Europe makes moves toward Internet censorship

EUROPE MAKES MOVES TOWARD INTERNET CENSORSHIP
[SOURCE: InfoWorld, AUTHOR: Mikael Ricknäs]
A debate over the use of Internet filtering is heating up in Europe. Privacy advocates and carriers are going head to head with authorities. In Finland, programmer Matti Nikki is under investigation for publishing a secret list of domains that authorities had allegedly censored in an effort to stop the spread of child pornography. Nikki published his list to prove the system was being abused, and was himself censored as a result. The Finnish Chancellor of Justice has received a complaint about police handling of the matter. The authorities distribute their list to the country's 20 largest ISPs, which then block access to the sites. The rest of Finland's 200 ISPs haven't implemented the technology, so protection is far from complete. The problem with filtering is that it is a very blunt tool, according to Swedish Internet activist Oscar Swartz.
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