Japan proposes 'Net censorship, watermarking

[Ferre]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ermarking.html

Glad I'm not living in Japan.

The changes, meticulously described in English by Japanese nonprofit gyaku.jp, would bring all forms of web content (including blogs, personal web sites, and even the online variants of traditional media), mobile content, and file sharing under the microscope. First up is web content. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (Somusho) plans to submit a bill that would modify the existing Broadcast Law to include "open communication" of the Internet, "such as homepages and so on." With this extremely broad definition of open communication, the Japanese government would then be able to examine anything on the web that isn't private (such as e-mail) to ensure that it isn't "harmful." If something is found (by an unspecified, independent body) to be harmful, it could be removed and the person posting it could be censured.

[exam]

Sounds like they don't understand the internet very well.

[Luckyman]

That is not definitely in the interest of the net community. Hope some one in that country will decipher some alternative method to get out of the control

[Atom]

[Ferre]

Atom, images like that make people want to have some censorship.

[Atom]

Aren't the shirt and pants censorship enough?