Censorship Gains Momentum
February 1, 2012
Yep, I told readers that filtering and censorship were here to stay. Not much to add to my earlier prognostication. Navigate to Google’s “Why Does My Blog Redirect to a Country-Specific URL?” The answer, Pilgrim, is to make it possible to block content on a country-specific basis. There are other types of filtering in action, and I don’t want to spoil your vision of free and open access by diving into this subject. I covered it in my 2005 The Google Legacy. Let’s see. That was six years ago. Slow pressure can move a freight car in the rail yard. Same in the physics of information. Do you know how hard it is to stop a freight car moved by a single person’s pushing against the many-tonned beastie? Tip. Don’t stand in front of the slow moving freight car to push it with your hands. Censorship works the same way. How does one access filtered, censored, or blocked content? Get a job higher up the food chain. Works.
Stephen E Arnold, February 2, 2012
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