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Anti-Censorship Protest in Finland
Posted by yassin on 4 March, 2008 - 23:43 in
This is the newscast by Nelosen Uutiset about the Internet censorship demonstration held in Helsinki, Finland, at March 4th, 2008.
The protesters complain about the censorship implemented by the police, as it does absolutely nothing to help the children victims who are instead being used as dubious political levers.
Other problems include:
- The censorship is in violation of the constitutional law of Finland
- The censorship "flushes the child with the dish water", i.e. for every alleged child porn page it blocks thousands of completely unrelated pages and sites happening to share the same DNS address
- Children are not likely to stumble across child pornography. Adult pornography is prevalent, but this law does not address that.
- The censorship system does not stop those who actually _intend_ to watch child pornography. It is trivial to circumvent.
- The censorship does not help the actual children who are being used by porn industry. It only addresses the child _audience_ who are not likely to stumble upon those pictures anyway, and are not in need of "protection" by censorship.
- Sites are being blocked without chance of being heard and tried. No jury, no trial.
- No means are provided to inform site authors that their site is being blocked.
- No means are provided to let a site be unblocked.
- If you're wrongly blocked and you lose revenue / reputation because of that, no compensation whatsoever is given when/if you're unblocked. You may be publicly marked as a child pornography distributor, even if you're completely innocent, and nobody is going to apologize to you.
- Real child pornography distributors (i.e. criminals) are not affected either; they switch & register new domains all the time, and such a filter cannot keep up to date.
- Not to mention that web is not the only media in Internet used to transfer illegal material. But unfortunately, for the law makers, web = Microsoft Internet Explorer. And for the police, "Google is a browser, not a site". (Actual quote)
- Once censorship exists, different agencies are eager to lobby the use of the censorship for their own purposes. For example, music industries would want The Pirate Bay censored. Scientologists would want opponents of Scientology to be censored. And so on. This method is not compatible with the concept of "unconditional freedom of communication" guaranteed by the Finnish constitution.
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