[Foundation-l] and what if...

[Henning Schlottmann]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 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.)

Your addendum makes the point: Outsourcing censorship to a private body
with no public appeal process is a bad idea. And the UK public noticed
that now. Let's see if the incident has legislative consequences. But
that is not our problem.

On the other hand, a governmental agency with proper procedures and
processes would have acted much slower in both directions.
Self-regulatory bodies might be too fast in acting sometimes - but they
are more flexible in reacting than governments as well.

Ciao Henning