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Hi guys,
I'm doing a sponsored run from Coatbridge to Edinburgh Castle which is around 34 miles. It's in memory of a little boy called John Andrew Byrne who sadly died on the 8th of this month. I am raising money for the Scottish Cot Death Trust.
Having just became a new father myself, i can't even begin to imagine what people that lose a child go through, so i want to raise awareness and also help the memory of this little boy live on.
I know it's a hard time financially just now but any donation would be greatly appreciated, no matter how big or small.
http://www.justgiving.com/William-Williamson
Thanks guys,
William
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Web Censorship
10 May 2012 - 07:13 PM
I know what your probably thinking, "Oh god, not another one of these kind of threads!". To be perfectly honest with you, i thought the same but recently i have seen an increase in some not so nice things on the internet and thought i would share my thoughts. I'm mainly sharing my thoughts to convince myself i'm not crazy and there is actually people that think the same 
To start off, this all kicked off a while back with people trying to censor what we view on the internet, whether it's the government or our ISP's. At first, i was against it 100%, nobody should have the right to tell me what i can and cannot view on the internet, right?. Well i have taken a step back and had a look at the websites i go onto on a regular basis and had a think to myself. One of these sites is the popular social networking site, Facebook.
Now, where my point comes from. I have a very keen interest in crime, criminals, gangs, mafia's ect. I do a lot of reading up on these subjects and although i think crime is wrong 100%, the law is there to be followed, it still interest's me. In my time of looking at some cases, i have come across website's that offer videos. In these videos you can see people being killed, decapitated and to be perfectly honest it makes you feel physically sick. I block every single website i come across that's like that, mainly because i have a young sister and a son, if they had to come across a site like that it would scar them for life.
Facebook is a breeding ground for the kind of people that do the things in these videos, the people that video it and the people who create the websites that host them. In the past few months, i have come across a video of a person being stabbed, a dog being beaten to death and a child being beaten by his mother, when i say child i mean around 3-4 months old. What kind of website would you find such a thing? Facebook. The three videos were found on Facebook, via people's status updates saying how sick it was.
I'm not saying Facebook is responsible for this, it isn't on their website so they can't do anything about it, but someone is responsible. The chances are, if you had to try and find the people responsible for the websites, you would have no chance. They are probably using offshore hosting, fake names etc. and this is where someone has to step in. If you can't take down the website, make sure nobody can get to it.
This is a different part to internet censorship than has been in the news and online recently, the government's or ISP's should be going out of their way to block such websites. I accessed these sites very easily so anyone with a little internet savvy will be able to do the same. Being only 18 myself, i know how computer smart kids are these days and i have no doubt in my mind they would be able to access such sites. The way i think of it, if you want to watch videos of people being brutally murdered, tortured, poor defenseless kid's being beaten to within an inch of their life, defenseless animals being kicked and punched to death then there is something missing inside you. No normal person wants to witness anything like that and as far as i'm concerned, if you want to watch it, you're just as bad as the people doing it.
Obviously, there are thing's that shouldn't be censored but there are also things that should. Being a new dad myself, i would hate for my son to come across one of these websites and will be taking every step possible to make sure he can't come across them. We need to protect children who use the internet, yes there are people like myself who install filters and block inappropriate sites such as these ones, but there are also children with parent's who don't know about filters, don't know how to install them etc. so we need to protect those children. Some of the stuff on these websites could mess with a child's head quite easily and it took me a while to get over some of the stuff i seen, and i'm an adult.
Anyway, i'm going on a bit, what are your thoughts on this?
Cheers,
William
To start off, this all kicked off a while back with people trying to censor what we view on the internet, whether it's the government or our ISP's. At first, i was against it 100%, nobody should have the right to tell me what i can and cannot view on the internet, right?. Well i have taken a step back and had a look at the websites i go onto on a regular basis and had a think to myself. One of these sites is the popular social networking site, Facebook.
Now, where my point comes from. I have a very keen interest in crime, criminals, gangs, mafia's ect. I do a lot of reading up on these subjects and although i think crime is wrong 100%, the law is there to be followed, it still interest's me. In my time of looking at some cases, i have come across website's that offer videos. In these videos you can see people being killed, decapitated and to be perfectly honest it makes you feel physically sick. I block every single website i come across that's like that, mainly because i have a young sister and a son, if they had to come across a site like that it would scar them for life.
Facebook is a breeding ground for the kind of people that do the things in these videos, the people that video it and the people who create the websites that host them. In the past few months, i have come across a video of a person being stabbed, a dog being beaten to death and a child being beaten by his mother, when i say child i mean around 3-4 months old. What kind of website would you find such a thing? Facebook. The three videos were found on Facebook, via people's status updates saying how sick it was.
I'm not saying Facebook is responsible for this, it isn't on their website so they can't do anything about it, but someone is responsible. The chances are, if you had to try and find the people responsible for the websites, you would have no chance. They are probably using offshore hosting, fake names etc. and this is where someone has to step in. If you can't take down the website, make sure nobody can get to it.
This is a different part to internet censorship than has been in the news and online recently, the government's or ISP's should be going out of their way to block such websites. I accessed these sites very easily so anyone with a little internet savvy will be able to do the same. Being only 18 myself, i know how computer smart kids are these days and i have no doubt in my mind they would be able to access such sites. The way i think of it, if you want to watch videos of people being brutally murdered, tortured, poor defenseless kid's being beaten to within an inch of their life, defenseless animals being kicked and punched to death then there is something missing inside you. No normal person wants to witness anything like that and as far as i'm concerned, if you want to watch it, you're just as bad as the people doing it.
Obviously, there are thing's that shouldn't be censored but there are also things that should. Being a new dad myself, i would hate for my son to come across one of these websites and will be taking every step possible to make sure he can't come across them. We need to protect children who use the internet, yes there are people like myself who install filters and block inappropriate sites such as these ones, but there are also children with parent's who don't know about filters, don't know how to install them etc. so we need to protect those children. Some of the stuff on these websites could mess with a child's head quite easily and it took me a while to get over some of the stuff i seen, and i'm an adult.
Anyway, i'm going on a bit, what are your thoughts on this?
Cheers,
William
Did You Know Thread...
13 September 2011 - 10:05 PM
Post in here all your facts, useless or useful, it doesn't matter 
Did you know that the paper notes we use today as money, goes way back to the 1600's. First introduced in England by goldsmiths, who, at that time were "Banks". People would come into the goldsmiths, recieve a secure box to put all their gold in, and the goldsmith would keep it. He would then give you a reciept which said "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of....". People then started to swap these reciepts instead of money, and thus the bank note was born. Thats also why you get the "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of..." on all sterling notes
Did you know that the paper notes we use today as money, goes way back to the 1600's. First introduced in England by goldsmiths, who, at that time were "Banks". People would come into the goldsmiths, recieve a secure box to put all their gold in, and the goldsmith would keep it. He would then give you a reciept which said "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of....". People then started to swap these reciepts instead of money, and thus the bank note was born. Thats also why you get the "I promise to pay the bearer the sum of..." on all sterling notes
