Not Getting It
Posted: Tue 6 February, 2007 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky 2 Comments »Sometimes you just have to laugh at the way the government just doesn’t get the entire internet and chatroom thing. In this instance, the story about registered sex offenders having to provide details of their email addresses and ‘chatroom identities’ (no, I’m not making this up)
Anyone who’s actually used Internet Chat (whether it be MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, whatever) will know how easy it is to set up email addresses, profiles, IDs, the lot. God, if I think back a couple of years to when I haunted Yahoo chat, I had a couple of hundred IDs.
So it amuses me when they’re talking about registering ‘paedophile IDs’ – it’s so easy to set up another one, this really is either a) an attempt to say ‘look how on top of things we are’ or b) a proper display of knowing chuff-all about anything technological and/or internet based.
Or c) both. Which I guess is the most likely…
For ages now there’s been talk of having a ‘.xxx’ or ‘.sex’ domain setup up for porno web sites. So how about HM Government making all sex offenders having a ‘nonce.uk’ email address, such as gary.glitter@nonce.uk
I don’t think the internet could cope with 95% of websites all having the same TLD, Richard.