No doubt ... but there is already plenty of that going on in relation to all sorts of things. People prefer the freedom that believing a lie can bring rather than the responsibility that knowledge of the truth can require, and all that.
Regarding ISP level filtering, you've got a Keen, Supported Government on one hand, and a mostly apathetic population on the other hand (BTW, how did the protests go ?) ... so which do you think is going to win out in the long run ?
While folk can still shop til they drop, ebay the latest fad crap, watch their sports on the kingsized plasma screen, dial in pizza and teevo (or whatever it is
Time a few here started to face the fact that their precious/sacred McNet just doesn't figure in many people's lives anywhere near as precious/sacred/important as it does in their own life.
In my book (including the type that, you know, like, can be read, like ?) the flow of information, truth, falsehood, ideas, knowledge and history isn't in any way the exclusive domain of the internut, and government enforced filtering of illegal material along with a percentage of false positives just ain't going to matter in that regard.
The Web is NOT the be all and end all, and only fools would place their complete trust in it anyway. Eggs in one basket and all that.
Oh, and on the subject of false-positives, on one hand I reckon folk likely to have their sites and pages hit by such filtering will do what any of would do in similar circumstances. We would change the content of the page to make it less filterable, yes ?
Ah, but here is a winner for the "the filters will fail and should be abandoned" crew. If certain types of urls are to be blacklisted, don't you think that the kinds of folk who create such urls of questionable/blatable material will soon learn to create web pages that on the surface seem far less objectionable to the likes of google and government filters etc, and more likely to show up in normal view ?
Akin to closing down and flushing out the sewers so that they overflow and crap runs freely in the street ?
Imagine the hue and cry when it gets to the stage where someone goes to google +hotel +cheap +melbourne expecting to be shown last minute deals pages for accommodation in Melbourne, only to find that 3 of the first 12 links lead to illegal pr0n hosted who knows where ? Do you think we might here a bit of a "oooops, we didn't think this out properly" from "teh govadmin" ?
Which reminds me, how much selective filtering does the likes of google already do anyway ? :)
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