[ga] W3C.org Briefly Censored In Finland

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Some bad news here, but should not be unexpected.

  It's a terrible shame that the Finland police were taken
advantage, even by accident like this. But than again it can
be difficult to do content filtering for specific "Types" of content.
What's worse, now W3C has been defamed egregiously here.

  I hope this serves as a lesson for future and present considerations
for applying what I have often characterized as "Selective Censorship"
and demonstrate how easily it, using filtering technology can be used
with all good intentions, but go so wrong and damage so badly, as well
as so many.

See:
The web site of W3C, w3.org or w3c.org, was
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id=35075&tyyppi=1
briefly censored (
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tietokone.fi%2Fuutta%2Fuutinen.asp%3Fnews_id%3D35075%26tyyppi%3D1&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=fi&tl=en
Google Translation) by at least some of the local ISPs. For
an unknown reason the URL was mistakenly entered into the Federal
Police's censor database. Some of the Finnish ISPs use the database to
filter out questionable content such as child pornography." Finnish
online activist Matti Nikki describes some of the
http://lapsiporno.info/english-2008-02-15.html problems with this
database-based censorship.

Regards,

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