Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt11

The fact that he calls the internet the "internut" should have tipped people off long ago.

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Must be a totally different person on here. On another forum where he and I post he is well known for posting pages and pages

Cheers [deleted] (though I defy you to actually be able to support what you next said with any real data), which means you (and DQ if you care to ask her) can also back me up re: the fact I've been using the word "internut" long before regularly posting at WP.

But back on topic, I can assure all and sundry that I am quite serious (and not "trolling" in even the slightest) that it is right to seek to bring a similar degree of law and order to our online world as we have and support in our offline world.

I don't think that ILCF (ISP Level Content Filtering) is going to be all that successful in that regard but it is a start that needs to be made that shall lead to a more suitable solution down the track.

I'm currently enjoying watching/taping "Bill Gates: how a geek changed the world" as I type this and I am enjoying some cross-over irony here due to Bill's "from nothing" IT beginning through to creating a virtually all controlling business Empire (heh, Empire is a name of a proggy I wrote to control FIDOnet info coming to/from me and whoever else wanted similar control) that shaped the IT environment more by being more rich in cash and marketing ability (etc) than programming skill.

Ironic to me more from the POV of "trail-blaze, empower the people" mindset through to the current "control the market, blat the resistance" mindset that actually in its attempt to stifle IT development, has instead forced radical new ways of approaching it.

Like OpenSource.

Interestingly enough, the program coming on after is all about "Der Waffen SS"; the gestapo and "no mercy" and control via "Fear and Terror" – which is also somewhat topical yes ?

So, I support the rightful attempts at filtering, accept that the ILCF shall fail but lead to something that might not fail so badly, and believe that we are obliged as Decent Human Beings to at least attempt to bring Law and Order and Protection to The Children to every area of common life that requires it.

Which obviously includes the internut.

I confess that I do not want "status quo"; I want change, and change for the better, and I am pragmatic enough to want ILCF to help bring about those necessary changes.

Bill Gates wanted to "Save the world" with his software (etc). HA. Actually, he has instead decided to merely use the money earned from the software to help "save the world" by giving it away to charity and development of better ways to fight diseases like malaria and TB and improving things in "3rd world countries".

He's dedicated $30 BILLION dollars to charity causes that have very little to do with IT let alone the internut (other than the modern tool that it is).

Kinda puts a different perspective on this whole "waa, teh govamin r breakn teh internut" thing going on here, yes ?

Actually, throughout the whole "Bill Gates" program currently showing on SBS as I type this, I've not once conciously heard the word "internet" mentioned !

regarDS