Micha
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Source: The Danish magazine Computerworld.
A list of 3,863 sites that were previously blocked by the Danish police to contain child pornography was published on the Wikileaks site in 2008. With the publication of the Danish child-list Wikileaks would focus on what happens when a democracy like the Danish operates with a so-called secret censorship system, without citizens have access to the websites that are blocked.
"When a secret censorship system is established for pornographic content, the same system can quickly evolve to also cover other content - including political material," says Wikileaks.”
The Danish Police IT Center (Nitec), have the responsibility for browsing suspicious websites for child pornography and is the unit, who draws up the list of blocked domains. The list will be handed over to telecom companies, which then block the Danish 'access to websites with child pornography.
"The filter is not made for ideological reasons. It is solely set up to block child pornography. The ideological debate that the filter could potentially contain other material has nothing to do with the filter," says the Chief of Nitec, Soren Thomassen,
"There is no secrecy over the list and there are a many people who can see the domain names," he notes.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list, _Feb_2008
In 2009 the German police conducted a raid on the controversial Wikileaks website, which had published several thousand domains that are closed in several countries because of the suspected distribution of child pornographic content.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Police_raid_home_of_Wikileaks.de_domain_owner_over_censorship_lists
The people behind wikileaks.org calls the raid a part of a "social hysteria around child pornography"
/ / Micha
A list of 3,863 sites that were previously blocked by the Danish police to contain child pornography was published on the Wikileaks site in 2008. With the publication of the Danish child-list Wikileaks would focus on what happens when a democracy like the Danish operates with a so-called secret censorship system, without citizens have access to the websites that are blocked.
"When a secret censorship system is established for pornographic content, the same system can quickly evolve to also cover other content - including political material," says Wikileaks.”
The Danish Police IT Center (Nitec), have the responsibility for browsing suspicious websites for child pornography and is the unit, who draws up the list of blocked domains. The list will be handed over to telecom companies, which then block the Danish 'access to websites with child pornography.
"The filter is not made for ideological reasons. It is solely set up to block child pornography. The ideological debate that the filter could potentially contain other material has nothing to do with the filter," says the Chief of Nitec, Soren Thomassen,
"There is no secrecy over the list and there are a many people who can see the domain names," he notes.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list, _Feb_2008
In 2009 the German police conducted a raid on the controversial Wikileaks website, which had published several thousand domains that are closed in several countries because of the suspected distribution of child pornographic content.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Police_raid_home_of_Wikileaks.de_domain_owner_over_censorship_lists
The people behind wikileaks.org calls the raid a part of a "social hysteria around child pornography"
/ / Micha