Unless you've been living in a cave the past few weeks, you will no doubt have heard about the latest cries of outrage from our permanently outraged Islamist MPs over the use of Bluetooth technology to "spread evil and corrupt the minds of our youth and erode our traditional values!!"
This all came about after a few guys with too much time on their hands used their camera-phones to take still pictures or movies of unsuspecting girls (and boys!) in compromising positions and broadcast them all over the place using Bluetooth wireless technology. I haven't seen any of these pictures, but they apparently run from totally harmless shots of girls stuffing their faces with french fries to other more, um, "explicit" shots.
As expected, our Islamist MPs can be counted on to call for a total ban on these devices. The question I have is this: Can we find similar incidents of abuse of Bluetooth technology in Europe, where it was invented? Or is this sick behavior exclusive to bored and repressed societies such as ours? There is a correlation at work here; the more repressed a society, the more depraved its frustrated teenagers. Hence, in Saudi Arabia the big scandal a few weeks ago was the filming and subsequent broadcasting of a video of a girl being RAPED!!
Some perverts covertly taking pictures of girls(or boys) no way marks that technology as evil. Totally shunning off bluetooth will deprive a major section of the society out of technological innovations. People should protest this.
ReplyDeleteYeah sure there must be similar occurences in developed nations. It's only that hypocrites are giving undue attention to it.
Finally, The fucker's who made a film and commited this dastardly act of raping a girl must anyhow be brought to justice.
I`m Toothless ;D
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/04/18/britain.toothing.reut/
New technologies and privacy.. now that's a big issue to tackle..
ReplyDeleteI understand people's concerns, but to call for a ban would be outrageous.
Back in the old days Muslim countries were like a barrier to the passage of printing from China to the West. The Turks thought it a sin to print religious books. Sultan something (I'll look the name up later) issued a decree punishing the practice of printing with the death penalty.
Thank god Islamist MP's don't have that kind of power or else it will be all "just a little bit of history repeating".
(I was referring to the tiny blurry text on the darker blue background, Zaydoun)
Oh that text.... I have no idea. I even tried magnifying it
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled upon your blog a few days back while on the internet, we'll that should hardly matter. Nice blog.
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