A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia

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    31 March 2009

    It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. If you want to reduce citizens' exposure to dangerous and illegal activities online, why not gather up all the URLs for sites that promote such acts — child pornography, extreme violence, weaponmaking and so on — and have Internet service providers (ISPs) simply block them? Wouldn't that make the Internet safer for families and children?