[smashing]

Sounds like a big waste of money for me. Too bad AI is so hard, and we are experimenting with a human flagging system. Unlike DMCA notices in business sector, this apparently doesn't even seem to depend have context to the significance of the transgressions, as it appears to depend on automated content collection from whatever sources they can muster.

I wish it was a big conspiracy by the EVIL GOVERNMENT. But alas, it is probably a huge waste of the taxpayers' money.

[wmeredith]

Waste can be evil as well.

[lazyjones]

Even if it is a big waste of money, it's still evil because it's presumably taxpayers' money.

That said, the EU is doing pretty much the same with INDECT. Apparently they think it's worthwhile too...