<p><pre><code> Instead, users see a message saying the sites have been blocked because of anti-child-pornography laws.
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Although this is likely done out of incompetence rather than malice, this is how they erode freedom. They pick one thing that the large majority of people are generally against, find one instance of it on a public website, and use that to justify censorship of the entire platform. This happened with reddit in Russia, and it almost became widespread with SOPA/PIPA in the US.<p>Edit: reddit is unblocked in Russia but it was blocked for a time: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3grpdf/tifu_by_getting_reddit_banned_in_russia/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3grpdf/tifu_by_gettin...</a>
Ah, the classic fascist escalation. They already came for the drug dealers, but many did not speak up, for they were not drug dealers, nor did they want to be labeled as such or targeted by death squads. Then they came for the wankers, but indeed many still did not speak up, for they were not wankers, nor did they want to be labeled as such nor targeted by death squads.<p>There are only two logical questions to this whole affair: which groups are next, and when it all stops, who will be left?