Wednesday, July 2

Image Of The Week #87

Talk about strict!

(taken in an Irish Pub in Osaki - 27th June, 2008)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great place! Well maybe not!!!!!!! Japanese mobile telephone content providers are setting up safeguards to protect young people amid shock after a disgruntled young man used his phone to document his plans for a stabbing rampage.

An association representing the mobile content industry announced this week a list of 22 criteria that would allow online sites to use a label showing that they are suitable for minors.

Nearly all Japanese mobile telephones allow access to the Internet, where special sites designed for the small screens have become an increasingly lucrative business.

"We want to support the upbringing of young people by giving them the means to use new technology in complete safety," said a joint statement outlining the new label.

Mobile phone websites that want the safety label would have to agree to abide by 22 criteria including that they will closely monitor postings and report suspicious messages to authorities.

Mobile content providers have been alarmed by bad publicity as a number of people use websites to arrange group suicides or announce plans for crimes.

Last month, troubled 25-year-old auto worker Tomohiro Kato posted dozens of messages warning of plans for a massacre as he drove a rented two-tonne truck to Tokyo.

He killed seven people and injured 10 more by swerving his truck into a crowded pedestrian area and then bursting out and stabbing people at random.

Authorities came under fire after the crime for failing to spot his warnings.

Kato, who also posted hundreds of messages earlier detailing his loneliness, told police that he grew even more agitated as he was ignored in the virtual world.

The government said after the massacre that it would research new technology to filter messages on the Internet

Ban Whale Hunting

Do not support the Japenesse Whale Hunters

phil-san said...

Gp (general public?),

What an awfully crap article. Stinks of the Daily Mail, if you ask me. (although it appears to be from Yahoo News)

Doesn't this 'freak' occurrence show that, in fact, Japan is a great place? That it doesn't happen every week is the point.

And as for controlling phones, you think the internet, phones and other media in any other country is not worse?! Two words:

Happy Slapping.

As for whale hunting; slightly hypocritical. I bet you don't campaign for all free-range chickens, or for Australia to stop killing kangaroos etc.

phil-san said...

more gp...

great place?
giant panda?
green peas?