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I think it's a band-aid on the problem, and a step in the wrong direction. Granted, they're blocking access to something that is, in their country and most others, illegal, but they're only blocking a small amount of the traffic, not enough to dent the site's income and put them out of business. Going after a small segment of the consumers and not the producers just doesn't make sense. Sure, denying access to something as clearly illegal and harmful as child porn is hard to argue with, but I see the slippery slope...
It's kind of a moot point, since the technology is already out there, but the potential for abuse is frightening. Considering the number of consensual sexual activities that are still illegal in some states (fornication, sodomy, fellatio, use of sex toys) one could easily see fundie zealots in the U.S. applying this approach to block access to a lot of content.
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