"Plans like these, worthy though they may appear, do not, to me, seem
likely to be in any way effective – the real ‘bad guys’ will find ways
around them, the material will still exist, will keep being created, and
we’ll pretend to have solved the problem – and at the same time put in a
structure to allow censorship, create a deeply vulnerable database of
‘untrustworthy people’, and potentially alienate many of the most
important companies on the internet. I’m not convinced it’s a good idea.
To say the least."
Paul Bernal, Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law at the University of East Anglia Law School, on David Cameron's plans to clamp down on child porn. For more on how extraordinarily naive the plans are, see here and here.
(Thanks to Tim for the link.)
Saturday, July 27, 2013
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