Web Censorship: Porn to Politics
• Zealots, Crusaders, Pests
Even if you don’t believe in pure “freedom of speech” here’s one reason attempting to censor adult web sites is a bad idea:
From two in 2002, the number of governments filtering the net has risen to two dozen, according to Rob Faris, research director at the Berkman Center at Harvard and part of the OpenNet Initiative. Faris’s maps show that social filtering – pornography, gambling – is far more widespread than political filtering, but that the overlapping diagram of who filters what shows a lot of “mission creep”.