Embarrassing for the danish police... yes. But ultimately this type of censorship does not really represent a slippery slope towards 1984. The rationale is to

Embarrassing for the danish police... yes. But ultimately this type of censorship does not really represent a slippery slope towards 1984. The rationale is to protect child pornography victims from being further victimised by having their photos spread. It is hard to have a strong moral point against that. I think all of the scandinavian countries have this type of system now: a way for ISPs for voluntarily configure their DNS servers to direct requests for domains known by the police to host child pornography towards some police-hosted web site. I think it started in Sweden, close to a decade ago. Any use of this system to censor anything that is not CP would very likely be met by harsh criticism. The fact that the censorship of every particular web page is very public ensures that. All in all, I think this is a sensible, measured approach. (On the other hand.. I don't think this thing will stop that much CP. The more widespread the approach gets, the more people will work around it.)