> "What else will be banned?" This is what worries me the most. If there is going to be a government approved 'blacklist' it suddenly becomes very easy to block content that the politicians decide is unsuitable.
This will happen.
In 2008, The Finnish police have added Finnish hacker Matti Nikki's website criticizing Internet censorship to Finland’s new national child porn filter.The scan also found that the top three results of a Google search for "gay porn" are blacklisted. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Finnish_internet_censorship_crit...
In Sweden in 2007, the child porn filter also blocked the Korean Bonsai Association. Far worse than Bonsai trees, the porn filter was also used to block a political web site over a Mohammad cartoon that enraged muslims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4700414.stm
What political web sites are blocked the child porn filter today? We have no way to tell.
Denmark has a similar filter (except less effective, it relies on corporation by the DNS providers so all you have to do is use googles DNS) the list itself is secret but it was leaked to wikileaks. On it was several CP sites that were hosted in europe and were shutdown within days, as well as a ton of gay porn and a Duch truck rental company.
The official response? We will consider adding wikileaks to the list of banned sites, for some reason this was never accepted.
This will happen.
In 2008, The Finnish police have added Finnish hacker Matti Nikki's website criticizing Internet censorship to Finland’s new national child porn filter.The scan also found that the top three results of a Google search for "gay porn" are blacklisted. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Finnish_internet_censorship_crit...
In Sweden in 2007, the child porn filter also blocked the Korean Bonsai Association. Far worse than Bonsai trees, the porn filter was also used to block a political web site over a Mohammad cartoon that enraged muslims. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4700414.stm
What political web sites are blocked the child porn filter today? We have no way to tell.
Slippery slope, indeed.