Incoherent Thoughts

It's a damn shame how bad decisions by a few people make Finland look right now.

I'm, of course, referring to the 'child porn' censorship scandal. If you're not familiar with the issue, a while ago a national censorship list was started, with the intention of blocking foreign child porn sites. And those sites only. Intelligent people of course protested this..thing, as it has way too much potential to go very wrong.
And that it did. It went very, very wrong. About a week ago, they added an anti-censorship site to that list. That event led to another, which led to another, and now it's been revealed that about 1% of the blocked sites actually fulfill the description of 'foreign child porn site'. And that, in fact, pretty damn many of the filtered sites fulfill the description 'gay porn'. Nobody knew before this, as...surprise, surprise, the list was secret. They could add whatever site they wanted to that filter. A national filter, that no doubt many didn't even know exists and thus couldn't take measures to go around it (which I'm suspecting would be illegal? Not sure, but isn't that the way these things go?)

Anyway. My point was to say that not all of us were behind this decision in the first place. Censorship is the worse option here. I really, really hope they'll get rid of that stupid (and unconstitutional) list.
Some of the legislation passed in recent years has born more than a passing resemblance to US-like censorship and restricting of rights. I really hope we'd get rid of that, too, but I highly doubt it would happen, at least any time soon. I just wonder how much of Finland there's left before people see what they're doing.