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The slippery slope started when they installed these blocks "for child porn only!" way back when. They even said, specifically, that no other content would ever
by UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
The slippery slope started when they installed these blocks "for child porn only!" way back when. They even said, specifically, that no other content would ever be blocked.
Since then they added "violent [adult] porn," "illegal 'terrorist' sites," and now they've started doing pirate-related content.
So the slippery slope started a long time ago. We are half way down it and it is only getting steeper.
- nwh 14y agoAustralians don't have to worry. Our filter is child porn only. It'll never be used for anything else. Child porn and morally offensive websites. Just those two. We swear.
- DanBC 14y agoAren't these blocks very different to the blocks of sites dealing in images of child sexual abuse? This was a private case between industry and a few ISPs. The IWF blocklist is strictly about images of child sexual abuse (hosted world-wide), images of criminally obscene content (hosted in UK) and non-photographic images of child sexual abuse. The block is a temporary block until illegal content is removed. (http://www.iwf.org.uk/ http://www.iwf.org.uk/)
- desas 14y agoThe blocking technology (cleanfeed) was installed by most ISPs for the IWF blocking, once it was installed the industry took the ISPs to court to use it for blocking other things.