyone has been put on hold for four more weeks. While this national plan may be long overdue, getting it right at the onset may just be more prudent. After all, a lot of stakeholders, including telecommunications companies and Internet companies will be affected by the plan, specifically regarding net neutrality.