This is probably how censorship started everywhere in the world, like China; First, you tell your citizens that you are going to protected them for some nasty stuff that will hurt them, like Child Porn. Nobody can argue against getting rid of Child Porn!

Then, you point out that the list of websites you are going to protect us from needs to be kept a secret, after all, if everyone knew where to find the list, they could take steps to get to those sites, and you would in fact be facilitating this illegal behaviour, right? Sure, we say, go ahead and keep the list a secret.

But here’s the problem; Once the list is a secret, nobody knows what else you have put on the list. Now you have a secret censorship tool which you can use to silence anyone you like, not just the porno peddlers.

But what really bugs me about this is the fact that our government seems to think that censorship is the solution to child porn. How about finding and prosecuting the people involved, and shutting down their sites? Shouldn’t that be the solution? How is letting them continue to operate and simply blocking access to their sites at our borders helping?

It’s not.

If you haven’t already, sign the petition on our home page to help stop this madness before it starts stuffing up our internet and our country!