Slippery Slopes

In which theoretically minor bans and regulations lead to totally outlandish instances of government overreach and/or unintended consequences.  Today’s example, courtesy of Techdirt:

News is coming out that a Brazilian court has also banned access to WordPress.com, one of the most popular blog hosting sites around. It looks quite similar to the YouTube situation, where the judge really just wanted a single blog banned, but without an easy way to do that, ISPs are blocking the entire site and every blog carried on WordPress. This is, just as with the other bans, a total overreaction. Not only will it call more attention to the “problem” blog, it will piss off and inconvenience a ton of totally innocent people as well.