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Singapore has banned two YouTube-like file sharing porn sites in what the government is calling a "symbolic statement."

The two sites, Youporn and Redtube, have been added to a list of 100 "mass objectionable" Web sites that the government finds especially accessible and therefore especially harmful to children. The sites stream home-made porn as soon as the link is clicked upon.

The intent here is clear, but what is not clear is what effect the government believes this will have, seeing as how there are literally millions of pornographic Web sites readily available to anyone with an Internet connection. No matter how quickly sites are banned, there is always a new site ready to take its place. Publicized political moves have always favored style over substance, so perhaps this is just par for the course.

Ah politics. Big talk, little impact, and a host of national ills that politicians choose to paper over with painfully ineffective political dribble. [Source: Reuters]


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