Welcome to 1984…?
This kind of stuff just scares the shit out of me. I’m not talking about a so-called “Pirate Bay killer”, I’d rather keep the Pirate Bays of the world around as well, but removing them isn’t in any way life threatening, I still could easily do without. It’s this extreme internet censoring bullshit that scares me, as the people at TorrentFreak said, it turns the internet into a virtual police state.
When I first read this (two hours ago or so) I really hoped it was fake, but quite a few major sites seem to have picked it up. I’m seriously more worried about this sort of censoring adding to the (already high in some countries) police state potential than a possible nuclear war.
Also, read this China’s All-Seeing-Eye article about how China has already build it’s own high-tech police state prototype. It’s worth your time.
May 26, 2008 at 10:37 pm
[...] don’t think I currently have any other cool links, but I could suggest you to read this on my other blog. It’s about a Anti-Piracy proposal that could turn the internet in a virtual [...]