September 24, 2007 8:43 AM PDT
Experts doubt plan to block bomb recipes on Web
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This word killing now, is just being totally stupid, is also dangerous that somebody is even thinking it.
However, if really, italian person can make it happen, he will found few problems in finnish language.
Few examples. Bomb is in Finnish base word "pommi" and then some 13 forms, pommini, pommista, pommiin etc.
And can be part of longer word like hintapommi (means great price value, eg super sale)
So, what is that AI application to clear all pommit from Finnish text..
JJ
Just about anyone who is smart enough to use a computer in the first place can figure it out. It's just high school chemistry.
Fear mongering and censorship does Not promote security. You would be better off teaching people more about explosives so they can recognize one when they see one.
A free country should never censor information. Learning "how" to build a bomb has scientific merit, and does not mean someone will "build" a bomb.
As FYI, this article and all comments would also be filtered by the EU proposal: even though it has nothing to do with building bombs.
Reality 1a. Many terrorist organisations, for example, the IRA, we successfully training bomb-makers well before the advent of the web.
Reality 1b. Do terrorist organisation even use the web for this purpose. What about these famous training camps in places like Afganistan etc.
Assumption 2. A little bit of censorship is harmless.
Reality 2. No, its just the start of a slipper slope of erosion of civil liberties.
Assumption 3. This is technically possible.
Reality 3a. What about all the potential langauges to be used? what about bitmaps of the documents? what about spoken instructions in MP3. There would be a million and one ways to get around this.
Reality 3b. Who will bear the cost of this. Yes, the already over-taxed european citizen
Reality 3c. What about all the false positives. I justed googled "Bomb Kill Genocide" which returned 1,500,000 hits. Most of the hits were on news articles discussing this very issue. They would be blocked - how very democratic.
In Europe, basic freedoms we take for granted (like Freedom of Speech) is not guaranteed. Political parties can be banned by governments (e.g in Germany.) Or look at the intrusive level of surveillance allowed in the UK.
Other G8 countries have draconian laws as well. In Canada they can hold you in prison forever if you're deemed a "security threat", even if you're acquited of guilt OR even *after* you've served your sentence if you get convicted. Until recently even Canadian citizens can be held indefinately without trial using "security certificates."
The USA, after all, is still land of the free.
Getting rid of knowledge is not going to do anything.... In all reality, I can walk into a library and walk out with a book that tells me the chemical formula for Semtex and other explosives, as well as how to make them.
They don't even have a list on that book of the people who take it out!