The definition of child pornography varies by jurisdiction. Many popular sites such as 4chan allow material that would be filtered as child porn in the UK (i.e., drawings and text). Google and Bing are already censoring this stuff in their search engine globally despite its legality in the US. Also, any list of child porn sites would have to be curated by the government and kept secret for obvious reasons. So we're potentially dealing with a secret blacklist of sometimes legal material.
No one is going to opt-out, either. I already feel like a criminal opting-out of the huge "invalid SSL certificate" warnings, let alone something billed as a child porn filter. And if we're going to filter "illegal" websites, child porn is just the start. Why not terrorist sites? Why not piracy? Almost every country with a child porn filter has followed the same path. On Thursday, December 11, 2014 3:14:38 PM UTC-4, Majken Connor wrote: > I am totally not informed on this, so please keep that in mind. > > We already include a similar form of censorship in the browser with our > security settings around malicious sites. I can imagine that a feature that > works the same way would be the way to go if this were in fact in the > works. > > a) Most users would rather not see child porn (especially since it's > illegal), so providing warnings the same way we do for malicious sites > would be useful to many users > b) You still have the option to continue to a malicious site > c) You can turn the feature off > > So I will keep an open mind, but I would also definitely like to hear the > context behind these statements. > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Kate Black <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The prime minister of the UK just said that Mozilla is considering > > implementing built-in Internet filters in Firefox. > > > > "Microsoft, Google and Mozilla were "working together to look at" having > > "built-in restrictions to block access" to child abuse material - Mr > > Cameron said this would be a "game changer"" > > http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30426164 > > > > "Microsoft, Google and Mozilla will also announce plans to directly block > > people from accessing websites which are hosting child pornography from > > Internet browsers." > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11286683/Paedophiles-have-nowhere-to-hide-as-spies-and-police-target-dark-web.html > > > > If this is a lie, which I seriously hope, Mozilla needs to issue a > > statement immediately denying that they would even consider building > > censorship lists into their browser. Surely a company "dedicated to an open > > Internet" cannot ignore this kind of accusation from the leader of a > > country. > > _______________________________________________ > > governance mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
