...is what most free speech proponents say until they discover child pornography, and then say "well, impossible for anything except child pornography", and then they discover...
That is not a problem to solve by internet blocking. That's a problem to be solved by tracking down the sources and arresting them so they can't make more. Blocking doesn't stop the underlying abuse. And blocking is too dangerous of a capability to exist, because it can and will be abused.
I would like it to be impossible to selectively block portions of the Internet. I would like it to not be an option available to anyone.
...is what most free speech proponents say until they discover child pornography, and then say "well, impossible for anything except child pornography", and then they discover...
That is not a problem to solve by internet blocking. That's a problem to be solved by tracking down the sources and arresting them so they can't make more. Blocking doesn't stop the underlying abuse. And blocking is too dangerous of a capability to exist, because it can and will be abused.
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