Re: Say it ain't so: Censorship in America

["John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP" <bambenek.infosec () gmail com>]

I'm not saying the implementation was intelligent, I am saying it's not
censorship and quit your whining.  It's not the taxpayers job to facilitate
people's pervsities... pay for your own porn.  Don't like it, by all means,
hook up your smart phone and get online that way.  Or better yet, go
f****ing masturbate at home.

j

On 3/14/08, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 04:53:01PM -0500, John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP
> wrote:
> > Since when did the requirement of 100% success become the bar that must
> be
> > crossed for any policy?  If you really believed 100% effectiveness was
> > required before anything was initiated, we'd have to give up on
> information
> > security all together.
>
> I don't regard this (censorship of web sites at DIA) as even partial
> "effectiveness": I regard it as 100% failure, since it attempts
> to solve the wrong problem in the wrong way for the wrong reasons.
> And their accompanying poorly-reasoned explanation clearly indicates
> that they don't realize any of this.
>
> I'm not surprised.  When the "for the children" drum beats, rational
> thinking is quickly drowned out.  The inevitable result of this is
> that actions which actually *could* benefit children are passed over
> in favor of those which merely *look like* they benefit children.
> Then: applause, vacuous self-congratulations all around, rinse, repeat.
>
> ---Rsk
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