Is there no regulation to the Internet? Can we not do anything to protect innocent browsers (as in users browsing)?
Mother Hippie recently managed to use an innocuous text string as a web address, and there encountered some CGI porn – can you imagine Lara Croft being... by the man from Street Fighter 2? That was it: a silly CGI gif (an optical moving picture, of about 3 frames in repeat) advert.
I suspect Mother Hippie is still trying to bleach her mind of the absolute filth she encountered!
Clearly there has to be better safeguards to the Internet.
A quick (unrestricted) search online finds a tool called Glubble (“making the internet kid friendly by child proofing the browser” – apparently via some sort of Firefox Add-On that makes the Internet safer – although with about 350 sites available, it sounds like a minimal Intranet, not the Internet!) for kids, but what about Mother Hippie? There is also Off-limits, which again works on approved sites, not filters. Still not an Internet browser, but some Intranet of kiddie sites.
So how do we protect the innocent minds of our silver surfers though? How can we ensure “REVOLTING”, “PORNOGRAPHIC” “vulgar picture - it's really a sick society we live in” images don’t upload to the screens of mature & still sensitive online users – Glubble (which I’m sure Mother Hippie could easily be convinced is a website with content of the nature above) allows access to such a few sites, and Off-Limits is the same – and again it could be suggested that “off-limits” is presenting something most wouldn’t normally browse for - that their descriptions as browsers seems wrong to Hippie.
The world wide web (a phrase fiercely defended as representing a different article from the Internet, but losing favour now – given the choice of www.....com (there was apparently once a group & site for this (www.yes-www.com), but no trace now) or no www (boring, but a site exists to campaign against using the www. prefix – Hippie approves)) and/or the Internet is a big place. Lots of good stuff on there too apparently – even beyond this blog! But all that revolting, pornographic, vulgar porn gets in the way!
Who is going to do something about that? Well, to start with, you can count on Hippie...
...to do sweet fuck all about it, and support no silly social network campaigns that try to rid the Internet of such filth.
It’s not the case that Hippieisms promote these things (no sponsored links to porn here), or that Hippie cares to visit these sites (Mrs Hippie is beautiful & sexy; Hippie is more than content), but some people do visit. Every website costs money to host; some sites we like, others we’d be happy to see taken down. But they all get visitors or money to keep them going, so someone among the community cares for them, and porn ads pay for them.
Before you got here you would have been warned that the site might contain content only suitable for adults. (Again, Hippie disagrees, but to avoid offence, I ensured the warning is there.) Nonetheless, adults might be offended by this content, and kids may love it. Ergo, why should they be deprived? Hippie expresses himself with a full vocabulary, and occasionally might make innuendoes, albeit little more than modern cartoons – or indeed old cartoons (has no-one ever thought “Yabaa-Dabba-Doo” as the sexy body of a partner is unwrapped from its clothing? Try speaking those words – does a lot to show appreciation).
Whether you want to view it or not, and whether you want to pay to view it or not (like software, paying seems odd to Hippie: there’s so much freeware available; the same goes for porn –YouPorn.com (this link is not sponsored or endorsed by Hippie – just here as an example) has got a clever policy of offering some free, with some pay-for, shows.
The only answer Hippie can conclude is a ghastly one to Hippie: the social networking sites. Not to run a campaign to remove porn (their ads pay for so much hosting, the Internet would shrink dramatically if they were removed), but to get people across the globe to network socially. And in person. In the flesh. Go get some good breakfast together! And to stop worrying about a few adverts that other users are interested in.
I’ve searched for Silver Surfer browsers, but only found the nemesis of Spiderman, or some other comic book hero – Hippie knows little of these things.
The fact is the Internet is here to stay. Porn was an early tenant, and has an established base. Porn is here to stay too. And with porn, we get an economy that supports so much more of the Internet. And Hippieisms is here to stay too!
Start your silver browser campaigns if you want, but Hippie will only consider social networking membership to campaign with the other side.
Porn: love it or loath it, it pays bills, hosts websites, can be ignored, and is only really there if you go looking for it.
Hippie
Postscript: why does a site like Glubble actually include images of children? In some circles, even this is Sacrasanct (Hippie had to search online for the correct spelling of this, but would a kiddie browser help me learn my spelling? I doubt it, but I have no intention of finding out!)! A kid’s browser shows them! Odd...(but then to Hippie so is a kid’s browser). We need a browser for easily-offended-surfers. Or maybe just to have grown up people behave grown up...
A further postscript: Hippie did have expectations of mentioning the nonsense with Pirates Bay in this post, but no room - Hippie will get back to you on that one...
One last postscript: if socities globally aren't careful, 1984 will soon be trying to tell us how much we can relax too. Hope they never get an online forum, sponsored by porn or otherwise. We'd all be on social-networking sites then!
