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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. Re:Questionable content? by KGIII · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No? I think other cultures have different views than my own and I respect their views even though I don't agree with them. I think it is high time we stop trying to force our ethics on other people/cultures. This whole thing of "basic human rights" is just that, is it one side pushing their moral values onto a society that has different morals.

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    "So long and thanks for all the fish."