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Finnish thought police censors site about censorship!
From: "Markus Jansson" <markus.jansson () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:22:18 +0200
I usually dont make this kind of politically motivated posts here, but this is just waaaaaay too terrible to be ignored. I hope mods agree on this. http://www.poliisi.fi/poliisi/krp/home.nsf/pages/indexeng]Finnish Thought Police[/url] has now used dirty tactics to silence a website used to distribute information and discussion about the recent law about censorship. The laws is sayed to be used to censor child porn websites located outside Finland off the ISP customers. If the page does not contain child porn or is located in Finland, this law should not be applied at all. The situation is a bit same as it was a while back, when Swedish authorities used the same laws and same "blacklists" to censor access to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay]Pirate Bay[/url]. Again, without any proof that there is or has been child porn there. Now, the same tactic is [url=http://www.insideonlinevideo.com/2007/07/06/swedish-police-censors-pirate-bay/]apparently soon be used again[/url] to kill the Pirate Bay off the net forever. However, there is a HUGE difference here. 1) Laws specifically demand that site must be outside Finland to be censored. http://lapsiporno.info is not, its located in Finland. 2) Laws specifically demand that site must host child porn to be censored. http://lapsiporno.info does not contain any child porn. 3) The attack is not motivated by RIAA or similiar industry to kill of P2P. The attack is purely motivated to kill of discussion and information sharing about this censorship. http://lapsiporno.info is the only site dedicated to this issue. This attack is direct attack against freedom of speech by police of Finland. 4) The "blacklist" used to censor sites off the net doesnt really even contain "child porn" sites. I personally checked the lists about 45 minutes, visiting dozens of pages (via Tor-network) and did not see a SINGLE child porn image or movie etc. Its total bullshit and censorship of legitimate sites. This is the level of freedom of speech here in Finland. Im very, very dissapointed and shamed to be a Finn. And this isnt over, they are going to expand this censorship to block access to internet gambling, soon "hate speech" etc. etc. 1984 is here today. Luckily the site is already mirrored in several places (and if needed, I will get them dozen or so more mirrors, I couldnt care less what happens then). Also, it has raised little critics about this law and police actions. Unfortunally, this issue hasnt been discussed much outside Finland. Hopefully it is now. More info in english http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Finnish_internet_censorship_critic_blacklisted And in finnish http://markusjansson.blogspot.com/2008/02/ajatuspoliisi-sensuroi-netist-sensuuria.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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