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I'd call a court order "action taken by the Government". It might not be action taken by the legislature, but it is still government mandated filtering using systems originally intended for child pornography.


I'm not sure it's really fair to say that any system which gets used by the courts is 'the Government'. Almost any system is open to abuse if it's not perfectly constructed, and the blame can lie nowhere else but 'the Government' in this case. It kinda ruins the ability to determine where the actual fault lies. Was it faulty ruling or was it badly drafted law?


Scroll to the top of the page. Click the link. There is your mission creep.




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