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| Why ISPs’ “Stand” Against Child Porn Is Actually Not a Stand Agains|
|   from the thinking-of-the-children-means-actually-thinking dept.  |
|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday July 18, @16:30 (The Internet) |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/18/1746222 |
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TechDirt has an insightful article on the recent push for ISPs to turn
off Usenet access under the guise of fighting child pornography.
Unfortunately, the “stand against child porn” [0]isn’t actually a stand
at all, it seems more like ignoring the issue while trying to snag some
headlines and good will. “Taking a stand against child porn wouldn’t be
overly aggressively blocking access to internet destinations that may or
may not have porn (and there’s no review over the list to make sure that
they’re actually objectionable). Taking a stand against child porn would
be hunting down those responsible for the child porn and making sure that
they’re dealt with appropriately… Also, this sets an awful precedent in
that the ISPs can point out that it’s ok for them to block
“objectionable” content where they get to define what’s objectionable
without any review.”