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11 Oct 2024 07:12:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Internet censorship in Finland  
From: Brian Elliott
Date: 14 Feb 2008 07:59:26
Message: <47b43b2e@news.povray.org>
"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message 
news:47b43264$1@news.povray.org...
>>  The police having free control over what gets censored and what doesn't,
>> independently of whether censoring something is legal or not, and without
>> anyone watching over the process, ie. in other words the police can break
>> the law without consequences, is one sign of a police state.
>>
>>  Who watches the police so that they don't break the law in this matter?
>> Nobody.
>
> Don't you have law-makers there who tell the police what to do?  If the 
> police start doing stupid stuff (like blocking all sites outside of 
> finland) then surely the law-makers would intervene?

How does that help?  It's already well into damage by the time it gets to 
that stage.  And governments tend to strongly favour listening to their 
police commissioners than to the protests of people about their police.


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