Finnish Censorship Expanding 196
Thomas Nybergh lets us know about the secret list maintained by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, containing an estimated 1,700 foreign "child pornography'" sites. These are mostly in the US and the EU, and certainly not all of them contain child porn or even links to it. Finnish ISPs are required by law to block access to sites on the list, according to The Register. Finland's EFF has information about the block list, which reportedly includes a musical instrument store, a doll store, and a site of Windows tips in Thai. Recently added to the list — which by law should contain only child pornography sites — is the text-only site of a Finnish free-speech advocate who criticizes the censorship law. Evading the ISPs' block is trivial, of course.
Windows tips (Score:3, Funny)
An extrovert Finn (Score:5, Funny)
Finish with the censorship already (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What happens when lists go wrong (Score:5, Funny)
It can't be working very well if you manage to connect to Slashdot
Norway! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Final Solution: Kill the Children (Score:3, Funny)
I wish I were making that up, but at least here in the States there have been a couple of cases of teens with webcams being arrested, tried as adults for producing CP, and convicted. Clearly logic plays no part in law.