Comments on: Sri Lanka Pornography Regulatory Commission? http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/ a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:46:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mister X http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-23879 Mister X Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:13:47 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-23879 I wouldn't say that this is a bad idea. But what the government should realize is that if they want to have a better future generation, then this is not where it should start. It should start with cutting down on usage of drugs in very popular local schools and added to that smoking and alcohol as well. How many night clubs are open in Srilanka ? And is there anyone to check who comes in and goes out? Isn't it obvious that these are the places that need to be shut down first or made inaccessible to youngsters. Pornography has very little effect compared to the life long lasting effects that drugs, smoking will have. When is the government going to ban this? With the son's of ministers involved in the trade the answer to that will be NEVER. If the president thinks that this (Blocking porn etc) is the best way to bring up a better future then Mr.President you have got it all wrong. The root cause of crimes are drugs, alcohol etc. The government should spend money on banning these and making effective ways of monitoring such activities and not try to polish up their names by wasting money on minor things that has absolutely a null effect on the younger generation COMPARED to the drug menace. My perspective of this is that all in all if Mr.Rajapaksha and his associates think that this would benefit the younger generation, then you are wasting money and our resources simply because there are more major and lethal threats aimed at the younger generation rather than exposure to porn. The government should spend money and resources on uprooting these root courses and not minor matters. I wouldn’t say that this is a bad idea. But what the government should realize is that if they want to have a better future generation, then this is not where it should start. It should start with cutting down on usage of drugs in very popular local schools and added to that smoking and alcohol as well. How many night clubs are open in Srilanka ? And is there anyone to check who comes in and goes out? Isn’t it obvious that these are the places that need to be shut down first or made inaccessible to youngsters. Pornography has very little effect compared to the life long lasting effects that drugs, smoking will have. When is the government going to ban this? With the son’s of ministers involved in the trade the answer to that will be NEVER. If the president thinks that this (Blocking porn etc) is the best way to bring up a better future then Mr.President you have got it all wrong. The root cause of crimes are drugs, alcohol etc. The government should spend money on banning these and making effective ways of monitoring such activities and not try to polish up their names by wasting money on minor things that has absolutely a null effect on the younger generation COMPARED to the drug menace. My perspective of this is that all in all if Mr.Rajapaksha and his associates think that this would benefit the younger generation, then you are wasting money and our resources simply because there are more major and lethal threats aimed at the younger generation rather than exposure to porn. The government should spend money and resources on uprooting these root courses and not minor matters.

]]> By: sarath http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-23291 sarath Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:18:39 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-23291 There is no cause for alarm.They will forget this very soon. May be there will be a case or two, if you are a porn watcher then you have to lie low for few weeks. As for child pornography the concerns are real even in western countries. so it is good to get hold of few guys who are doing it as a profession. The problem of "sexting" is real. Anyway no ban would last long. The country has other pressing problems. Apart from these militarization of lot of day to day task is a bit of a bother though ! There is no cause for alarm.They will forget this very soon. May be there will be a case or two, if you are a porn watcher then you have to lie low for few weeks.
As for child pornography the concerns are real even in western countries. so it is good to get hold of few guys who are doing it as a profession. The problem of “sexting” is real.

Anyway no ban would last long. The country has other pressing problems. Apart from these militarization of lot of day to day task is a bit of a bother though !

]]> By: Adam http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-14617 Adam Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:38:42 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-14617 this whole thing about porn filtration is not feasible. blocking is implemented in the following order - 1) by name (eg, sex, xxx), 2) by 'whole' website name. taking the first two examples, it can be implemented, but catch is, for instance say the word 'sex' is banned in a word match, if you get a email (yahoo,hotmail,gmail for instance) the page wont load or will with errors as it filters that word, suppose your married, your wife sends you a mail with the word 'sex' as in 'I want to buy that sexy dress', guess what, it gets blocked. 2nd option can also be implemented same way, but we all know these days there are numerous porn sites, its technically impossible to add all those links into a filter file and filter that as number of sites increase by each day. also, larger the filter file in the case of option 1 & 2, slower the web becomes as it has to filter every single word as it passes through the ISP to your pc. thus requiring more and more computing power to implement such a task and we are talking of a massive task here. those of you who do use unix can test it out on your own to come to your own conclusions. the net was designed for one purpose, to share information, it was never designed for tasks such as filtration, which undermines the whole idea of the internet. as far as Limewire, Torrents go, they operate on ports which you open up manually from home, and we have the option of changing those ports at will. if ISPs are to block those, they have to block all ports and leave open just port 80, which is www port. which they cant do as some software like skype automatically selects random ports on each use. if ports are to be blocked, then, software like yahoo,msn,irc too can go offline. but then again, if this stupid gov can implement such a absurd law, then port filtering too is not far too off in the coming future. to give you a idea of the massive scale filtration process for all ISPs in srilanka to do this, one would need one BIG supercomputer, or a few atleast for this to work. and we dont have those here. by getting people to pay for accessing porn is yes, a way the gov is making money off porn, think about it, sex sells in one form or other. but interesting requests lately arnt they. first, to carry a mobile phone certificate with you and present at all check points is a direct violation of your privacy, now comes this. not sure if this is the blog where someone mentioned 'do ISPs read your emails as well', hell yeah. but not in person but every data packet goes through their backbone so all u need is someone adapt at reading it and these days u get software for that - Cain & Able, freely downloadable one, can filter anything, or the older but crude is Ethereal, ofcourse Network Admins, dont need any of this, they can read it as it goes through the LAN if you know your TCP/IP inside out. this is why unix is so popular, hard to learn but very very good at decoding anything.your unreadable/unformatable pendrives can be fixed with 3 commands in unix. unix is all about log files, even emails are stored in files, even after you download it to your pc, the transfer is recorded somewhere in the ISP.basic idea is, to every problem there are more than two solutions, and who create problems, we do - humans, and we make mistakes, that is why problems have more than 2 solutions. this whole thing about porn filtration is not feasible. blocking is implemented in the following order – 1) by name (eg, sex, xxx), 2) by ‘whole’ website name. taking the first two examples, it can be implemented, but catch is, for instance say the word ‘sex’ is banned in a word match, if you get a email (yahoo,hotmail,gmail for instance) the page wont load or will with errors as it filters that word, suppose your married, your wife sends you a mail with the word ‘sex’ as in ‘I want to buy that sexy dress’, guess what, it gets blocked. 2nd option can also be implemented same way, but we all know these days there are numerous porn sites, its technically impossible to add all those links into a filter file and filter that as number of sites increase by each day. also, larger the filter file in the case of option 1 & 2, slower the web becomes as it has to filter every single word as it passes through the ISP to your pc. thus requiring more and more computing power to implement such a task and we are talking of a massive task here. those of you who do use unix can test it out on your own to come to your own conclusions. the net was designed for one purpose, to share information, it was never designed for tasks such as filtration, which undermines the whole idea of the internet. as far as Limewire, Torrents go, they operate on ports which you open up manually from home, and we have the option of changing those ports at will. if ISPs are to block those, they have to block all ports and leave open just port 80, which is www port. which they cant do as some software like skype automatically selects random ports on each use. if ports are to be blocked, then, software like yahoo,msn,irc too can go offline. but then again, if this stupid gov can implement such a absurd law, then port filtering too is not far too off in the coming future. to give you a idea of the massive scale filtration process for all ISPs in srilanka to do this, one would need one BIG supercomputer, or a few atleast for this to work. and we dont have those here. by getting people to pay for accessing porn is yes, a way the gov is making money off porn, think about it, sex sells in one form or other. but interesting requests lately arnt they. first, to carry a mobile phone certificate with you and present at all check points is a direct violation of your privacy, now comes this. not sure if this is the blog where someone mentioned ‘do ISPs read your emails as well’, hell yeah. but not in person but every data packet goes through their backbone so all u need is someone adapt at reading it and these days u get software for that – Cain & Able, freely downloadable one, can filter anything, or the older but crude is Ethereal, ofcourse Network Admins, dont need any of this, they can read it as it goes through the LAN if you know your TCP/IP inside out. this is why unix is so popular, hard to learn but very very good at decoding anything.your unreadable/unformatable pendrives can be fixed with 3 commands in unix. unix is all about log files, even emails are stored in files, even after you download it to your pc, the transfer is recorded somewhere in the ISP.basic idea is, to every problem there are more than two solutions, and who create problems, we do – humans, and we make mistakes, that is why problems have more than 2 solutions.

]]> By: mack http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13909 mack Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:37:09 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13909 sanath just because u are awosy prick who cant get it up its not eney bodies problem,,,,porn shouldent be band its natural to people to watch these things u diprived mofo sanath just because u are awosy prick who cant get it up its not eney bodies problem,,,,porn shouldent be band its natural to people to watch these things u diprived mofo

]]> By: Porn Q http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13773 Porn Q Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:11:28 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13773 Can someone explain whether a site like http://www.nudismprovider.com/pageant-videos.dhtml is not counted as child porn and why isn't that blocked? Can someone explain whether a site like http://www.nudismprovider.com/pageant-videos.dhtml is not counted as child porn and why isn’t that blocked?

]]> By: johann http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13441 johann Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:52:22 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13441 this is a worthless effort, because nowadays with the wide use of file sharing services,you can easily upload any kind of porn videos onto their servers,and anyone could download it from anywhere in the world.and add to that, online porn dvd sales have gone way down..people no longer visit porn web sites,so this would look to many as one of many lame laws & regulations this govenment has imposed.this is just one of those tricks the president is trying to build up his image. this is a worthless effort, because nowadays with the wide use of file sharing services,you can easily upload any kind of porn videos onto their servers,and anyone could download it from anywhere in the world.and add to that, online porn dvd sales have gone way down..people no longer visit porn web sites,so this would look to many as one of many lame laws & regulations this govenment has imposed.this is just one of those tricks the president is trying to build up his image.

]]> By: Chanuka Wattegama http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13422 Chanuka Wattegama Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:18:49 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13422 Shehal, We do not remove comments. (with the obvious exceptions of filth and spam - that too largely filtered by software, not us) I think the reason for the deletion of your comment was a glitch in our system which has been rectified now. (Many others faced the same problem) Shehal,

We do not remove comments. (with the obvious exceptions of filth and spam – that too largely filtered by software, not us)

I think the reason for the deletion of your comment was a glitch in our system which has been rectified now. (Many others faced the same problem)

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: No Pornography http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13417 Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: No Pornography Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:57 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13417 [...] in Sri Lanka and LirneAsia discuss the censoring of pornographic material. Posted by Neha Viswanathan  Print Version [...] [...] in Sri Lanka and LirneAsia discuss the censoring of pornographic material. Posted by Neha Viswanathan  Print Version [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: No Pornography http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13418 Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: No Pornography Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:57 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13418 [...] in Sri Lanka and LirneAsia discuss the censoring of pornographic material. Posted by Neha Viswanathan  Print Version [...] [...] in Sri Lanka and LirneAsia discuss the censoring of pornographic material. Posted by Neha Viswanathan  Print Version [...]

]]> By: shehal http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13399 shehal Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:47:26 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13399 are you filtering my comments? are you filtering my comments?

]]> By: Sudhraka Jayathissa http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13366 Sudhraka Jayathissa Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:41:07 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13366 Check this article, http://amumiris.org/?p=52 Check this article, http://amumiris.org/?p=52

]]> By: WHY THEY BANNED SEX WEBSITES « Blog Archive « Made in Sri Lanka http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13350 WHY THEY BANNED SEX WEBSITES « Blog Archive « Made in Sri Lanka Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:21 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13350 [...] charts, etc. of the report here because it could be complex for the general public to understand. Though those guys in LIRNEasia who are talking against the porn ban could understand such detailed reports, the general public who reads blogs like Amumiris.org that [...] [...] charts, etc. of the report here because it could be complex for the general public to understand. Though those guys in LIRNEasia who are talking against the porn ban could understand such detailed reports, the general public who reads blogs like Amumiris.org that [...]

]]> By: So apparently the next big thing is bann … « adamantine http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13346 So apparently the next big thing is bann … « adamantine Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:03:30 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13346 [...] am on August 4, 2008 | # | Tags: Mahinda Rajapakse Is An Asshole So apparently the next big thing is banning porn. Well, not “banning”: we have to go pay (more) money to get a [...] [...] am on August 4, 2008 | # | Tags: Mahinda Rajapakse Is An Asshole So apparently the next big thing is banning porn. Well, not “banning”: we have to go pay (more) money to get a [...]

]]> By: TheWhackster http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13343 TheWhackster Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:51:26 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13343 this could get dangerous this could get dangerous

]]> By: sam http://lirneasia.net/2008/08/sri-lanka-pornography-regulatory-commission/comment-page-1/#comment-13323 sam Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:14:21 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=1822#comment-13323 This is the beginning of the end. This is the beginning of the end.

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