Finland, freedom, censorship
According to recent Helsingin Sanomat poll, 73% percent of Finns aged 55-64 years wanted to "control" the Internet, removing freedom of speech as necessary, in the light of the recent school shootings.
I've got very little to say to them, except:
"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin
Every knee-jerk reaction like this only fights the symptoms, not the causes of problems our society is facing. And at the same time, little by little, we erode away the values European culture has been built on.
Europe got ahead by applying new ways of thinking during the Age of Enlightenment. Now, facing global competition, is it really a good time to become like China?
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On Finnish Internet censorship
Since late 2006 Finland has been quietly enacting its own form of Internet censorship, a practice more typically connected with various oppressive regimes, and not with a democratic country. The Finnish variation is a DNS blocking system ostensibly targeted at child porn. The system is however very dubiously implemented using secret block lists maintained by the police, and it blocks...
Black box voting comes to Finland
According to the Finnish Ministry of Justice, the new electronic voting system that will be used in next municipal elections is a proprietary system. This means that Finland enters the era of Black Box Voting where the algorithms used for counting votes are secret and there is no paper trail. Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) writes: "Companies may have business secrets,...