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Censorship is always abused. Once the infrastructure is in place, it's used for all kinds of things. They always start with the usual "think of the children" or
by tomatsu 10y ago
Censorship is always abused. Once the infrastructure is in place, it's used for all kinds of things. They always start with the usual "think of the children" or "it's against terrorism" spiel, but sooner or later it's used to sweep anything inconvenient under the rug.
- tarancato 10y agoMost developed countries already have the infrastructure in place for fighting piracy, and I don't see it being used to "censor dissidents"
- tomatsu 10y agoDMCAs aren't the same thing, but those are also abused to silence negative opinions. If you give people a powerful tool, they tend to get funny ideas.