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While I have no interest in pornography, this is one step closer to fascism. I worry what will happen next. Journalism filters? Blog filters? International vide
by kunai 13y ago
While I have no interest in pornography, this is one step closer to fascism. I worry what will happen next. Journalism filters? Blog filters? International video filters? And if this is the case, then what is the result for neighboring countries? Will they decide to be as totalitarian as well?
I know this is mainly the ISPs' decision, but I can't help but feel that government influence is a large factor in the filters.
- ankitml 13y agothe great wall of united kingdom
- motters 13y agoHadrian's firewall
- im3w1l 13y agoIt will certainly be easier to set up other kinds of content filters once the infrastructure is already there. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-int...
- coob 13y agoThe infrastructure is already there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_sys...
- GeneralMayhem 13y agoA bigger problem is the "he's a terrorist" issue - if there are not severe and well-defined repercussions for using a filter with false positives, and an active watchdog enforcing them, what's to stop, for example, anonnews from suddenly finding itself declared as pornography? Once one thing is censored, you may as well consider everything else already censored as well not just as a slippery slope but as a fact, because anything else they want censored will just mysteriously get pushed into the same pile.
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