Has Finland put W3.org on anti-porn list?
p2pnet news view P2P:- Did you know W3.org, the World Wide Web consortium, was in fact a porn site?
No? We didn’t either.
But apparently, that’s what the Finnish police believe.
Within the last 24 hours, emails lordpake from Finland, the national cops added W3.org to their, “not public child-pornography blocklist”.
“I just have some issues with police blocking access to random places, under the pretence of child protection, by using means that do not stand against public scrutiny =),” he says.
This wouldn’t be the first time.
In February, Sirja told p2pnet Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation had launched a criminal investigation, “into the online activities of software expert and activist Matti Nikki who worries, ‘Are they are suspecting me of aiding in distribution of child porn’?”
It happened because “The pages, maintained by Matti Nikki, contained hundreds of links to sites that are on the NBI list,” as Utkik posts on Piratpartiet, we said.
Could it be something of a similar nature has happened here as well?
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – Finland cops deny censorship charge, February 18, 2008
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September 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Links at W3.org tend to be be links to documents at the sites, pointers into particular entries in the specifications, and links to other standards bodies and consortia and their documents. If they can find a link to porn at w3.org I would be amazed.
To me this sounds like a case of terminal cranial/rectal insertion syndrome combined with terminal cluelessness.
SRG
September 27th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
You have no idea.
Basically, we have some faceless, anonymous bureaucrat(s) somewhere within the National Bureau of Investigations (KRP) who decides what is blocked and what not. There is no oversight whatsover! No one really knows what they blocking. Shouldn’t the police be under civilian supervision in a free society?
As far as I have understood the current system relies on blocking entire domains, instead of just individual suspect URLs. And as this case demonstrates, apparently they do not investigate much, or then their Information Technology skills are seriously lacking (next question would be why people who don’t know their stuff are given this kind of power?). Nothing else can explain blocking W3C. Even if it was just for short time …