Comments on: [Digg This] Israel To Restrict Internet Access to Adult Websites

By: 2jk.org:: Intellect or Insanity» Blog Archive » Internet Censorship In Israel:: Updates

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:06:09 +0000

[...] i previously noted, The Israeli Ultraorthodox Party Shas is making its steps towards passing an Internet Censorship [...]

By: 2jk.org:: Intellect or Insanity» Blog Archive » Narrowly Tailored Knives

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:50:49 +0000

[...] Violent Video Games, and not Pornography or Gambling, it has several implication on the suggested Israeli Internet Censorship Act (also called, for formality reasons: Filtering of Inappropriate Content to Minors Act). In Brief, [...]

By: Gilad

Gilad — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:48:08 +0000

Thanks for all the articles Yonatan. I’m doing my best to get this information out there.

I would be careful when saying things like:

“in a deliberate plan to block our freedom of Speech, Employment and Information… and that blocking websites under the “adult” category may lead to shutting down the internet in Israel.”

I think that’s taking it a bit too far. I think that when stating sentences such as that, which are to the other extreme, it is difficult to get a discussion going. But I support any action, and look forward to participating remotely in whichever way that I can.

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» אין טעם ללכת אם אתה חי בעיר| הבלוג של יהונתן קלינגר | — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:27:03 +0000

[...] בקשה אחת להיום, אנא עזרו לי להפיץ את הפוסט נגד חוק הצנזורה באנגלית בDigg. (…) [...]

By: Shay

Shay — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:50:47 +0000

When I first heard about it, I sent an e-mail to Ophir Pines, who is a signatory on the proposal, explaining to him in length why I think this is wrong.
He (or rather, his assistant) replied the following, in a letter sent by post to my address (lord knows why):

[...]
נושא הגבלת הגלישה באינטרנט הינו תחום רגיש ובעייתי. לדעתי, יש צורך בהגבלותמסוימות על אופן השימוש בכלי חשוב זה וזאת על מנת למזער נזקים כבדים העשויים להיגרם לאזרחים ובעיקר לקטינים כתוצאה מחשיפה לתכנים פוגעניים כאלה ואחרים. ברי לכל בר דעת שעל המדינה חלה חובה להסדיר את התחום הזה, אולם דרך הפעולה שתיבחר יכולה לכלול שימוש בכלים כאלה ואחרים. כמו-כן, חשוב להקפיד שהסדרת הנושא תעשה ברגישות תוך התחשבות בכל ערכי היסוד הרלוונטיים.
שלך בכבוד רב
ח”כ אופיר פינס-פז

Can’t say I found much encouragement in those words, though I think he did try and cheer me up.

I told him that taking care of children was the parents’ responsibility, not the state, and that at most, government should encourage ISPs to make aware for their home-customers of various netnanny solutions, which I believe they probably do anyway (I think at least one ISP has a “kosher” internet thing, where everything is uber-filtered).

Though I guess a cheaper parenting tool is to just turn off the computer.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:53:50 +0000

Ayelet,
Thanks.

By: Ayelet Noff

Ayelet Noff — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:42:03 +0000

Hi Jonathan:

As you saw, I posted on this story and also dugg this article.

Ayelet