Thursday, May 13, 2010

IFPI’s child porn strategy

Start with child porn, which everybody agrees is revolting, and find some politicians who want to appear like they are doing something. Never mind that the blocking as such is ridiculously easy to circumvent in less than 10 seconds. The purpose at this stage is only to get the politicians and the general public to accept the principle that censorship in the form of ”filters” is okay. Once that principle has been established, it is easy to extend it to other areas, such as illegal file sharing. And once censorship of the Internet has been accepted in principle, they can start looking at ways to make it more technically difficult to circumvent.


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An article espousing what I think they're up to. Starts with child abuse material because no-one could defend it, then it moves onto other censorship. They want us under control and I don't want to be under their control.

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