Finnish Censorship Expanding

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.

Comments

Windows tips

[calebt3]

Windows tips in Thai That may or may not be a bad thing depending on whether the tip was get rid of it.

An extrovert Finn

[superash]

Well, nobody in finland will protest as there is an old joke about extrovert Finns - "How do you identify an extrovert Finn? -- When he looks at your feet when talking to you instead of looking at his own" :)

Finish with the censorship already

[Anonymous Coward]

Enough is enough.

Re:What happens when lists go wrong

[nguy]

I work for a University, and we have a commercial web-filter to try to keep [...] time-wasting material off people's machines and out of labs.

It can't be working very well if you manage to connect to Slashdot :-)

Norway!

[OldManAndTheC]

Swede Jesus, you perverts disgust me!

Re:Final Solution: Kill the Children

[lgw]

No, no. You must kill all the adults. After all, no measure is too harsh if it protects the children. That's clearly inadequate. What about those children who themselves produce CP with no adult asistance - the scourge must be eradicated!

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.