POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Internet censorship in Finland : Re: Internet censorship in Finland Server Time
11 Oct 2024 09:20:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Internet censorship in Finland  
From: scott
Date: 15 Feb 2008 03:04:07
Message: <47b54777@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.

Well vote for someone else at the next election then.  And if you say 
"they'll all do the same" then start a new political party, which if your 
thoughts are not in the minority, will do quite well I would expect.


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