The Shortest Internet Censorship Debate Ever

rysiek writes "When a politician starts talking about defending the innocence of children, there's bound to be a great policy initiative ahead. That's how British PM David Cameron introduced the British porn block. That's also how the Polish Minister of Justice started his remarks yesterday morning on how good an idea it is and that it should be introduced in Poland. This started the shortest Internet censorship debate ever, as in the evening of the same day the Polish Prime Minister and the Minister of Administration and Digitization denounced any such ideas: 'We shall not block access to legal content regardless of whether or not it appeases us aesthetically or ethically.' There had been several full-blown Internet censorship debates in Poland during the last four years. Apparently the arguments against it were not lost on at least some of Polish politicians."

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Either something is legal or it isn't. As idiotic and possibly dangerous as porn is (Ariel Castro, the Cleveland basement kidnapper, recently admitted to an "addiction to porn", whatever that is) censorship just covers up societal problems and redirects the issue so that politicians can point to it and say they're doing something about it. Good on these Pollack ministers for doing the right thing.