Guardians of linguistic purity have long warned against the pernicious impact that text messaging may have on the young, but Pakistan officials have taken such concerns to a new extreme by demanding that mobile phone operators block all text messages using offensive words.

With a creativity and dedication to the task unusual for local officialdom, the country’s telecoms regulator has issued a list of more than 1000 words and phrases which will be banned.

After serious deliberation and consultation, officials from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have come up with more than 50 phrases using the word “fuck” and 17 involving “butt”.

The list includes several apparently innocuous words and phrases, including “flatulence”, “deposit” and “fondle”. Others would likely only make sense to frustrated teenagers.

Among the more printable terms are “strap-on”, “beat your meat”, “crotch rot”, “love pistol”, “pocket pool” and “quickie”.

The officials’ flair for the task was apparent, with prohibition embracing more figurative language, such as “flogging the dolphin”, and 51 terms with the suffix “ass” – although only one variation of the word ‘arse’. There were 17 variants on “tit” and 33 on “cock”, with officials managing to produce eight obscenities involving the word “foot”.

I’ve managed to get hold of a full list of the 1,109 words or phrases banned in Pakistan. They are included over the break.

Would be fun having a job where you have to know all the dirty words so you can ban them.

There should be a competition for who can write the best short-story that involves all 1,109 words!

1. A.S.S.

2. ANAL

3. ANAL ANNIE

4. ANAL SEX

5. ANALANNIE

6. ANALSEX

7. ANUS

8. ARSE

9. ASS

10. ASS BAGGER

11. ASS BLASTER

12. ASS CLOWN

13. ASS COWBOY

14. ASS FUCK

15. ASS FUCKER

16. ASS HOLE

17. ASS HOLES

18. ASS HORE

19. ASS JOCKEY

20. ASS KISS

21. ASS KISSER

22. ASS KLOWN

23. ASS LICK

24. ASS LICKER

25. ASS LOVER

26. ASS MAN

27. ASS MONKEY

28. ASS MUNCH

29. ASS MUNCHER

30. ASS PACKER

31. ASS PIRATE

32. ASS PUPPIES

33. ASS RANGER

34. ASS WHORE

35. ASS WIPE

36. ASSBAGGER

37. ASSBLASTER

38. ASSCLOWN

39. ASSCOWBOY

40. ASSFUCK

41. ASSFUCKER

42. ASSHOLE

43. ASSHOLES

44. ASSHORE

45. ASSJOCKEY

46. ASSKISS

47. ASSKISSER

48. ASSKLOWN

49. ASSLICK

50. ASSLICKER

51. ASSLOVER

52. ASSMAN

53. ASSMONKEY

54. ASSMUNCH

55. ASSMUNCHER

56. ASSPACKER

57. ASSPIRATE

58. ASSPUPPIES

59. ASSRANGER

60. ASSWHORE

61. ASSWIPE

62. ATHLETES FOOT

63. ATHLETESFOOT

64. AXING THE WEASEL

65. B HARD

66. BACK DOOR

67. BACK DOOR MAN

68. BACKDOOR

69. BACKDOORMAN

70. BACKSEAT

71. BAD ASS

72. BAD FUCK

73. BADFUCK

74. BALL LICKER

75. BALL SACK

76. BALLLICKER

77. BALLSACK

78. BANGING

79. BARELY LEGAL

80. BARELYLEGAL

81. BARF

82. BARF FACE

83. BARFACE

84. BARFFACE

85. BASTARD

86. BAZONGAS

87. BAZOOMS

88. BEASTALITY

89. BEASTIALITY

90. BEAT OFF

91. BEAT YOUR MEAT

92. BEATOFF

93. BEAT-OFF

94. BEATYOURMEAT

95. BI SEXUAL

96. BIATCH

97. BIG ASS

98. BIG BITCH

99. BIG BITCH

100. BIG BUTT

101. BIGASS

102. BIGBASTARD

103. BIGBUTT

104. BISEXUAL

105. BI-SEXUAL

106. BITCH

107. BITCHES

108. BITCHIN

109. BITCHY

110. BITE ME

111. BITEME

112. BLACK OUT

113. BLACKOUT

114. BLOW JOB

115. BLOWJOB

116. BONER

117. BOOBIES

118. BOOBS

119. BOODY

120. BREAST

121. BREAST JOB

122. BREAST LOVER

123. BREAST MAN

124. BREASTJOB

125. BREASTLOVER

126. BREASTMAN

127. BUDWEISER

128. BULL CRAP

129. BULL DIKE

130. BULL DYKE

131. BULL SHIT

132. BULLCRAP

133. BULLDIKE

134. BULLDYKE

135. BULLSHIT

136. BUMBLE FUCK

137. BUMBLEFUCK

138. BUMFUCK

139. BUNGHOLE

140. BUTCH BABES

141. BUTCH DIKE

142. BUTCH DYKE

143. BUTCHBABES

144. BUTCHDIKE

145. BUTCHDYKE

146. BUTT BANG

147. BUTT FUCK

148. BUTT FUCKER

149. BUTT FUCKERS

150. BUTT HEAD

151. BUTT MAN

152. BUTT PLUG

153. BUTT STAIN

154. BUTTBANG

155. BUTT-BANG

156. BUTTFACE

157. BUTTFUCK

158. BUTT-FUCK

159. BUTTFUCKER

160. BUTT-FUCKER

161. BUTTFUCKERS

162. BUTT-FUCKERS

163. BUTTHEAD

164. BUTTMAN

165. BUTTPIRATE

166. BUTTPLUG

167. BUTTSTAIN

168. CAMEL TOE

169. CAMELTOE

170. CARPET MUNCHER

171. CARPETMUNCHER

172. CARRUTH

173. CHERRY POPPER

174. CHERRYPOPPER

175. CHICK SLICK

176. CHICKSLICK

177. CLAM DIGGER

178. CLAM DIVER

179. CLAMDIGGER

180. CLAMDIVER

181. CLIT

182. CLITORIS

183. COCK

184. COCK BLOCK

185. COCK BLOCKER

186. COCK COWBOY

187. COCK FIGHT

188. COCK KNOB

189. COCK LICKER

190. COCK LOVER

191. COCK NOB

192. COCK QUEEN

193. COCK RIDER

194. COCK SMITH

195. COCK SUCKER

196. COCK TAIL

197. COCK TEASE

198. COCKBLOCK

199. COCKBLOCKER

200. COCKCOWBOY

201. COCKFIGHT

202. COCKHEAD

203. COCKKNOB

204. COCKLICKER

205. COCKLOVER

206. COCKNOB

207. COCKQUEEN

208. COCKRIDER

209. COCKS MAN

210. COCKSMAN

211. COCKSMITH

212. COCKSUCER

213. COCKSUCKER

214. COCKTAIL

215. COCKTEASE

216. COCKY

217. CONDOM

218. COPULATE

219. CORN HOLE

220. CORNHOLE

221. CRACK PIPE

222. CRACK WHORE

223. CRACKPIPE

224. CRACKWHORE

225. CRACK-WHORE

226. CRAP

227. CRAPPY

228. CREAMY

229. CROTCH

230. CROTCH JOCKEY

231. CROTCH MONKEY

232. CROTCH ROT

233. CROTCHJOCKEY

234. CROTCHMONKEY

235. CROTCHROT

236. CUM

237. CUM BUBBLE

238. CUM FEST

239. CUM JOCKEY

240. CUM QUAT

241. CUM QUEEN

242. CUM SHOT

243. CUMBUBBLE

244. CUMFEST

245. CUMJOCKEY

246. CUMM

247. CUMMING

248. CUMQUAT

249. CUMQUEEN

250. CUMSHOT

251. CUNNILINGUS

252. CUNT

253. CUNT FUCK

254. CUNT FUCKER

255. CUNT LICKER

256. CUNTFUCK

257. CUNTFUCKER

258. CUNTLICKER

259. CYBER SEX

260. CYBER SLIMER

261. CYBERSEX

262. CYBERSLIMER

263. DAHMER

264. DAMN

265. DAMN IT

266. DAMNIT

267. DATNIGGA

268. DEAP THROAT

269. DEAPER

270. DEAPTHROAT

271. DEEP THROAT

272. DEEPER

273. DEEPTHROAT

274. DEFECATE

275. DEPOSIT

276. DEVIL

277. DICK BRAIN

278. DICK FART

279. DICK FOR BRAINS

280. DICK HEAD

281. DICK LICK

282. DICK LICKER

283. DICK LIKCER

284. DICK WAD

285. DICK WEED

286. DICKBRAIN

287. DICKFORBRAINS

288. DICKHEAD

289. DICKLESS

290. DICKLICK

291. DICKLICKER

292. DICKMAN

293. DICKWAD

294. DICKWEED

295. DIKE

296. DILDO

297. DIP STICK

298. DIPSTICK

299. DIRTY HO

300. DIXIE DIKE

301. DIXIE DYKE

302. DIXIEDIKE

303. DIXIEDYKE

304. DO ME

305. DOGGIE STYLE

306. DOGGIESTYLE

307. DOGGY STLYE

308. DOGGYSTYLE

309. DOME

310. DONG

311. DOPE

312. DRAG QUEEN

313. DRAGQUEEN

314. DRAGQWEEN

315. DRIP DICK

316. DRIPDICK

317. DRUNK

318. DRUNKEN

319. DUMB ASS

320. DUMB BITCH

321. DUMB FUCK

322. DUMBASS

323. DUMBBITCH

324. DUMBFUCK

325. EASY SLUT

326. EASYSLUT

327. EAT ME

328. EAT PUSSY

329. EATBALLS

330. EATME

331. EATPUSSY

332. EJACULATE

333. ERECTION

334. EVL

335. EXCREMENT

336. F.U.C.K.

337. FACE FUCKER

338. FACEFUCKER

339. FAGGOT

340. FAGOT

341. FAIRY

342. FANNY FUCKER

343. FANNYFUCKER

344. FART

345. FAST FUCK

346. FASTFUCK

347. FAT ASS

348. FAT FUCK

349. FAT FUCKER

350. FATASS

351. FATFUCK

352. FATFUCKER

353. FATSO

354. FELLATIO

355. FEMME

356. FINGER FOOD

357. FINGER FUCK

358. FINGER FUCKER

359. FINGERFOOD

360. FINGERFUCK

361. FINGERFUCKER

362. FIST FUCK

363. FIST FUCKER

364. FISTFUCK

365. FISTFUCKER

366. FISTING

367. FLASHER

368. FLATULENCE

369. FLOGGIN THE DOLPHIN

370. FONDLE

371. FOOT FUCK

372. FOOT FUCKER

373. FOOT LICKER

374. FOOTACTION

375. FOOTFUCK

376. FOOTFUCKER

377. FOOTLICKER

378. FOOTSTAR

379. FORE SKIN

380. FORESKIN

381. FORNICATE

382. FOUR 20

383. FOUR TWENTY

384. FOUR20

385. FOURTWENTY

386. FREAK FUCK

387. FREAKFUCK

388. FREAKY FUCKER

389. FREAKYFUCKER

390. FREE FUCK

391. FREEFUCK

392. FUCK

393. FUCK BAG

394. FUCK BUDDY

395. FUCK FACE

396. FUCK FEST

397. FUCK FREAK

398. FUCK FRIEND

399. FUCK HEAD

400. FUCK HER

401. FUCK IT

402. FUCK KNOB

403. FUCK ME

404. FUCK ME HARD

405. FUCK MONKEY

406. FUCK OFF

407. FUCK PIG

408. FUCK THEM

409. FUCK WHORE

410. FUCK YOU

411. FUCKA

412. FUCKABLE

413. FUCKBAG

414. FUCKBUDDY

415. FUCKED

416. FUCKED UP

417. FUCKEDUP

418. FUCKER

419. FUCKERS

420. FUCKFACE

421. FUCKFEST

422. FUCKFREAK

423. FUCKFRIEND

424. FUCKHEAD

425. FUCKHER

426. FUCKIN

427. FUCKIN A

428. FUCKIN NUTS

429. FUCKIN RIGHT

430. FUCKINA

431. FUCKING

432. FUCKING A

433. FUCKING BITCH

434. FUCKING NUTS

435. FUCKINGBITCH

436. FUCKINNUTS

437. FUCKINRIGHT

438. FUCKIT

439. FUCKKNOB

440. FUCKME

441. FUCKMEHARD

442. FUCKMONKEY

443. FUCKOFF

444. FUCKPIG

445. FUCKWHORE

446. FUCKYOU

447. FUDGE PAKCERS

448. FUN FUCK

449. FUNFUCK

450. FUUCK

451. G UNIT

452. GANG BANG

453. GANG BANGER

454. GANGBANG

455. GANGBANGER

456. GAY

457. GAY ASS

458. GAY MUTHA FUCKIN QUEER

459. GAY PRIDE

460. GAYMUTHAFUCKINWHORE

461. GENITAL

462. GET IT ON

463. GETITON

464. GIEHN

465. GIVE HEAD

466. GIVEHEAD

467. GLAZED DONUT

468. GLAZEDDONUT

469. GO TO HELL

470. GOD DAMED MUTHA FUCKA

471. GOD DAMIT

472. GOD DAMN

473. GOD DAMNED

474. GOD MANIT

475. GODDAMIT

476. GODDAMN

477. GODDAMNED

478. GODDAMNES

479. GODDAMNIT

480. GODDAMNMUTHAFUCKER

481. GONORREHEA

482. GONZAGAS

483. GOOK

484. GOT JESUS

485. GOT2HAVEIT

486. GOTOHELL

487. G-UNIT

488. HAND JOB

489. HANDJOB

490. HARD ON

491. HARDER

492. HARDON

493. HAREM

494. HE HATE ME

495. HEAD FUCK

496. HEAD LIGHTS

497. HEADFUCK

498. HEADLIGHTS

499. HEHATEME

500. HELL NO

501. HELL YES

502. HELLNO

503. HELLYES

504. HEN HOUSE

505. HENHOUSE

506. HERPES

507. HERSHEY HI WAY

508. HERSHEYHIGHWAY

509. HERSHEYHIWAY

510. HERSHY HIGH WAY

511. HO MO

512. HOBO

513. HOLE

514. HOLE STUFFER

515. HOLESTUFFER

516. HOMO

517. HOMO BANGERS

518. HOMO SEXUAL

519. HOMOBANGERS

520. HOMOSEXUAL

521. HONKERS

522. HONKEY

523. HOOKER

524. HOOKERS

525. HOOTERS

526. HORE

527. HORNEY

528. HORNY

529. HORSESHIT

530. HOSE JOB

531. HOSEJOB

532. HOSER

533. HOSTAGE

534. HOT DAMN

535. HOT PUSSY

536. HOT TO TROT

537. HOT2TROT

538. HOTDAMN

539. HOTPUSSY

540. HOTTOTROT

541. HUSSY

542. HUSTLER

543. ID10T

544. IDIOT

545. IDOIT

546. IN THE ASS

547. IN THE BUFF

548. INGIN

549. INSEST

550. INTER COURSE

551. INTER RACIAL

552. INTERCOURSE

553. INTERRACIAL

554. INTHEASS

555. INTHEBUFF

556. JACK THE RIPPER

557. JACKASS

558. JACKOFF

559. JACKTHERIPPER

560. JAP

561. JAP CRAP

562. JAPCRAP

563. JERK OFF

564. JERKOFF

565. JESUS CHIRST

566. JESUSCHRIST

567. JISM

568. JIZ

569. JIZ JUICE

570. JIZIM

571. JIZJUICE

572. JIZZ

573. JIZZIM

574. JOINT

575. JUGGALO

576. JUGS

577. K MART

578. KILL

579. KILLER

580. KILLING

581. KISS ASS

582. KISSASS

583. KKK

584. KMART

585. KNOCKERS

586. KOON

587. KOTEX

588. KRAP

589. KRAPPY

590. KUM

591. KUM BUBBLE

592. KUM QUAT

593. KUMBUBBLE

594. KUMBULLBE

595. KUMQUAT

596. KUNT

597. KY

598. KY JELLY

599. LACTATE

600. LADY BOOG

601. LAID

602. LAP DANCE

603. LAPDANCE

604. LESBAIN

605. LESBAYN

606. LESBIAN

607. LESBIN

608. LESBO

609. LEZ

610. LEZ BE

611. LEZ BE FRIENDS

612. LEZBE

613. LEZBEFRIENDS

614. LEZBO

615. LEZZ

616. LEZZO

617. LICK ME

618. LICKER

619. LICKME

620. LIMP DICK

621. LIMPDICK

622. LIMY

623. LIVE SEX

624. LIVESEX

625. LOLITA

626. LOOSER

627. LOTION

628. LOVE BONE

629. LOVE GOO

630. LOVE GUN

631. LOVE JUICE

632. LOVE MUSCLE

633. LOVE PISTOL

634. LOVE ROCKET

635. LOVEBONE

636. LOVEGOO

637. LOVEGUN

638. LOVEJUICE

639. LOVEMUSCLE

640. LOVEPISTOL

641. LOVEROCKET

642. LOW LIFE

643. LOWLIFE

644. LUBE JOB

645. LUBEJOB

646. LUCKY CAMEL TOE

647. LUCKYCAMMELTOE

648. MAMS

649. MAN HATER

650. MAN PASTE

651. MANHATER

652. MANPASTE

653. MARY JANE

654. MARYJANE

655. MASTABATE

656. MASTABATER

657. MASTER BLASTER

658. MASTERBATE

659. MASTERBLASTER

660. MASTRABATOR

661. MATTRESS PRINCESS

662. MATTRESSPRINCESS

663. MEAT BEATTER

664. MEATBEATTER

665. MOLEST

666. MOLESTER

667. MOLESTOR

668. MONEY SHOT

669. MONEYSHOT

670. MOTHER FUCKER

671. MOTHER LOVE BONE

672. MOTHERFUCK

673. MOTHERFUCKER

674. MOTHERLOVEBONE

675. MUFF

676. MUFF DIVE

677. MUFF DIVER

678. MUFF LICKER

679. MUFFDIVE

680. MUFFDIVER

681. MUFFIN DIVER

682. MUFFINDIVER

683. MUFFLIKCER

684. MURDER

685. MUTHA FUCKER

686. NAKED

687. NASTY BITCH

688. NASTY HO

689. NASTY SLUT

690. NASTY WHORE

691. NASTYBITCH

692. NASTYHO

693. NASTYSLUT

694. NASTYWHORE

695. NEON DEON

696. NIG

697. NIGER

698. NIGGA

699. NIGGER

700. NIPPLE

701. NIPPLE RING

702. NIPPLERING

703. NIT TIT

704. NITTIT

705. NO FUCKING WAY

706. NO SEX

707. NOFUCKINGWAY

708. NOOKIE

709. NOONER

710. NUDE

711. NUT FUCKER

712. NUTFUCKER

713. OICU812

714. ON THE RAG

715. ONTHERAG

716. ORGASM

717. ORGY

718. OU812

719. OUI

720. P I M P

721. PEARL NECKLACE

722. PEARLNECKLACE

723. PECKER

724. PEE

725. PEEP SHOW

726. PEEPSHOW

727. PEEPSHPW

728. PENETRATION

729. PENIS

730. PENTHOUSE

731. PERIOD

732. PHQUE

733. PIMP

734. PIMP SIMP

735. PIMPED

736. PIMPER

737. PIMPJUIC

738. PIMPJUICE

739. PIMPSIMP

740. PISS

741. PISS HEAD

742. PISSED

743. PISSER

744. PISSHEAD

745. PLAY BOY

746. PLAY GIRL

747. PLAYBOY

748. PLAYGIRL

749. POCKET POOL

750. POCKETPOOL

751. POLACK

752. POON TANG

753. POONTANG

754. POOP

755. POOPER

756. POOR WHITE TRASH

757. POORWHITETRASH

758. POPIMP

759. PORCH MONKEY

760. PORCHMONKEY

761. PORN

762. PORN FLICK

763. PORN KING

764. PORN PRINCESS

765. PORNFLICK

766. PORNKING

767. PORNO

768. PORNPRINCESS

769. PREMATURE

770. PRICK

771. PRICK HEAD

772. PRICKHEAD

773. PRIMETIME

774. PROSTITUTE

775. PUBIC

776. PUBIC LICE

777. PUBICLICE

778. PUD

779. PUD BOY

780. PUDBOY

781. PUDD

782. PUDD BOY

783. PUDDBOY

784. PUN TANG

785. PUNTANG

786. PURINA PRINCESS

787. PURINAPRICNESS

788. PUSSY

789. PUSSY CAT

790. PUSSY EATER

791. PUSSY FUCKER

792. PUSSY LICKER

793. PUSSY LIPS

794. PUSSY LOVER

795. PUSSY POUNDER

796. PUSSYCAT

797. PUSSYEATER

798. PUSSYFUCKER

799. PUSSYLICKER

800. PUSSYLIPS

801. PUSSYLOVER

802. PUSSYPOUNDER

803. PUTT PIRATE

804. PWT

805. QUEEF

806. QUEER

807. QUICKIE

808. RAE CARRUTH

809. RAPE

810. RAPIST

811. REAR END

812. REAR ENTRY

813. REAREND

814. REARENTRY

815. RECTUM

816. RED LIGHT

817. REDLIGHT

818. REEFER

819. RENT A FUCK

820. RENTAFUCK

821. RETARD

822. RETARDED

823. RIBBED

824. RIM JOB

825. RIMJOB

826. ROACH

827. ROBBER

828. S AND M

829. S&M

830. SAMCKDADDY

831. SANDM

832. SATAN

833. SCHLONG

834. SCREW

835. SCREW YOU

836. SCREWYOU

837. SCROTUM

838. SEMEN

839. SEX

840. SEX FARM

841. SEX HOUND

842. SEX HOUSE

843. SEX KITTEN

844. SEX POT

845. SEX SLAVE

846. SEX TO GO

847. SEX TOY

848. SEX TOYS

849. SEX WHORE

850. SEXFARM

851. SEXHOUND

852. SEXHOUSE

853. SEXKITTEN

854. SEXPOT

855. SEXSLAVE

856. SEXTOGO

857. SEXTOY

858. SEXTOYS

859. SEXUAL

860. SEXWHORE

861. SEXY

862. SEXY BIATCH

863. SEXY BITCH

864. SEXY MOMA

865. SEXY SLIM

866. SEXYMOMA

867. SEXY-SLIM

868. SHAG

869. SHAGGIN

870. SHAGGING

871. SHAWTYPIMP

872. SHIT

873. SHIT DICK

874. SHIT EATER

875. SHIT FACE

876. SHIT FOR BRAINS

877. SHIT FUCK

878. SHIT FUCKER

879. SHIT HAPPENS

880. SHIT HEAD

881. SHIT OUT OF LUCK

882. SHIT STAIN

883. SHIT4BRAINS

884. SHITDICK

885. SHITEATER

886. SHITFACE

887. SHITFORBRAINS

888. SHITFUCK

889. SHITFUCKER

890. SHITHAPENS

891. SHITHAPPENS

892. SHITHEAD

893. SHITOUTOFLUCK

894. SHITS

895. SHITSTAIN

896. SHITTER

897. SHITTING

898. SHITTY

899. SHORT FUCK

900. SHORTFUCK

901. SHOWTIME

902. SIX SIX SIX

903. SIXSIXSIX

904. SIXTY 9

905. SIXTY NINE

906. SIXTY9

907. SIXTYNINE

908. SKANK

909. SKANK BITCH

910. SKANK FUCK

911. SKANK WHORE

912. SKANKBITCH

913. SKANKFUCK

914. SKANKWHORE

915. SKANKY BITCH

916. SKANKY WHORE

917. SKANKYBITCH

918. SKANKYWHORE

919. SKIN FLUTE

920. SKINFLUTE

921. SKUM

922. SKUM BAG

923. SKUMBAG

924. SLANT

925. SLANT EYE

926. SLANTEYE

927. SLAVE

928. SLAVE DRIVER

929. SLAVEDRIVER

930. SLEEZE BAG

931. SLEEZE BALL

932. SLEEZEBAG

933. SLEEZEBALL

934. SLIDE IT IN

935. SLIDEITIN

936. SLIME

937. SLIME BALL

938. SLIME BUCKET

939. SLIMEBALL

940. SLIMEBUCKET

941. SLUT

942. SLUT WEAR

943. SLUT WHORE

944. SLUTS

945. SLUTT

946. SLUTTING

947. SLUTTY

948. SLUTWEAR

949. SLUTWHORE

950. SMACK DADDY

951. SMACK THE MONKEY

952. SMACKTHEMONKEY

953. SMAGMA

954. SMART ASS

955. SNATCH

956. SNATCH PATCH

957. SNATCHPATCH

958. SNIPER

959. SNOT

960. SODOMITE

961. SODOMY

962. SON OF A BITCH

963. SONOFABITCH

964. SONOFBITCH

965. SPANK THE MONKEY

966. SPANKTHEMONKEY

967. SPERM

968. SPERM BAG

969. SPERM HEARDER

970. SPERM HERDER

971. SPERMACIDE

972. SPERMBAG

973. SPERMHEARDER

974. SPERMHERDER

975. SPIC

976. SPICK

977. SPIT

978. SPITTER

979. SPLIT TAIL

980. SPLIT TIAL

981. SPLITTAIL

982. STAGG

983. STRAP ON

984. STRAPON

985. STRINGER

986. STRIP CLUB

987. STRIPCLUB

988. STROKE

989. STROKING

990. STUPID

991. STUPID FUCK

992. STUPID FUCKER

993. STUPIDFUCK

994. STUPIDFUCKER

995. SUCK

996. SUCK DICK

997. SUCK ME

998. SUCK MY ASS

999. SUCK MY DICK

1000. SUCK MY TIT

1001. SUCK OFF

1002. SUCKDICK

1003. SUCKER

1004. SUCKME

1005. SUCKMYASS

1006. SUCKMYDICK

1007. SUCKMYTIT

1008. SUCKOFF

1009. SUICIDE

1010. SWIGN DIXX

1011. SWING DIXX

1012. SWINGIN DIXX

1013. SWINGING DICKS

1014. SYPHILIS

1015. TAMPON

1016. TESTICLE

1017. TESTICLES

1018. THIRD EYE

1019. THIRD LEG

1020. THIRDEYE

1021. THIRDLEG

1022. THREE SOME

1023. THREESOME

1024. TIT

1025. TIT BIT NIPPLY

1026. TIT FUCK

1027. TIT FUCKER

1028. TIT FUCKIN

1029. TIT JOB

1030. TIT LICKER

1031. TIT LOVER

1032. TITBITNIPPLY

1033. TITFUCK

1034. TITFUCKER

1035. TITFUCKIN

1036. TITJOB

1037. TITLICKER

1038. TITLOVER

1039. TITS

1040. TITTIES

1041. TITTY

1042. TONGETHRUSTER

1043. TONGUE

1044. TONGUE THRUSTER

1045. TONGUE TRAMP

1046. TONGUETHRUST

1047. TONGUETRAMP

1048. TOUNG THRUSTER

1049. TOUNGE BALLER

1050. TOUNGE THRUST

1051. TRAILER TRASH

1052. TRAILERTRASH

1053. TRAMP

1054. TRI SEXUAL

1055. TRIPLE X

1056. TRIPLEX

1057. TRISEXUAL

1058. TROJAN

1059. TROTS

1060. TUNNEL OF LOVE

1061. TUNNELOFLOVE

1062. TURD

1063. TWO BIT WHORE

1064. TWO ON ONE

1065. TWOBITWHORE

1066. UNFUCKABLE

1067. UP THE ASS

1068. UP THE BUTT

1069. UPSKIRT

1070. UPTHEASS

1071. UPTHEBUTT

1072.

1073.

1074.

1075. URINATE

1076. URINE

1077. UTERUS

1078. VAGINA

1079. VAGINAL

1080. VD

1081. VIBRATER

1082. VIBRATOR

1083. VIRGIN

1084. VIRGIN BREAKER

1085. VIRGINBREAKER

1086. VULVA

1087. WAYSTED

1088. WEENIE

1089. WET SPOT

1090. WETSPOT

1091. WHACKER

1092. WHISKEY DICK

1093. WHISKEYDICK

1094. WHISKY DICK

1095. WHISKYDICK

1096. WHITE TRASH

1097. WHITETRASH

1098. WHORE

1099. WHORE FUCKER

1100. WHORE HOUSE

1101. WHOREFUCKER

1102. WHOREHOUSE

1103. WIGGER

1104. WILLIE WANKER

1105. WILLIEWANKER

1106. WUUTANG

1107. XXX

1108. YELLOW MAN

1109. YELLOWMAN

DIA sent me on Tuesday an e-mail which I have attached to the original post. The key part is:

We can assure you there is no attempt to block the local Chinese media from attending various activities during the Vice President Xi JinPing’s visit or adopt any form of censorship. Invitations have been issued today to local media including Auckland and Wellington based Chinese media.

Better later than never!

The local Chinese media are saying that the NZ government is blocking their accreditation to cover the visit of the vice president Jinping this week. According to them no local Chinese media allowed at any function or press conference. …

Surely there’s a way to security check the local Chinese media to see if any are crazed Falung Gong and exclude them rather than them all?

This blog entry was brought to the attention of the Department of Internal Affairs.

The Department has responsibility for the overall management and coordination of media activity for the official visit by the Mr Xi Jinping, Vice President of the People’s Republic of China. There are a series of media opportunities over the period of the visit.

We can assure you there is no attempt to block the local Chinese media from attending various activities during the Vice President Xi JinPing’s visit or adopt any form of censorship. Invitations have been issued today to local media including Auckland and Wellington based Chinese media. We have also extended invitations to Press Gallery journalists and local Auckland and Wellington media. The only media restrictions that will apply are camera pool arrangements where there are space constraints. In such situations both the official Chinese media and local New Zealand media will have an equal opportunity to participate in the pool.

Enquiries are welcomed from all interested Chinese local media and we encourage them to contact us if they are interested in attending events during the Vice President’s visit or have concerns. We will endeavour to accommodate their needs within the space and security constraints. These are the same considerations that would apply for any official overseas government visit to New Zealand.

Internal Affairs operates an open, responsive media policy and is committed to ensuring that news media has reasonable access to information about the activities of the Department.

The media advisory outlining media opportunities is available from the Department of Internal Affairs.

Thank you for the opportunity to clarify the concerns that have been raised.

The episodes were about appeasing people who threaten violence is wrong, but it didn’t work. This time in episode 201 Comedy Central have even refused to allow the name of Muhammad, after the Southpark creators cunningly discussed him onside a bear costume.

This has nothing to do with religious tolerance. Comedy Central have allowed the show to show Jesus Christ defecating on an American flag. Their decisions are purely appeasement in the face of threatened violence from extremists. The sad thing is they don’t realise that what they do, encourages the extremists. It shows threatening violence wins.

In similar news, Reuters reports:

A Dutch court has acquitted a Muslim group of inciting hatred with a cartoon that questions the Holocaust, in the latest case to provoke debate about freedom of speech in the Netherlands.

The Arab European League (AEL), which published the cartoon on its website, was cleared of insulting Jews because it was not aiming to dispute the Holocaust but to highlight perceived double standards in free speech.

And that is the right ruling,

The AEL cartoon shows two men, beneath an ‘Auschwitz’ sign and beside several bodies, saying the victims might not have been Jewish but the target was six million – the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The AEL said the cartoon was part of a campaign it launched in 2006 to show “the double morals of the West during the Danish cartoon affair.” The image came with a disclaimer on the website saying the AEL did not support the views of the cartoon.

Except the AEL have been proven wrong about the double morals. No one has been killed, or even threatened over their Holocaust cartoon. There have been no burning of flags or storming of embassies.

The mad President of Iran tried to make a similar claim a few years ago by hosting a Holocaust cartoon competition. To his great dismay dozens of Jewish cartoonists submitted entries, rather than protest against it.

The best response to censorship is this:

After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”

“As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central’s message they sent about feeling afraid,” Norris said.

Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.

On her website Norris explains this is not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people’s right to express themselves.

The best way to stop the Islamic extremists threatening violence unless you censor, is if the response to their threats is to triple and quadruple the number of outlets who show the cartoon.

It should be a point of principle for every media outlet in the free world, to show such images, to show that threats will not work.

CHILD pornographers can be captured and prosecuted without having to resort to mandatory internet filters, says Barack Obama confidante and US Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich.

Speaking on ABC TV’s Q&A program last night, Mr Bleich said Australia had been made aware of his own government’s no internet censorship stance and that the US has had “healthy discussions” with its Australian counterparts on the matter.

“On the issue of the internet we have been very clear. The internet needs to be free,” Mr Bleich said.

“It needs to be free the way we have said skies have to be free, outer space has to be free, the polar caps have to be free, the oceans have to be free. They’re shared resources of all the people in the world.”

The US had told Australia child pornographers could be nabbed without the use of internet filters, Mr Bleich said.

“What we’ve said is we have been able to accomplish the goals that Australia has described, which is to capture and prosecute child pornographers and others who use the internet for terrible purposes, without having to use internet filters,” he said.

I like the quote about how the Internet is a shared resource of all the people in the world.

That has been my hope for Fiji, that with a set date for elections in 2014, there would be some progress. But alas, the situation is looking more like one step forward and two steps back.

The Fijian Government has released a draft decree of proposed media censorship. It would make Fiji even more repressive in terms of media freedom.

NZPA report:

The regime of self-appointed Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama yesterday issued a new media decree which Newspaper Publishers’ Association chief executive and New Zealand Media Freedom Committee secretary Tim Pankhurst described as “highly oppressive”. …

“It not only targets editors and their journalists. Any members of the public brave enough to express dissenting views are also in line for crippling fines, ill treatment and jail.”

Media outlets could be fined up to F$500,000 (about NZ$344,000) and individual journalists up to F$100,000 (NZ$69,000) and be jailed for up to five years if they failed to comply with the decree’s dictates.

Offences included such “crimes” as criticising the government and even failing to run bylines, Mr Pankhurst said. Foreign media ownership was also restricted.

The foreign media restrictions are an attempt to close down the Fiji Times. The Commodore hates them especially as they refuse to describe him as the Prime Minister, unless he actually wins an election to that post.

Some aspects from the media decree:

• The Minister of Information personally appoints, and can sack at any time, the Director of the Media Industry Development Authority
• One of the tasks of the MIDA is to ban any material which creates “communal discord”
• MIDA will require all media organisations to be registered with them
• Breaches of MIDA rules will carry a potential penalty of $500,000 for an organisation and $100,000 plus five years in jail for individuals.
• MIDA has police like powers to search and seize documents from media organisations
• Bans foreign ownership of over 10% in a media organisation, which will close down the Fiji Times.
• Sets up a Tribunal with the Chair appointed by the Attorney-General to hear complaints, and which must act within “guidelines’ given by the Minister
• The Minister can by order prohibit any broadcast or publication that may give rise to disorder, and can demand copies in advance
• The decree explicitly forbids any Court hearing a challenge to not just the legality of this decree, but any decisions made by the Authority, Tribunal or Minister under this decree
• The media code bans “hypnotism” and “demonstrating exorcism”!

Cafe Pacific has a good analysis of the decree.

Coup 4,5 report:

This is very broad so it will be interesting to see what kind of stories come under this criteria. Censors are already stopping the publication of stories which make the interim government look bad; eg water and power cuts and bad road conditions leading to pot holes.

This clause really means any stories which the interim regime doesn’t like because it exposes them or shows that they’re not doing a good job, is not in their interest and offends them as it creates communal discord.

The communal disorder clause is what will allow the Government to ban anything which criticises the Government, or if it gets published to imprison the journalist for up to five years.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against a widely read but controversial US-based website over an article that it says encourages racial hatred against Aborigines.

But online rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia said trying to stamp out the deplorable content would only create the “Streisand” effect, whereby an attempt to censor online content only brings more attention to it.

In a letter to Joseph Evers, the owner of Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED) – a more shocking version of Wikipedia that contains racist and other offensive articles dubbed as “satire” – the Commission said it had received 20 complaints from Aborigines over the “Aboriginal” page on the site. …

On the Australian Communication and Media Authority’s blacklist of “refused classification” websites, which was leaked in March last year, encyclopediadramatica.com was included. This means the entire site will likely be blocked under the government’s forthcoming internet filtering plan.

This is why I don’t like filters.  It is outrageous that the Australian Government will block such a site.

Don’t get me wrong – the site is highly highly offensive to many people. It is a rather puerile site (rather than a smart satire site) that just abuses everybody and everyone in the most insulting way it can. But being offensive is not a reason to be banned or blocked.

I cite again the words of Noam Chomsky, who said there is little virtue in defending popular speech – it is defending unpopular and even offensive speech that is courageous.

When we allow the state to start deciding what parts of the Internet we are allowed to see, that is a bad thing.

The Otago University Students Association wants broadcast media to sign a censorship contract before attending Ori10 concerts.

The annual orientation event starts tomorrow and upon requesting media passes to cover it, Dunedin’s Channel 9 production manager Luke Chapman received a media release form.

The contract contained clauses banning broadcast of footage “showing severe intoxication . . . including, but not limited to vomiting, concussion, fighting, individuals receiving medical attention, and sexually explicit material”.

Oh how wonderful. Instead of having events with no vomiting, fighting or injuries, OUSA just wants to ban the media from showing such activities.

TV3 reporter Dave Goosselink compared OUSA’s attempts at controlling the media to the Fijian Government.

He had never signed a contract to attend orientation events before and said the station never intentionally chased drunk people.

TV3 had never seen a contract like it and he believed one had never existed in New Zealand.

TVNZ One News editor Paul Patrick said he would not sign a contract.

“If they don’t want us to cover orientation, we won’t,” he said.

When he first saw the contract, he “thought it was a joke”.

And universities are meant to be bastions of free speech!

It is only a small way removed from the Islamic extremists who burnt down an Embassy, because they didn’t like the cartoons of a newspaper in a country. Of course that was a more extreme act, but what they have in common is both sets of people think their God allows them to break the law to try and suppress a message or image they do not approve of. It is the thin end of theocratic rule.

There are many legitimate ways people could take action against the billboard of St Matthew-in-the-City. They include:

• Complain to the Advertising Standards Authority (as Family First did)
• Protest outside St Matthews
• Put up your own billboard with an alternative message
• Lobby for the leadership of St Matthews to be disciplined or sacked by the church hierarchy (if possible)
• Try and have the entire parish booted out of the Anglican Church

But instead the nutters have won, with their campaign of destruction:

After the latest attack, by an elderly woman with a knife last night, the church said the billboard would not be replaced.

The Vicar of St Matthew-in-the-City, Glynn Cardy, said the billboard was “attacked by a knife-wielding Christian fanatic who was then apprehended by a group of homeless people who care about our church. Later in the evening another group of fanatics ripped it down.

I wonder how the fanatics would feel if someone threw bricks through all the windows at their local church, because someone doesn’t like their message.

It isn’t far removed from the morons who vandalise Jewish graves because they don’t like Judaism.

There is no right in New Zealand not to be offended by a religious message. If you are offended, then tough. Either take action under the law, or lump it. But you do not have the right to destroy private property of a church, because you are offended by their message.

But for all those who cheer on the extremists and vandals, well don’t cry out for sympathy when the same happens to your church. I mean if the Catholic Church beatifies Pope Pius XII, then it must be legitimate for Jewish activists to vandalise Catholic cathedrals to protest such an offensive move (Pius XII refused to publicly condemn the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews), if you think it is legitimate for Christian activists to vandalise St Matthews billboard.

With money granted in this year’s Budget, it plans to provide internet providers with Swedish-devised software that matches site requests to a “banned” list and reroutes the requests to a government computer. The internet companies would have to volunteer to take part, unlike in other countries where compulsory filtering of paedophilic sites is proposed. Consumers would, then, be able to avoid filtering if they object on principle to such restrictions.

Technology commentators have raised concerns that this scheme could be the thin end of a wedge by which the state seeks to “filter” other internet material or sites that it, later, deems unwelcome. They are right to be concerned. The public’s freedom to “seek, receive and impart information and opinion of any kind and in any form” is protected by section 14 of the Bill of Rights Act.

Yet even that law recognises there can be reasons to over-ride that freedom. Reducing the demand for, and profits from, material depicting child sexual abuse would surely qualify in the public mind as one of them.

A tightly targeted, voluntary scheme including most internet providers is better than a compulsory regime. Those deciding what cannot be accessed must themselves be regularly reviewed to ensure the scheme stays strictly on track.

As I previously blogged, I would look to have the Auditor-General’s Office regularly vet the scheme against its publicly stated mandate.

On balance, because of the gravity of the offences against children, and the prevalence of the problem, with 26 convictions in this country in the past six months for collecting or distributing child sex abuse images, some restriction seems justifiable. Limited censorship is the lesser of two evils.

The expert advice I have is that the filtering scheme will not stop the hard core offenders. They trade in chat rooms, Usenet groups etc and will use overseas ISPs if necessary to get around any filters.

What the scheme *may* do is help prevent those “curious” about child porn from acting on their curiosity and end up breaking the law. Some of those go on to get “addicted” to  such images and become professional traders etc.

So no one should think the filtering scheme will make a massive difference to the demand for illegal material. However that is not to say it won’t make some difference – and as the Herald says you have to weigh that up.

Radio NZ did a piece this morning:

The Australian government plans to force Australian ISPs to filter out more than a thousand websites with content including child pornography, excessive violence, crime and drug information as well as promoting terrorism.

The policy, dubbed the ‘Great Aussie Firewall’, has been met with a storm of criticism across the Tasman.

Internet New Zealand board member David Farrar says much of the banned content is traded over peer-to-peer networks which won’t be caught by filters.

He says the filters will also cause a sharp fall in download speeds for Australian users.

Internet Service Providers Association of New Zealand president Jamie Baddeley said the policy is insane and unworkable.

But he says it is symptomatic of pressure coming on ISPs to do more to police the internet.

One can also listen to the full item, at the bottom of the linked page. Jordan Cater is also interviewed.

I’ve also just been interview by TV3 for their 6 pm news tonight on the same issue.

I commented that luckily in NZ we have far smarter MPs, and I doubt more than a handful here would back some sort of compulsory government filter.

Also put in a plug for Netsafe, who provide really great resources for those worried about Internet safety.

Well a wee while back Winston blogged on the same topic at the Winston Peters blog.

Now Dave Moskowitz tried to comment on Winston’s blog, adding a link through to the interview with Doug Woolerton.

His comment was rejected! Why? He phoned up and was told they could not link to anything “with bad language in it”.

So they won’t link to an interview with one of their own MPs, because of the MP swearing during the interview!!

That is a new definition of having standards. We are fine to have our MPs swear, but not fine to allow people to link to audio recordings of them doing so!

Advertising by way of blogging, use of Wikipedia or similar, are two examples where abuse may occur. Wikipedia does not appear to have adequate structures in place to monitor and control abuse of the system.

Regulation to control the type of use of the internet for political/campaigning purposes should be put in place …

Caughey also supports extending the EFA to local bodies, so there are restrictions on paid advocacy for all of local body election year.

Not content with regulating blogs, Wikipedia and spending, she also advocates regulating monitoring and assessing the media.

Aaron Bhatnagar has fun dissecting her points one at a time.

How did such a person get elected in the first place, and why in God’s name has Labour appointed someone who wants to regulate Wikipedia to a powerful transport funding board?

Arguably, no single innovation has changed the shape of modern life quite as much.

The Internet is one of the most remarkable “inventions” of our times.

It has altered utterly the possibilities for, and nature of, communication, that most basic of human interactions.

And it has changed it at all levels of society: in academia, in the military, in business, in politics, in finance, in the media, and in education.

Few, if any, realms of endeavour are untouched by it.

I try to think sometimes if any other invention has changed the world as much as the Internet. Maybe fire? Or the printing press?

Both major political parties, Labour and National, appear to see it as critical to economic growth and international competitiveness.

Indeed, but with somewhat different approaches.

But like any new technology, especially one so ubiquitous in its applications, it brings with it a host of “issues”.

Many of these arise in the social arena, a fact underlined by the Queenstown conference: “Cybercitizens: Risks, Rights and Responsibilities of Participation in the Information Age”.

Cyberbullying, cybersafety, social networking, child pornography and online grooming were all officially or unofficially on the agenda.

NetSafe is to be congratulated for raising awareness of attendant Internet “problems”, many of which are becoming all too real: a conference report in this newspaper on Thursday canvassed the matter of “complicit victims” – children as young as 12 actively seeking sexual contact with adults on the Internet with little idea of the consequences of their actions.

Netsafe do a wonderful job in this area, and unlike some other bodies have a very balanced approach.

Research in the United States showed 55% of people valued their online communities as much as their offline – or real-life – interactions.

Shocking though this may seem, it is fast becoming a reality that an older less “wired” generation must learn to accept, while helping to devise safeguards that will assist their children to negotiate the vast repository of unsuitable, potentially damaging, or downright dangerous material that is perennially a mouse click or two away.

All the best advice appears to be that imposing blanket bans is ineffective and counterproductive.

They are indeed both ineffective and often counterproductive.

Because, like it or not, the Internet is now part of the fabric of all our lives.

It has changed the nature of communication, and it is changing the nature of society.

Indeed. How did we survive before blogs?

“We are concerned that user-generated video content on sites such as YouTube does not carry any age classification, nor is there a watershed before which it cannot be shown.”

How stupid are these people? A watershed time before some content can be shown? Oh yes that will work. And what time zone should be used, morons?

The MPs expressed their anger that the operators of such sites did not routinely screen clips posted on them by the public.

Oh yes that is so very practical. Let us look at how many videos are uploaded every day – around 65,000. Now if each is ten minutes long, then one person can do around 50 in a day. So these UK MPs think You Tube (which costs $1 million a day to run already) should hire around 1,300 staff just to screen the videos that come in.

Incidentially did you know You Tube concumses more bandwidth today than the entire Internet consumed in 2000?

They said the practical problems of sifting through vast quantities of material could be overcome as technology is being developed that can rapidly spot hardcore pornography when it is uploaded.

Pornography is banned on You Tube. It normally gets reported very quickly and is gone within hours or minutes. Do these MPs really think people spend all their time on You Tube frantically searching for porn in the few minutes it is there before it is deleted?

I mean if people want porn, they will go to Youporn or Pornotube which have nothing but pornography.

“In a lucrative market, the cost to internet service providers of installing software to block access to child pornography sites should not come second to child safety,” the committee said.

Child pornography is sickening and authorities do a good job in prosecuting those who produce or distribute it etc. But the incidence of child pornography on You Tube is incredibly small, and anyone who uploads it will have their IP address given to authorities.

In terms of wider issues around access to child porn, I agree ISPs should restrict access where possible. But any such blacklists should be based on emperical evidence (ie the site has been verified as having illegal material) such as the British Cleanfeed system, and not on automated filters which “guess” is a site has illegal material and ends up blocking legal content.

The committee called for video-sharing sites to include a “one-click” facility that enabled users to report clips appearing to contain images of abuse directly to the police.

Not a bad idea, but which Police? The FBI? Scotland Yard?b

In terms of safety is the web getting better or worse?

“The internet is neutral about these things – it’s really a question about the users. One of the reasons I’m participating in this is to assist with the constant requirement for user education – in this case we’ll be educating the educators. It’s a bit like saying is fire a good thing or is the wheel a good thing. It’s good when it’s done properly.”

That’s a great response. The Internet is no more good or bad than fire or wheels are.

What are the biggest threats to our internet freedom?

“The biggest threat to the internet itself is developing the wrong culture along the lines that I was just talking about. If we get that wrong, it’ll be humans and the way that humans use this particular tool that will cause the problems. You’ve got to be clear – there’s nothing inherently good or bad in the technology itself, it’s what we choose to do with it.

Indeed.

Our own stupidity that could trip us up?

“Yes. The sort of threats at the moment come from people attempting to impose controls and that runs into all the usual problems that we’ve struggled with over the centuries of this civilisation.

“Where the boundaries are between harmful knowledge and harmful expression and the right to freedom of expression. Getting the balance right is always very difficult. It seems clearer in war time for example when there’s an acknowledged crisis, civil liberties are curtailed. Absent those circumstances we struggle to be as clear as we can. Another clear example is the universal prohibition on child pornography and the exploitation of children. Those don’t cause much debate – it’s in political expression and inciting racial hatred and these sorts of areas where the current debate is raging.

I think religious expression is very much a topical issue also.

Do you think we’ll be left with another toothless [copyright] law with one test case that will fall over at appeal and leave us back at square one?

“There’s a worse case than it being toothless and that’s it being very toothful – ISPs having to go around closing down all sorts of relatively routine and safe and stable websites because they happen to be hosting – even if it’s against their knowledge – some infringing material.

The new law removed any penalty for filing a false takedown notice, so the potential for misuse is considerable.

Should it be up to ISPs to police the behaviour of their customers? It’s almost like Transit NZ being blamed for a road crash.

“Occasionally Transit are responsible for that if they’ve designed the road badly, but in this case, I take the view that ISPs have a role that’s supposed to be no greater that that of other citizens in relation to infringements. I particularly disagree with the thrust of the current amendment, which turns the ISPs into enforcement agents for copyright owners. I’m a copyright lawyer and I’ve acted for copyright owners and I’ve written on the value of copyright to the community. It’s not an attack on copyright but we do need to get the balance right between copyright interests and the rights of ordinary citizens and what’s good for the internet industries.

For an intellectual property lawyer, he speaks a lot of sense

Grand Theft Auto IV is scheduled for release this week. It follows on from previous Grand Theft Auto games which included constant graphic violence and sexual situations. Players could re-enact having sex with a prostitute, beating her bloody, taking her money and running her over with a car and shooting at police officers.

Rockstar Games which produces the game says the company is going even further in its pursuit of realism with this latest game in the series and players can buy cocaine, set enemies alight, shoot a policeman, drink drive, and visit strip clubs – all with improved physics and animation which makes the game feel more real, according to reviewers.

I mean can anyone rule out that they really are on commission for the promoters. I mean who doesn’t want to set their enemies alight

Incidentally how many know that there is an autobiography on Gordon Copeland? Yes, seriously.

In fact Mr Hansford was not sacked by The Listener, and nor did The Listener seek to censor or suppress Mr Hansford’s views. Hot Topic and AUT Media Ltd accept that The Listener and its editor have a strong commitment to environmental issues, and that there was no basis for any of the criticisms expressed on this site of either The Listener or its editor, or of the editorial integrity and independence of The Listener. Hot Topic and AUT Media Ltd unreservedly withdraw those statements an apologise to The Listener and to Pamela Stirling for the distress caused by our publication.

While blogs, like any publication, are not immune from the responsibility of good faith and accuracy, it seems fairly heavy handed to sic the lawyers onto a blog rather than using the opportunities blogs provide to provide rebuttal and the other side of the story. I hope this isn’t the start of a trend.

All Emily did was quote a few lines from sex blogger – Always Aroused Girl. She even asterisked out the really naughty words, but did leave in scream, ecstasy and spit. Oh dear – the horrors.

The deleted editor’s letter is here.  Can’t say it seems too over the top for me, but I guess the SST were more worried about a commercial backlash.

Hat Tip: Editor’s Weblog