On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And I support that - blocking child porn on the
internet is a good
thing. What I'd like to see is a little more oversight in the system
and them notifying blockees (they'll probably say they can't do that
because the child porn people would then know to move their site, and
there is a point there, but I don't see a workable alternative -
they'll just have to work harder to find out where they've moved to).
Well, everyone agrees that child porn is evil and should be combated
(well, not everyone, but those who don't are fucked up), but their
method is a spectacularly bad way of doing it. It's good that because
of the wikipedia block there's a debate about the IWF.
Oh, sure, there are massive technical problems with their way of
blocking, but that's a separate issue to the one of censorship.
Censoring an encyclopaedia article is wrong regardless of how you do
it.