<story><title>Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/</url><text>Censorship online is an emotive issue.&lt;p&gt;Some people believe that all information should be free and as adults it</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>So when exactly are we going to wake up to the fact that governments in the &quot;free&quot; West have over the past two decades implemented measures with respect to freedom of information, communication and privacy that in the decades before that we&apos;ve consistently denounced as totalitarian police state tactics when it came to communist nations?&lt;p&gt;The problem is not that the police made this mistake. The problem is that they actually have the authority to do this in the first place.</text></comment>
<story><title>Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/</url><text>Censorship online is an emotive issue.&lt;p&gt;Some people believe that all information should be free and as adults it</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fluidcruft</author><text>The authorities are just going to end up developing a whitelist of high-profile sites not to block. This is unfortunate because even high-profile sites deserve to be subject to the same laws and levels of scrutiny everyone else must tolerate. Once there&apos;s a whitelist mechanism law enforcement will just be even more cavalier.</text></comment>