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W3C.org Briefly Censored In Finland

Posted by timothy on from the well-they-do-inspire-impure-thoughts dept.

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.

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  1. Straightening out some facts by maraz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Not all ISPs use DNS-based filtering - for example the aforementioned DNA Finland, which uses proxy-based filtering, which in turn is a lot more difficult to bypass.

    2) W3C is, AFAIK, still being blocked by MPY.

    3) On the first version of the list, less than 1% of the sites were child pornography. Coincidently, a lot of the rest were gay porn.

    This is, of course, not at all related to the general opinion on gay people in Finland - in fact, we've already gone half a century without a single forced castration of a gay man!

    Boy, does my country make me proud or what.