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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:Grammar Nazi nitpicking by Yetihehe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you probably from grammar salvation army?

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  2. Re:Grammar Nazi nitpicking by electrictroy · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>>URL was mistakenly entered into the Federal Police's censor database.

    Someday a new president will rise-up in Finland, and this new president will start adding W3C.org, constitution.org, freespeech.com, and other legitimate websites. And it won't be a mistake.

    Government should NEVER be allowed to censor anything, because some future leader might abuse the censorship to limit liberty.

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