so, it happened again. Each application of the law becomes over time the ability to censor websites, it always gets applied too broadly, beyond the prescribed original scope, and whenever someone states that the same application the law used their powers of censorship to cover negligence in their own transgressions.
censorship is a very controversial topic in many parliaments. The copyright industry has long pushed for websites containing child abuse images being censored the net at the ISP level, with the ulterior motive that such censorship regime could be extended to also include websites that the copyright industry does not like, in general. (Yes, really.)
The imagery of child abuse is one of the few things that provoke censorship net actually occurs, which can be observed in country after country. And every time this censorship was in place, the list of censored websites has himself been declared secret (as it is argued, it would otherwise be an unlawful directory). Then, inevitably, he fled, and appears to have barely any illegal material at all about it (low percent to single digits), but tons and tons and tons of material completely legal that was censored illegally for years without control or transparency.
The next step in the application of the law is as predictable as the movement of a grandfather clock: add exposure for their own negligence and crimes against freedom of expression to the list censorship, censorship actually the freedom of the press exposing abuse of power. What has happened in many countries:
In Finland, when Internet activist Matti Nikki exposed the list of censorship as being basically just a violation of rights, the vast majority censorship ordinary legal material, exhibition site itself was added to the list of censorship to prevent transparency in the abuse of power. The Finnish Supreme Court has recently confirmed that it was a proper movement; that censorship of abuse of censorship is okay, as long as - wait for it -. the reason is to protect children
In Sweden, a similar list - when a leak - was ridiculed publicly after he was discovered to censor, among other things, the Association of Korean producers Bonsai. (No, there is really nothing more than pretty little tree there.) Again, the law enforcement has tried to have the list - and their abuse of power neglective - censored. (The list is secret.)
And now, in Germany, the same thing again. Techdirt wrote how the German government attempts to censor the publication of the list of censored websites, and it is again the same story.
Censorship is never really the answer. Maybe it worked in the past. But if it ever did, it does not do more. One thing that has been constant throughout history, however, is that people have used and abused their own powers to maintain their own power, in particular, cover their own mistakes.
This is why it's a horrible idea to give anyone - anyone - the power to censor the Internet, which in this day and the average age of the free press, the right to meeting and freedom of expression. What you get is a first rule of censorship Club, which says that you are not talking of censorship Club.
Fortunately, VPNs and similar technologies can easily circumvent censorship where its purpose is not justified or justifiable, for example when law enforcement is trying to hide their own abuse of power.
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