[TechDirt] Danish Police Accidentally Censor Over 8,000 Sites As Child Porn… Including Facebook

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Reminiscent of the mooo.com screwup in the US, where Homeland Security’s ICE division « accidentally » seized 84,000 sites and plastered them over with a warning graphic about how they’d been seized by the US government for child porn, the Danish police similarly « accidentally » had 8,000 legitimate sites declared as child porn sites that needed to be blocked. Among the sites listed? Google and Facebook. […]

According to NITEC chief Johnny Lundberg, it began when an employee at the police center decided to move from his own computer to that of a colleague.

“He sat down and was about to make an investigation, and in doing so he placed a list of legitimate sites in the wrong folder,” Lundberg explained. “Before becoming aware of the error, two ISPs retrieved the list of sites.” […]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120302/12215817953/danish-police-accidentally-censor-over-8000-sites-as-child-porn-including-facebook-google.shtml