Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com> writes:
* Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com) wrote:
This isnt new - there have been proposals elsewhere for a resolver based blacklist of child porn sites.
Swedish ISPs are required to enforce a DNS blacklist for childporn, perhaps also other European countries.
Yes, this has alrady spread to a number of European countries: http://circamp.eu/
And once you get these things in place you never know where it will end...
Unfortunately, yes. We already have a pretty ugly example of that: Telenor (Norwegian ISP) was sued by the music and film industry with a demand that Telenor should block all access to The Pirate Bay. The suggested method was abusing this DNS filter to block access to a number of Pirate Bay domains. Luckily the Norwegian court system do sometimes work: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS401576177920091106 But history usually repeats itself, so I assume this idea will come up again. And again. And again. Bjørn