[Nottingham] Considering the last talk...

[Richard Hodgson]

Nobody is closing your access to the internet.

You are free to leave your access point open, just as you are free to leave
your car unlocked with the keys inside.

Just don't be surprised when the police investigate you as a potential
suspect when your car is spotted as a getaway vehicle in a robbery, taking
your car away in order to perform a full forensic analysis whilst they
attempt to find out the identities of the real criminals, and clear YOUR
name in the process.
On Apr 30, 2011 4:12 PM, "Sergiusz Pawlowicz" <sergiusz at pawlowicz.name>
wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 16:03, Paul Tew <binarybod at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 12:37 +0100, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:41, Paul Tew <binarybod at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> You just need to be aware that if someone uses your IP address to
download
>>> some unlawful material then the police would be reasonable in suspecting
>>> that you did it.
>>
>> "unlawful materials" - i have heard it many time during communism in
poland.
>>
>> I used the term 'unlawful material' in a deliberate attempt to avoid
using
>> terminology that is pretty distasteful to a great number of people (hence
>> the reason it is unlawful). I certainly don't use it as a euphemism for
>> anything the police or other instrument of officialdom might consider to
be
>> subversive (which is what I think you were inferring). If you want to
know
>> the kind of thing I mean, then the principle piece of legislation in
England
>> and Wales is Section 1 of The Protection of Children Act 1978
>> (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/37 ) although there are other
bits
>> of legislation in a similar vein.
>>
>> Usually when people see for the first time, the kind of thing I have to
look
>> at on a daily basis, it makes them feel sick.
>
> It is pathetic, when the government kills children every day in
> Afghanistan, for ten years right now, that the system is designed to
> protect children. And that few sick people are used to close the
> freedom to access the internet.
>
> S.
>
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