Comments on: Mobile Operators teaming up against child abuse http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/16/mobile-operators-teaming-up-against-child-abuse.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:37:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Tommi Vilkamo http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/16/mobile-operators-teaming-up-against-child-abuse.html/comment-page-1/#comment-161238 Tommi Vilkamo Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:45:17 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/16/mobile-operators-teaming-up-against-child-abuse.html#comment-161238 Not talking about this particular initiative, but whenever I hear a non-related political or business party taking initiative against child sexual abuse, I have learned to hear the alarm bells. The monitoring/censorship system ends up too easily being used for something completely different (wider censorship or surveillance), while being extremely ineffective for the actual thing (preventing child abuse). For example, Finland has just implemented a censorship list for child porn, but already now, lots of other websites have ended up being blocked - including a small site who righteously criticized the system and the secret blacklist: http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/wiki/Main_blogentry_130208_1 It's a slippery slope. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Not talking about this particular initiative, but whenever I hear a non-related political or business party taking initiative against child sexual abuse, I have learned to hear the alarm bells. The monitoring/censorship system ends up too easily being used for something completely different (wider censorship or surveillance), while being extremely ineffective for the actual thing (preventing child abuse).

For example, Finland has just implemented a censorship list for child porn, but already now, lots of other websites have ended up being blocked – including a small site who righteously criticized the system and the secret blacklist:
http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/wiki/Main_blogentry_130208_1

It’s a slippery slope. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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