06-11-2008, 02:38 PM
How to get past the First Amendment? Don't make a law, come to a private agreement. Let an NGO decide what you can access. Its for the children, so it must be right, right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/nyregi....html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This blog entry is on point.
I would suggest much more forcefully, efforts by ISPs to cut off access to any particular class of content may make it more difficult for "casual" searchers to access such sites, but will likely be largely ineffective against anyone with the will to work a bit harder to find such material -- and that's not even taking into account private, encrypted distribution networks.
In practice, of course -- as I've written many times -- effective censorship of the Internet is impossible. You can make access more difficult or more of a hassle, but in the end censorship efforts -- even for seemingly laudable goals -- will drive the materials of interest ever deeper underground into forms that make them even more difficult to track. That's just the way it is, like it or not.
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000389.html
Will the ISP's lose their common carrier status?
Thin end of the censorship wedge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/nyregi....html?_r=1&oref=slogin
This blog entry is on point.
I would suggest much more forcefully, efforts by ISPs to cut off access to any particular class of content may make it more difficult for "casual" searchers to access such sites, but will likely be largely ineffective against anyone with the will to work a bit harder to find such material -- and that's not even taking into account private, encrypted distribution networks.
In practice, of course -- as I've written many times -- effective censorship of the Internet is impossible. You can make access more difficult or more of a hassle, but in the end censorship efforts -- even for seemingly laudable goals -- will drive the materials of interest ever deeper underground into forms that make them even more difficult to track. That's just the way it is, like it or not.
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000389.html
Will the ISP's lose their common carrier status?
Thin end of the censorship wedge.