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by dfine 4467 days ago
> but no effective tool of censorship is. For it to survive as an effective tool, it has to provide some value in other ways.

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