[joenunya]

as much as I am bothered by the idea of this sort of thing, reading the judge's ruling it was pretty narrow in it's scope. I see this as no different than closing down a crack-house in a neighborhood. It is to everyone's benefit. Still I have very little faith in the court systems of today and what is to say this ruling is not going to be used in the future by corporations to close down sites of both potential competitors or even for companies they want to buy to force a fire sale? I know those are stretches but similar things are done today for real physical property via tactics as rezoning, surprise inspections to declare a building 'unsafe', etc. All of which had their groundwork in what everyone took to be a common sense law or ruling.

Time will tell if this sort of thing is good or bad. Man, I hope porn and weed sites are safe! Yes that is sarcasm and mild humor but I feel they could be put under the same sort of ruling if there are community laws about them. As in since it's not legal in a given area it is perfectly OK to block access at the ISP or even a higher level in the bit-stream. Heck they could drop down to block access on a region/neighborhood level if they want.