moschopsPremium
join:2003-12-20
Oakland, CA | reply to Asmodeus
Re: "Pirated content" filtering I think you missed the "it is only a mater of time before" part.
Regardless you seem to have forgotten there is already plenty of content deemed illegal - child porn would be one example, and the story is about another kind - copyright infringing content.
The question is would networks dare to start preemptively filtering content? I think the original story makes this obvious - yes.
But once you cite "national security" during a national crisis scenario virtually anything can be made illegal and get passed into law as Patriot I and II have proved. It can then take years for the Supreme Court to go back and overule such things as unconstitutional.
We may laugh about the Great China Firewall and how restricted the Chinese are, but it is clear that we are now laying the foundations for our very own wall - one packet filter at a time.
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