Yep, now officials have confirmed that they will censor Pirate Bay off the net. They have already added it to "black list" of "child porn" and ISP will update their filters to include it in just few days... Then we wont be able to reach Pirate Bay anymore.
This is what they call free speech & free internet & democracy. Now the censorship has started. Its only a question what is to be censored next and who decides that. The road that we have taken is terrible. Child porn is terrible, but violating free speech with censorship is much more terrible. Especially as in this case, this has nothing to do with child porn whatsoever. Its just pure censorship. Atleast we can complain to our ISP:s and demand compensations or lifting of the ban. The day our goverment would do something like this is the day I would grap a gun and use it to protect my (and other peoples) freedom. Yes, go ahead and tell Suojelupoliisi that. EVVK. Original news (finnish): http://www.digitoday.fi/page.php?page_id=14&news_id=200716701 My comments (finnish): http://markusjansson.blogspot.com/2007/07/pirate-bay-sensuroidaan-netist-lhipivin.html -- My computer security & privacy related homepage http://www.markusjansson.net Use HushTools or GnuPG/PGP to encrypt any email before sending it to me to protect our privacy. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/