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[–]Clownfall 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Not suprising, in a country that's literally covering trains in the divisive culture war flag (the 'traditional rainbow design' is too conservative).

https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/pride-scotrail-train-unveiled

Don't expect them to run on time, or have seats available, or be priced even vaguely reasonably. But the virtue signals are guaranteed to be functioning...

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Don't expect them to run on time,

You know who got the trains to run on time?

Yeah, that's right, HITLER! Public mass transit that functions according to stringent schedules is what Nazis want! Don't be a Nazi, embrace having your buses and trains arriving whenever.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Mussolini not Hitler

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 2 insightful - 8 fun2 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

That was just pizza-Hitler!

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

that was George Will's argument (until fellow laptop-class nullity Paul Krugman caught him getting off the Auschwitzmobile)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/36kbisz8.mov

But then we did the ping dance.

[–]wylanderuk 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Its probably fuck all to do with the train company but instead the mobile provider they are using for net access....Probably a telefonica/o2 based service.

Also any feminazi complaining can suck my dick, because those fucking harpys got their claws into that set of filters fucking decades ago...So in passing? Fuck em.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah, it’s rich to complain about censorship on transport after the Protein World furore and the “Staring is illegal” shit, which I bet they support.

Turns out that the reason it got blocked was because it uses the word “sex” a lot and the filter was trained to use that as a way of detecting Adult material. So it was the service provider’s fault as you surmised and it was likely accidental and not deliberate.

[–]wylanderuk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Oh yeah it would be the providers issue, but I would not be so quick to label it accidental though...Those filters do have a political/ideological bias.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

My experience, most filters are haphazard bandaid solutions to silence the voices of moralist types who don't really understand how such things work but feel the need to demand that such safeguards are put in place.

Now I fully agree with the idea that it's not a good thing for people to access hardcore pornography in public on the train, and don't really care if you block it, but the filters are usually shit. They can't tell the difference between sexy teenage milfs and sexual violence hotline.

[–]wylanderuk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah but this was not blocked by a porn filter though, which I agree is not a really bad thing on free wifi on public transport. It was blocked under terrorism/hate categories.

Its a clear bias, just like years ago I tried to access a voice for men website via mobile data and it was blocked, but your usual feminist drivel was not.

Hell there is good chance this site is blocked for being gender critical, but I would lay money that gender affirming sites would probably squeak through with out issues.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's two arguments here, one is the free speech argument, other is public order.

Now personally, I wish we lived in a world where people would just mind their own business (well I do, sucks for earthlings) but unfortunately if you're going on reading about, god I dunno, Nazi Jewish genocide for example on the train, you are likely to set off the busybody sitting next to you who can't help but poke their nose somewhere it doesn't belong, even if I'm reading about Nazi Jewish genocide because I'm against it and I just want to know what my opponents think, doesn't matter to the idiot busibody and they'll start shit on the train, which you don't want.

That said, if they're gonna provide wifi, blocking shit needs to be done carefully otherwise they'll just seem to be ideologues. Personally I'm of the opinion that it's usually leftists that go and complain to the authorities about such things which is why you see generally their opposing side of the political aisle banned (rightists also complain but tend to complain to the person directly rather than complaining to the authorities imho)

That said could also just be a low level employee doing this shit. Always online types tend to be woke and they tend to take the online oriented positions. I've had to deal with such in the past in various cross cultural contexts and it's very tiring explaining to them that there are people who don't hold their opinion and that they can't go about insisting everyone agree with them.

[–]wylanderuk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The filters used by mobile providers here in the UK were a compromise between mobile providers and the government...The strange thing being the filters are run by norton or they were at one point...

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

brooks loved w bush but is a never trumper. Now why is that.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

didn't start enough wars for their liking, that's usually what pissed off the "ex-Republicans" against Trump

(shit you not, there are grown-ass men and women who have a mortgage, shave, get dressed without a handler, are allowed to drive, and babble on the teevee that they wanted to see Donald J. Trump in charge of a war)

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

DNS over HTTPS should help with this.