Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   (What is even stranger, and scary, about the Finnish internet censorship
> > is that not only is the exact list a secret which ISP's must not divulge,
> > but the exact authority or authorities who decide what goes into the list
> > is also a secret. Nobody outside the government and the police force knows
> > who is making the decisions.)

> They're starting to talk about the same thing for the USA.

> Altho the whole idea that the list is secret or that the people figuring out 
> what goes on the list is secret smacks of asking for corruption right there. 
> I can't imagine that there's a good reason for keeping the list secret.

  The major problem with the whole internet censorship thing is that it
*really* can end up being a slippery slope, because once it's in place,
the threshold to add more things to the censorship list gets significantly
lowered.

  It starts with child porn. Some time after they will probably also start
censoring other trendy scapegoats such as racism and terrorism-related
sites. Once you start censoring racism, the slope gets very easily very
slippery. They'll start adding more and more things that are considered
"racist", such as criticism of (major) religions.

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                                                          - Warp

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