Staunching the free flow of information
12/07/2007 @ 12:00 am
The Japanese government is taking steps to adapt current laws in a move to “regulate the Internet.”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications unveiled its plan to submit a bill to the regular Diet session in 2010 aimed at unifying the Telecommunications Business Law, the Broadcast Law and other relevant laws.
The move is aimed at paving the way for the government to regulate the contents on the Net, which has enormous influence on society.
The new legal measures could also affect the distribution of newspaper articles on the Internet.
Here we go. . . No doubt in a few years after all of this goes into effect, the Japanese Internet will be at the same level as Japanese TV.
Face of the Internet in the U.S.
Face of the Internet in Japan
once again the japanese are not doing anything new culturally but rather emulating other retarded nations like the USA.
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9829759-38.html?tag=nefd.top
“The definition of which images qualify as illegal is expansive. It includes obvious child pornography, meaning photographs and videos of children being molested. But it also includes photographs of fully clothed minors in overly “lascivious” poses, and certain obscene visual depictions including a “drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting.” (Yes, that covers the subset of anime called hentai).”
looks like providers of jlist and japundit better watch their ass
December 7th, 2007 at 10:51 amApparently, esotericlarity, you are not very familiar with the culture of information suppression here in Japan. A culture in which a simple question is usually met with suspicion (Why do you want to know?) and even downright hostility (What right do you have to ask?)
December 7th, 2007 at 11:12 amWow, esotericlarity, comments like yours will be definitely censored(let’s call a spade a spade, Ed!) if the Government passes a bill in Japan to monitor internet traffic for ‘unsavory, offensive or illegal materials’.
One of the reasons Japanese TV is so ‘boring’ is that political dissent(they call it politically insensitive or unsavory comments) is not allowed on TV. They only want politically neutral opinions and ideas on broadcast and the print media. Who decides what those standards are? It’s a slippery slope, dude…
More to point. Only the consumers will be made to suffer because people who don’t really understand how to handle WiFi access and hears about this legisilation will cease to offer it as a service because of fear of the $150K fine. Those who are ignorant of the legislation or WiFi access will be punished. And they won’t be punished for intent to break the law, but ignorance. That kind of sucks, doesn’t it? I’m hoping that the Senate has a little more sense than the Representatives. Mrs. Clinton? Ha!
December 7th, 2007 at 5:09 pmJust host the websites in another country.
December 7th, 2007 at 5:23 pmThat’s the rub in the global Internet age, isn’t it?
You can pass all the laws you want, but enforcing them is a reall bummer.
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December 7th, 2007 at 6:29 pmSomeone must be looking for work
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications wants to regulate the entire internet. Good luck.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:45 pmAs John Gilmore (one of the co-founders of the EFF) once said, “The Internet interprets censorship as damages and routes around it.”
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:30 pm