I find this blog post (found randomly on the front page!) very interesting. It’s about censorship on the internet, in particular a plan to block certain websites if you’re accessing the net in Canada. The blog is here and I recommend reading it, though it is quite subjective and anti-censorship.
The comments after it are also read-worthy because they offer differing opinions but I got the impression that the general consensus was that censorship = bad. In my humble, mostly misinformed, opinion I think that the term “internet censorship” is a bit of an oxymoron; the very thing that draws me to the internet is the fact that I can find and readabout anything I want. If a website is breaking laws in it’s country it should be shut down and the owners should be prosecuted, they shouldn’t just block it cos I bet there’s people who can find their way round systems like that.
I think a mostly agree with this comment that was left on that blog:
Any form of censorship other than self-censorship is contrary to the very foundation of freedom. Keep your hands off my Internet connection.
If something is on the internet, I want to be able to see it EVEN if I don’t want to see it. In other words, I’m pro arresting web paedophiles, but anti internet censorship.
