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Once it is on the internet it is going to hard for any government to stop it. There are too many links to sever.

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I'd say impossible. Are there any similar cases where a government or a company succeeded?

They could poison the well, put nearly identical plans out there with a fatal-kill-the-shooter flaw in them.

These are too simple for intentional design flaws not to be obvious, especially since the parts need to be assembled.

Oh, I don't know. These are basically so flimsy that the barrel is only good for one shot. I imagine changing some tolerances slightly could make that less than one.

I would estimate that it would be pretty much impossible for the average internet user to find child pornography or videos of murder/rape etc. But I find it is hard to estimate if the reason for that is targeted government action, or it is because sharing those kinds of material goes against the natural moral instinct of most normal people.

Only this year Facebook refused to remove videos of a woman being killed by having her head cut off.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22368287)

They've since changed[1] their mind about this, but finding videos of real people being really killed is trivially easy for anyone. This isn't in some specialised guro community or a shock image on 4chan, these were distributed on a social network with a billion users.

[1] Weird that they had to change their mind because these clips seem pretty clearly to violate their rules already.

They are probably harder to find than other forbidden stuff, but that's because of a community effort. The Pirate Bay censors child porn as far as I know and they do it voluntarily without any external pressure.

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