Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt22

Just got back from 4 weeks in the UK/EU and away from things online and notice this topic has incremented 6 digits in my absence – far too much for me to try and catch up on.

So, have the ILCF trials commenced yet ? If so, any reported results as yet ?

Although I'm happy to discover that my comment to the DBCDE site was published while I was away ( see:
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/industry_development/digital_economy/future_directions_blog/topics/minister_tanners_welcome/derspatz ) I certainly was not very happy to discover the kind of stuff that was broadcast on public access French TV after midnight.

Let's just say that I've never encountered anything like it by either accident or design in over two decades of "online" participation, and yes, just like with every other kind of pr0n I've ever been exposed to, I've "been harmed" by it.

Thus, my current view as I type is that perhaps it is now totally pointless to try and control/moderate the internut when some countries are apparently broadcasting free to air certain kinds of information that should never have ever been imagined let alone filmed.

I will agree that implementing ILCF could be deemed akin to the tale of the dutch boy plugging up a hole in a dyke (see: http://www.thehollandring.com/hans-brinker-story.shtml ) but with a new twist being that the waters are already about to pour over the very top due to a storm surge anyway.

Pointless.

The trouble is, morally even such things so easily judged as "pointless" on one level, should still be attempted even if doomed to failure, yes ?

regarDS