Instead, users see a message saying the sites have been blocked because of anti-child-pornography laws.
Although this is likely done out of incompetence rather than malice, this is how they erode freedom. They pick one thing that the large majority of people are generally against, find one instance of it on a public website, and use that to justify censorship of the entire platform. This happened with reddit in Russia, and it almost became widespread with SOPA/PIPA in the US.
Jacob Applebaum: "The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and The War on Some Drugs." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4848174
In 2009 the UK made illegal drawings of fictional characters that "predominantly convey" the impression that they are younger than 18. I've heard no complaints about it, either people people seem to be fine with making things illegal so long as they're disgusting (i.e people who don't care about their freedom at all), or because people don't know about it.
Just as you said - they come after the 'disgusting' things first. However I think that it should be a serious consideration as to whether a government is going to toe the line to make illegal drawings.
The book 'Snow Crash', which popularized the term 'avatar', could be considered illegal in many jurisdictions because it includes a sex scene between a minor and an adult.
Ah, the classic fascist escalation. They already came for the drug dealers, but many did not speak up, for they were not drug dealers, nor did they want to be labeled as such or targeted by death squads. Then they came for the wankers, but indeed many still did not speak up, for they were not wankers, nor did they want to be labeled as such nor targeted by death squads.
There are only two logical questions to this whole affair: which groups are next, and when it all stops, who will be left?
beardog|9 years ago
Edit: reddit is unblocked in Russia but it was blocked for a time: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3grpdf/tifu_by_gettin...
d0mine|9 years ago
droithomme|9 years ago
Is reddit really blocked in Russia? It seems there are many Russian posters there, particularly in t_d...
ue_|9 years ago
Just as you said - they come after the 'disgusting' things first. However I think that it should be a serious consideration as to whether a government is going to toe the line to make illegal drawings.
abandonliberty|9 years ago
kenshaw|9 years ago
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rm_-rf_slash|9 years ago
There are only two logical questions to this whole affair: which groups are next, and when it all stops, who will be left?
thraway2016|9 years ago
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