Wednesday, 27. February 2008
Topic: Online-Fahndung - on February 27, 2008 at 12:45:00 PM CET
Status of the world's censorware
Here's a page listing status of the invisible systems used by governments and ISPs around the world to "block child pornography." The lists of "child porn" are generally secretly compiled and held, and the blocks often simply return a timeout or 404 error, so it's virtually impossible to determine whether a given page is being filtered by the system. The potential for abuse is incredible, since pages that get added to the list effectively disappear and there's practically no way to appeal the censors' decision (what's more, if you do appeal and lose, you're branded a pedophile).
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