[Havoc]

The topic of pedophilia and all it's happy stories is one which can largely be debated about but it will always boil down to the fact that child molesters and pedophiles (please note that there is a difference between the two) are people with a disfunction of sorts. 99% of the time they can't help it that they are the way they are. It's not like the choose to be attracted to children. Giving in to the urges is a whole other deal though and a different discussion entirely. Having said that, I have to disagree with people who class pedophilia as a sexual orientation. While this may sound hypocritical coming from me, I don't think it lays within nature to be attracted to (your own) young. Why not? Because it goes against every single instinct we have to protect young ones. I personaly class it as an illness rather then a sexual orientation.

As for this particular censorship issue. I agree with Jacob that allowing these sites to function openly might create a 'fanbase', however I do not think that merely blocking someone from viewing them is an effective way of fighting it. Stuff like this should be dealt with at the roots. Authorities from different countries should work together in busting people who exploit this stuff and this is what they have been actively doing for a couple of years now. Every now and then I see news reports of co-operations between countries where a few people are arrested and tons of material confiscated.
But it also goes to the standardization of censorship as a whole. While it is unfortunate that child pornography was the example here, they made the right call just to make the statement that censorship shouldn't be as easy as 'this is bad, this is censored'.
To expand the example, lets assume that the topic here was not child pornography but a racist website. The police has a list of extreme right racist websites and calls the ISP to block all of them. Would you agree to this? I personaly dispise racism, the reasoning behind it is idiotic and people who believe this shit are generaly no smarter then a peanut. However, I do not believe sites like that should be censored because it falls under freedom of speach. Once you start taking down sites or other things that might offend someone of some group of people then there will be no ending to it.