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#1 Exate

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 05:03 AM

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The Net Authority is an organization dedicated to the removal of offensive material from the Internet. The online world is teeming with pornography, depravity, blasphemy, and all kinds of hate propaganda. It is our mission to define a set of guidelines to which all information posted on the Internet must adhere, and to hold responsible those who would knowingly break those guidelines.

It is extremely important that children are shielded from sites in violation of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy. The children of today determine the society of tomorrow, so the kinds of things that their growing, susceptible minds are exposed to are of the utmost importance. The Net Authority willingly works in conjunction with national and international enforcement agencies to put a stop to the dissemination of offensive materials on the Internet.

Our primary initiative towards that end is the maintenance of a continually growing database of Internet offenders—websites that knowingly violate the Internet Acceptable Use Policy. We freely provide access to this database for concerned parents, interested software developers, and law-abiding Internet citizens in general. We fully understand the scope of the Internet, and that it is unlikely for us to ever hold a majority of offending sites in our database—but it is our hope that by holding these sites up as an example, we can help deter other Internet users from following similar paths and thus reduce the accumulation of offensive material on the Internet in general.

The Net Authority is an organization consisting of individuals and community leaders from all over the civilized world. We are all constantly on the look-out for new offenders to add to our database—but we can't do it alone! You too can be a part of the Net Authority and help us eliminate offensive material from the Internet. By reading and understanding the Internet Acceptable Use Policy, and our guide on how to spot offending material, you can arm yourself with all you need to do God's work on the Internet. Every offending site that is added to our database by visitors just like yourself takes us one step closer to a cleaner, better Internet for our children.


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Mission Statement

To provide a set of guidelines to which all content posted on the Internet must adhere, and to hold responsible those individuals who would knowingly break those guidelines.
Initiatives

Members of the Net Authority take many initiatives, both as individuals and as an organization, to help remove offensive content from the Internet. Community leaders from all over the civilized world have worked together to develop the Internet Acceptable Use Policy—a set of common-sense rules that should be followed by anyone intending to publish information on the Internet.

Our flagship initiative is the maintenance and publishing of our Internet offenders database. We keep track of every website in violation of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy that we can find, and provide this information, free of charge, to anyone who desires it. We do our best to keep this information current and accurate, but can only do so with your help.

What Can You Do?

We have provided a guide to help you spot websites that are in violation of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy. Read it, understand it, and actively use it when going about your daily business on the Internet. If you spot a site in violation, use the form at the end of our guide to submit it to our database. With enough law-abiding Internet citizens such as yourself on our side, our database is ensured to remain up to date and accurate.

Your best weapon in the war against this enemy is information. By allowing yourself to be informed of where offensive material is on the Internet, you can take the first steps towards protecting our youth from it. If you are a parent, block these sites from your children using one of the many commercially available filtering programs. Demand that your schools and libraries monitor our database to keep their filtering software up to date.

Talk to your children—let them know that the Internet, while being an extremely important and useful tool in today's society, also contains many dark places that may lead their souls astray from the path of God. Do not be afraid to scare them! The Internet is a scary place! Help them read and understand the Internet Acceptable Use Policy and our guide on how to spot violations. If you do your job, soon even your children may become productive members of the Net Authority community.


Check this too.

And then check out their database. Wikipedia, AOL, FoxNews, Yahoo!, and even the Salvation Army... what the hell is this?! The Salvation Army has helped more people than any church of a religion ever will!

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What do I have to say?
Thou can sucketh my ****ing cock.

Who are these people to run around playing as almighty e-police that decide what material is posted on the internet?


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- Any material that would lead one astray from the righteous path of the one true God must not be permitted on the Internet.
- ...God's work on the Internet.
- ...lead their souls astray from the path of God.
- Any material that would lead one astray from the righteous path of the one true God must not be permitted on the Internet.

And what's all this bull**** about "God"? Everybody has their own religion, but please, keep it the hell away from everybody else.

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Thou shalt not post materials concerning bestiality, including interracial relationships.

No interracial relationships? If these people are Christian, then they would most likely believe of Adam and Eve, and how we all descend from them.

y do people luk different then!
It's called genetic drift, assholes.

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Anything that can evoke impure thoughts in the mind is pornographic? Oh my. We must destroy the bible then.
No hateful material? There goes 95% of religious content.
No blasphemous material? I'm not Christian; I'm not adhering to any laws that tell me I can't write or look at anything based on someone else's religion.
No material of offensive political nature? There goes the other 5% of religious content as well as 100% of any political debate.
No interracial relationships? Screw you. Love knows no true bounds. If I fall in love with someone of a different skin color as mine that doesn't mean that it's wrong. A big (^) to whoever wrote this crap.


Damn, man.
I really apologize to anybody who may be Christian and reading this -- as I don't target you, but this "Net Authority" is attempting to force their religion upon everybody else; they're committing the real crime.
I also apologize for my language. It's not often I cuss so much in my typing.


Anyways, I'd like to know everybody else's thoughts on this.

#2 Dr. Mutagen

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 05:21 AM

I wouldn't worry about these guys too much. Since they pretty much bash politics in general, I doubt they would get much support from lawmakers on either side of the political spectrum.

#3 CastChaos

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 05:27 AM

Gotta watch out. This seems like a nazi style dictatorical organisation. Just be sure that you don't support them. I think they are far not the worst dictatorical threat.

#4 Koopa

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 06:12 AM

I think they're taking it way too far - though I also think responding with swearwords like you did, while you have every reason to be annoyed, was unnecessary.

I agree to the extent that there is material that should be forbidden completely (i.e. incitement to terrorism, child pornography etc.) and that the state should be able to remove individuals who produce such materials from the internet along with their sites.

Saying "everythig that doesn't fit my particular beliefs is forbidden" is not the answer though. After reading through the so-called "authorities" statements, I totally reject their interpretation of "immoral".

As a Christian, what angers me most is that such a statement is actually turning people away from God by equating religion with religious extremism. If my first contact with "Christianity" has been such a place, I'd probably have become an atheist.

#5 Animus01

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 09:46 AM

Well, I sure hope no one in that Net Authority is getting paid by Hillary Clinton. There goes a nice chunk of internet there. And I do agree the Salvation Army has gone too far. Ok, I don't mind hearing that the porngraphic junk should be taken out with the rest of the trash. But I don't think "Christianizing" the Internet is a smart idea, especially since those who are enforcing it are just as human as we are. Besides, anyone who should be as dedicated a Christian as many pastors should know that Bible verse in the Gospel of Matthew:

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"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Matthew 7:3-5


And yes, I believe it should be in red, because I'm quoting from Jesus Christ, himself.

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As a Christian, what angers me most is that such a statement is actually turning people away from God by equating religion with religious extremism. If my first contact with "Christianity" has been such a place, I'd probably have become an atheist.


Quoted for truth.

One more thing: if you don't want your kids to see pornography on the internet, then don't let them on the internet until they're old enough to use the internet wisely!

You can change yourself to fit the world, but you can't change the world to fit you.


#6 Ben

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 10:06 AM

I find their "we own the Internet" mentality amusing. In addition, it's probably not a serious attempt at cleaning up the intarwebs. If it is, then they are just really, really stupid.

What this appears to be is just beurocrats who don't know anything about what they are doing trying to win votes or something. It's the whole political correctness thing again basically. It's a political vendetta. Remove everything that isn't PC from the Internet, though, and what do you have left? Basically just major businesses and online stores, with some very basic information sites (such as political candidate pages, or government-run pages.)

In addition they don't seem to realize that the Internet has content for people OTHER than in the USA, which is another reason I am guessing it's just a political scheme. Saying they have people "all over the world" doesn't mean anything. Americans are pretty much everywhere.

I dunno, maybe I'm wrong.

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#7 Mitchfork

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 10:43 AM

This sounds like another group of EXTREMELY radical creationists who are going to make everyone who's not a creationists hate us. Just because I do't approve of it doesn't mean that I have the right to remove it completely, no matter how much I think it sucks. After all, freedom of speech is what America was built on, right?

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 11:36 AM

This sounds like something that's not going to happen. Usually, when something similar like this is said, it never goes through. Although some crap needs to get off the internet, it's not going to happen anytime soon, so all people can do is ignore it, drop it, or send death threats.

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 11:43 AM

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drop it, or send death threats.

I'll stick with the latter. icon_wink.gif


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Posted 25 June 2007 - 12:45 PM

Just a small group of pompous <--(New favorite word) ass radical religious whack jobs who believe they can change the world. The iNterWebZ is a large place FULL to the brim with people who will defend it fiercely. So to the Net police I say, Godspeed, and may you fail Horribly!

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After all, freedom of speech is what America was built on, right?

I'm starting to think that Freedom of Speech ONLY referred to you being able to say what you want about the Gov't and not go to jail for it. Even THAT is being taken away. This country is going down the toilet, and FAST. icon_sweat.gif


#11 Old-Skool

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 12:56 PM

this reminds me of Jack Thompson... people laughing at him, poking fun at him... man, those were the days...

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 01:28 PM

I never ever swear on the internet but: HOLY ****!

I have no more to say (and the stars don't come from the wordblocker, I put them there myself)

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 01:51 PM

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God did not intend for different species or races to intermingle sexually. Any content that contradicts this natural law, directly or indirectly, is strictly forbidden.

Oh, and this really gets me. The Bible doesn't even mention race, so what hat did they pull this trick from? icon_unsettled.gif
Do they have forums? If they do I'll go there, quote this, and type the last paragraph of the new testament and see what kinda reaction I get.
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If you read the bible (you should, it's great!) you know that dinosaurs never actually existed, and that God put those fossils and bones there to test our faith in Him.

And I'd like to know where the **** it says this in the bible too?
I can't stand these people, they make other Christians look like dumbasses, so please, nobody group them with the rest of us.

Edited by Mr. Pimpy, 25 June 2007 - 01:56 PM.


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Posted 25 June 2007 - 01:56 PM

One acronym.

WTF?


Sounds like the government's grand scheme that will fail. icon_shrug.gif

#15 Mr. Pimpy

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Posted 25 June 2007 - 02:01 PM

I just submitted DS2 to thier list and checked every 'bad' box. I'm really hoping they put it up there. icon_naughty.gif

OMFG. Look what they added to their list: AUDIO BIBLE! icon_lol.gif
Seriously, wtf? icon_wink.gif
Shouldn't they be, like, praising it or something? I mean...concidering "who they are".

Edited by Mr. Pimpy, 25 June 2007 - 02:15 PM.



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