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		InclinedPlane on Jan 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start ... Don't forget Grey's law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. No matter what the intentions are, if the end result is still widespread censorship it hardly matters.

blueskin_ on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

I prefer putting that the other way: Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.

Practically government operations in a nutshell.

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