Should governments be able to block websites?

[Dante]

Banning sites with things like child pornography doesn't do anything to fix the child pornography problem. When you delete a site like that, it just encourages the people who upload that stuff to make another site. Governments should go after the physical people who commit crimes, not after the websites they create. Those should be a secondary priority.

They should do both, obviously. Just deleting or blocking the site does nothing and just getting the sick bastard that made the site doesn't do much either.

Oh god, this has reminded me of an issue in another forum that some of my friends frequent. There was a pedophile and he managed to get pictures of some of the children that frequent the forum. There are a lot of kids in that forum, considering it's the forum for a webcomic based on Nintendo videogames... I know he got banned and they were going to get him in real life, they had already spoken to the authorities and stuff but I don't know if that worked out. I will check later...