There is an important story today about plans to block access to hundreds of child pornography sites on a national scale. There is an interesting discussion happening at Michael Geist’s blog:
Michael Geist – Project Cleanfeed Canada
[One side] I do think that blocking hundreds of child porn sites will provide some measure of protection for the overwhelming majority of the population who are not seeking to access such content yet may inadvertently come across it. That is a clear societal harm and this has the potential to help address it.
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[Another side] It seems that the use-case here is quite muddled. Is this really about stopping people from *inadvertently* seeing bad content? That’s a pretty narrow goal for such a sweeping program. Is this a real social ill? Does it really happen all that often in the course of web-browsing?