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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well Cyrus, some the tubes that make up the Internets just lead to empty holes, and yes, rain pr0n upon the innocent. Shows what you know.<br><br>-p-]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[p-diddy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 5:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[This post reminds me of the Penny Arcade podcast about a kid downloading porn on his PSP at school. The reactionary FOX report they referenced seemed to imply that the porn was being downloaded without invitation from the child, as though anyone connected to a wireless network would automatically download offensive material.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hunter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 5:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well after all it is free.  You get what you pay for.  It could be far worse, it could just be a single advertising portal with popups.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Savage]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 28th 2006 4:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Anyone see hear about the First Amendment? How about a dual layered (or "tubed", if you will) approach whereby the default wi-fi access is filtered, but with certification of being over 18 ("I agree/I was born in " blah blah blah) they get the unfiltered version?<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve R]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 8:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA["as though anyone connected to a wireless network would automatically download offensive material."<br><br>Yeah!  That's how it got there.  I'm serious.  I was reading the news and BAM! Porn was on my PC.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andir2.0]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[I hate to be the voice of reason, but free is free.  You get what you pay for people.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gavin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[my school blocks engadget :(]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mike p]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[thank god the government is deciding what is best for me again.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Roy McKEnzie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Culver City Is NOT a suburb!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[theinvisiblemooseman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[to Roy:<br><br>why wouldn't the government, the people who run law enforcement try to stop illegal activity on a service they provide for free?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ideophile]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 6:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey man, nice Lebowski reference in the opening sentence.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[The Dude]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 7:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[What does the first ammendment have to do with anything?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andars05]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 8:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[The First Amendment has everything to do with what's going on. Whenever the government limits speech or restricts access to information, the First Amendment is implicated.  <br><br>Similar issues are raised when libraries try to filter certain information in their Internet stations.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve R]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 9:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thats true, but I don't think its quite the same as if the government mandated privately owned ISPs to filter content.  I think its a fine line though.  I would have to say technically it is censorship.  I don't think pornography should be that readily available to children, but at the same time what will the government decide is "bad" and needs to filtered from the public next.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andars05]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 25th 2006 10:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[i think, offensive material, such as p0rn would be fine to block. however, i don't feel its in the interest of the government to stop material like BitTorrent. <br><br>Thats the MPAA's job and the RIAA's job.<br><br>As someone who is persuing a law degree, i would think that somewhere a fine line thats crossed is present as the government is filtering the users content in a much "China-government" type way. I don't feel that its the government to decide whats lude and vulgar, and what the people should and should not see. <br><br>thats what critics of China's Great-Firewall complain about, but yet, its just as if its beginning to happen here.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Zach Marshall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 26th 2006 1:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Culver City is just a neighborhood in Los Angeles, not a suburb. So when you send your hate mail, make sure you don't put "Culver City, CA" on the envelope.  :P]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 26th 2006 2:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder why?  Maybe because Sony has headquarters there???<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver_City,_California" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver_City,_California</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh K]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 26th 2006 6:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think that the Culver City City Council would disagree with you.<br><br><a href="http://www.culvercity.org/citygov/gov_council.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.culvercity.org/citygov/gov_council.html</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cyrus Farivar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 26th 2006 2:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[small town next to a big town, culver city's a suburb. it's also home to sony studios, i'm sure they somehow influenced that decision]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[stugots]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 27th 2006 1:26AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[>> this new filter will "help safeguard system users from being subject to illegal files" -- as if somehow all of these "illegal files" just come raining down out of the sky on innocent folks<br><br>These files don't just pop up -- they're being subjected onto us by file sharing child molesting terrorists, who will stop at nothing to strike in the middle of a good ol' wholesome American community.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Asher]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 26th 2006 6:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Culver City to install filters on its municipal WiFi network]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/25/culver-city-to-install-filters-on-its-municipal-wifi-network/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ha, lets put this whole Culver City thing to rest.  I live in Culver City, CA and it is very much its own city.  It has its own police, fire department, city council, city constitution.  It is a smaller city of about 40000 surrounded by Los Angeles.  So if you're going to write a letter to culver city, make sure you address it "culver city, CA".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[longbordr52]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 27th 2006 2:05AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
