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No. See above. There must be human verification of the nature of the material. This cannot legally be done by civilians.
Not only that. In the legal system of any democratic country, the final decision what's legal and what's not is and must be up to the courts, not up to any civilian. A system in which the police or some or other semi-private committee decides what will be censored and that then gets censored automatically and definitely, without any after-the-fact control and without any possibility of reversal, is not just a step down the slippery slope. It's a headlong jump into totalitarianism. The least that should be required for anyone to censor anything is a preliminary court order; not "a list published by the police". For the very same reasons the cops need warrants before searching houses, they should need warrants before they can cause information to be censored.
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