W3C.org Briefly Censored In Finland 115
k33l0r writes "The web site of W3C, w3.org or w3c.org, was briefly censored (Google Translation) by at least some of the local ISPs. For an unknown reason the URL was mistakenly entered into the Federal Police's censor database. Some of the Finnish ISPs use the database to filter out questionable content such as child pornography."
Finnish online activist Matti Nikki describes some of the problems with this database-based censorship.
That's no biggie... (Score:5, Funny)
In Redmond, Washington w3.org has been blacklisted for the developers of Internet Explorer for years!
Clever strategy (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously child-porn websites can't exist without protocol standards that designate how things like HTTP and HTML are to work.
The police who created this list were simply cutting off the head of the beast. Sure, there might be a little collateral damage... but won't somebody think of the children?
Anyhow, mission accomplished. You might even say it has been finnished.
Re:Clever strategy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:penis! (Score:2, Funny)
Not in Finland you're not.
Re:Clever strategy (Score:5, Funny)
[Finland censorship activated] ah, but there are still ****og transmission methods. the way i see it, eye***** are the problem...
Here's how it happened... (Score:2, Funny)
Some child pornographers are very concerned with valid HTML, and linked to their validator on their pages. As a result, it was flagged as related to child porn.
Interesting. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blacklists suck. (Score:4, Funny)
So far all I've figured out is that W3C has a lot of clout and you're apparently looking for gay porn in Finland.
Re:Clever strategy (Score:5, Funny)
"but won't somebody think of the children?"
That is precisely the situation they are trying to stop.