Quote Originally Posted by Magis View Post
Yeah, let's let government censor even more what they want. This same line of thinking got American's the Patriot Act and now Canadians Bill C51. The terrorizers gonna all get us.

Also cyber crime is still illegal.
Hyperbole aside, what is your point? I'm talking about finding a way to enforce existing laws in meaningful ways online, it has nothing to do with censorship. honestly I wish that the paranoia surrounding regulation and lawn enforcement online would learn to look at reality and what is said instead of immediately assuming that anyone suggesting enforcing existing laws online is requesting a return to the East Germany of the Soviet era.

As I pointed out (as has Kyuven) the problem is not whether things are illegal, for example , in the USA. The criminal committing the offense will more than likely be hidden behind a foreign hosted proxy, with a foreign based server, and be a foreign national themself. So, despite the fact that whatever horrible thing they did online is illegal here, it's not illegal where they are, so what do you do then? For that matter, even if they were in the US, or the EU, the law there still hasn't figured out how to handle online offenses properly, even just enforcing existing laws is pretty patchy.

If someone in another country where there are no laws governing what is done online decides to stalk you, steal your identity, slander and smear you, and harass you with threats, there is currently next to nothing you can do to prevent it, or bring them to justice. How is wanting to fix that issue censorship or related to things like the Patriot Bill?

Seriously, put the hyperbole cannon away and focus on the point of the topic - which relates to how do you stop RMT and other online scams without some form of international accord among law enforcement that covers the online world?