[Foundation-l] and what if...

[Thomas Dalton]

> Any society considering a Great Firewall of any sort is neither
> democratic nor open, whether or not they periodically hold votes on
> exactly who should implement bad ideas. We should not in any way
> acknowledge or respect such, though we should help those who live
> there and encourage and assist them in circumvention.

Countries have laws. The state enforces those laws. That's one of the
main purposes of having a state over anarchy. Censoring parts of the
internet is pretty much the only way to enforce child pornography laws
(when the sites are hosted abroad). I don't see anything undemocratic
about that. It's a democratically elected government making the laws
and those laws don't prevent free and fair elections, so it isn't
undemocratic. (Of course, an semi-official and unaccountable agency
like the IWF enforcing the laws is not a great way to go about it.)