Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 20:47, geni wrote:
On 22/10/2007, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Of course not. The risk here is of a slippery
slope. If this goes
through,
ThePirateBay.org is next - and then _every_ website will be a
potential target under German law, whether it targets a German
speaking audience or not. There's a potential for things to get really
ugly for German Internet users.
Not really. If you live outside the US your internet will if not
already being censored will be over the next decade.
I'm not afraid. Here the government is so incompetent it wouldn't
know how to
censor the Internet even when it finds out what it is.
No government is exempt from
that. Technological competence is not part
of a politician's job description. It's also a problem for many other
professions. Politicians react most quickly to fear, and to perceived
problems that arise from fear. The problems arising from pornsters and
con-artists are easily put in the faces of politicians, and inspire them
to quick fixes that have unforeseen restrictive effects on the majority
of people, who would never dream of engaging in such behaviour.
Ec