What if censorship is in the router?
10 Things You Might Not Know About Censorware
This is a good article about censorware which sums up the main issues very nicely by Seth Finkelstein.
1. Censorware isn’t just for kids
2. Programmers have been sued for publishing reverse-engineering of censorware
3. Censorware often blacklists language translation sites, as a LOOPHOLE
4. Censorware often blacklists the Google cache
5. Censorware research has been one of the few successful DMCA exemptions
6. Legal arguments over the effectiveness of censorware were the reason for the subpoena for data from Google and other search engines
7. If censorware works for parents to control children in the US, it’ll work for governments to control citizens in e.g. China. Contrariwise, if censorware can’t work for governments to control citizens in e.g. China, it can’t work for parents to control children in the US.
8. Nobody wants the “.XXX domain”, except people trying to make money from it.
9. Nobody wants a kids-only domain, except politicians
10. Censorware sex blacklists are overall very boring
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