Pirate Bay founders host paedophilia site

[silentscream]

A Swedish company owned by the founders of controversial torrent tracker site The Pirate Bay is hosting a site that defends paedophilia.

PRQ, co-owned and operated by Fredrik Neij and Gottfried Svartholm Warg, has refused to take the web page down, citing the principle of freedom of speech.

Read the rest (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/pirate_bay_hosts_dodgy_site/)

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[grab_grab_the_haddock]

People like these guys and CCSDUDE might be scum, but they have a right to their opinions the same as anyone else.

That's the cost of freedom of speech; human trash has a right to be heard.

[drtoker]

talk about it all you want, theres your free speech, but pictures of kids that way is neither artistic or speech.

[N Fiddledog]

That's the problem with radical thinkers. They've got a point at first, but then they just have to step over the line to a place where the general public can't follow them.

It's kind of a self-destruct impulse. Reminds me of Kevorkian.

[Malakai1911]

I can't be the only person who doesn't think Kevorkian shouldn't have been imprisoned. He put to death people who wanted to die, who were terminally ill, and suffering.

[kdemetter]

first , this is about PRQ allowing some site, not about TPB . Trying to link that up can only be seen as an attempt to damage TPB .

I guess it's best to compare this situation with Freenet . an anonymous encrypted platform , wich makes it inpossible for anyone to remove the content . it all boils down to one thing.

the problem is , that if it's possible to make a site unavailable , it's possible to make any site unavailable (think of criticisms towards a dictatorship ) . However , if it's inpossible to remove a site , it will be abused by people with bad intentions .

I's either one way or the other . either freedom or safety . both PRQ and Freenet take the side of Freedom on this . It's not like they are making an easy choice . remember that before you condemn them .

I prefer this quote : Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Benjamin Franklin