Music Industry spokeman, "Child pornography is great."

[Iason Ouabache]

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/28/music-industry-spoke.html

A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:

"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites".
The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others...

"One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.

[Remington]

Think of the children!




....mmm, children....




Seriously though, that's surprisingly... blatant. Everyone knew that that was what they were planning to do, but I'm surprised they've come out and actually said it.

[Doktor Howl]

Wow.   

[Hoser McRhizzy]

I kind of love that he admitted it.  Filter opponents are starving for emotionally-laden ammo to counter, or better, circumnavigate the single-issue rhetorical politics of !"Pedo Virus Deviant Net"!  Telling people how filters don't work, how they're abused, etc has been pretty useless as far as legislation goes.  That dude's brand of crowing honesty helps.

Thanks for the link.

Long (and written in 2006), but some here might enjoy it.
Nart Villeneuve.  The Filtering Matrix: integrated mechanisms of information control and the demarcation of borders in cyberspace.  First Monday.  11(1).  http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1307/1227

[BadBeast]

That's a bit like banning all 70's Glam Rock, simply because of Gary Glitter!
Some Glam Rock had absolutely nothing to do with kiddy fiddlers at all. All of them would get tarred by the same brush, just because of one seedy old wrongcock.

Mind you, if it meant there would be no more Glam Rock played, (usually around Christmas) I could possibly roll with it.

[Requia ☣]

It happens anyway, look at the New York attacks on usenet.