scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> >>I know you are just pretending to be this dumb to carry on the argument 
> >>with me...

  Now you are patrinizing me.

  You are saying that that person gets no sympathy from you. You are totally
missing the point. The point is that the police and the service providers
are breaking the law by performing illegal censorship. It doesn't matter
who is the victim of this illegal censorship and what he has done. That's
not the point at all.

> > I don't think he is. Warp has a valid point. Calling a site Childporn may 
> > be in
> > very bad taste and Not Too Bright but it is not illegal in itself. IMO and 
> > my
> > country (at this moment in time).

> No he doesn't have a valid point, there is a totally logical reason why 
> childporn.info should be blocked.  If you can't see why then I guess there's 
> no point in discussing it further.

  The word "childporn" is not illegal. By blacklisting the site they are
saying that the site contains something illegal.

  That's not logical. Given that the site is owned by a Finnish citizen
and is located in Finland, if it contained anything illegal wouldn't the
more logical step be to make him to shut down the site and press charges?
The police is completely entitled to do so *if the site is illegal*.

  However, the police is not doing that. Why? Because the site is not
illegal. By not pressing charges nor demanding the closure of the site,
the police is effectively saying that the site is not illegal.

  Thus blacklisting a legal site is not logical, rational and, most
importantly, it's against the law.
  The police has no authority to blacklist a legal site. Service providers
have no authority to censor a legal site. Doing so is against the Finnish
constitution and other laws. Yet they are doing so with impunity.

  So no, I can't see why there would be any logical reason to do so.
It's completely illogical and contradictory. (As I said, it's contradictory
because the proper step to handle an illegal website would be to press
charges, yet they are not doing so.)

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                                                          - Warp

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