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Laukev7:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/06/06/132200.shtml?tid=153&tid=99

Don't get me wrong, I am against any forms of child abuse, but this sets a frightening precedent. How much power will the telecoms get if they can block any website they want, and by extension the governments if they can just order a telecom to censor material they don't like?

Refalm:
I'd leave my ISP if they blocked any part of the Internet. That's just plain wrong.

The Internet is an open infrastructure. If you want to stop child pornography on the Internet, just sue the bastards. The government is authorized to ask IP numbers from ISP's and webhosts. So government, next time, don't be a communist, but arrest the people who host such websites.

Aaron Ni:
The old fashioned way of hiding the problem rather than facing it, out of sight out of mind.

It's never worked.

KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by Aaron-V4.0:
The old fashioned way of hiding the problem rather than facing it, out of sight out of mind.

It's never worked.
--- End quote ---


Old fashioned? No, just western culture.

cahult:
The child molestors now, who

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