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by chimeracoder
4467 days ago
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> most of the time the content is available elsewhere, As is often the case with censorship, what happens "most of the time" is not the concern - it's the rest. The DMCA isn't exclusively a tool of censorship, but no effective tool of censorship is. For it to survive as an effective tool, it has to provide some value in other ways. |
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There are laws and tools built exclusively to censor web content all around the world. That's what OP is referring to as "hard, plain sight censorship." How are tools & laws like the ones used by N. Korea, Iran, and a variety of other autocratic regimes[1] not "effective tools"? What value does something like China's "Great Firewall"[2] provide other than censorship?
Seems to be a big difference between those and the DMCA.
[1] http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/what-next...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project