[Zenst]

In this form I totally agree. Reason being that by haveing a block at the web server level in essence places the blocking to be done by the hosting site and blocking based upon location and content. This places the onus of censorship upon the host, which they can already code for if they want.

Not sure placeing the onus of censorship into the hands of the host and not the goverment with there IP/DNS blocks or however they impose such blocks (China has a nice firewall for outside China sites and I dare to think of how they block a website inside China though can bet it is just as effective).

That all said the posiblility to volantarly do the blocking in a way that the powers that be will accept and with that allow there country's owners to see parts of yoru site that are legal and not the illegal parts for them. Well that would possibily have uses and opens your site up still instead of a blanket ban.

  Piratebay has legal torrents, yet they are blocked as some form of descrimnation blanket ban.  So it does have it's possibilities, albiet a dangerous path that should not be tread lightly.