UK ISP Sky is about to start censoring the web for all of its customers
http://betanews.com/2016/07/07/sky-broadband-web-filters/
The UK government is on a mission to protect the young of the
country from the dark recesses of the web. And by the darker
recesses, what is really meant is porn. The main ISPs have
long been required to block access to known piracy sites, but
porn is also a concern -- for politicians, at least. As part
of its bid to sanitize and censor the web, Sky -- from the
Murdoch stables -- is, as of today, enabling adult content
filtering by default for all new customers: Sky Broadband
Shield. The company wants to "help families protect their
children from inappropriate content", and in a previous
experiment discovered -- unsurprisingly -- that content
filtering was used by more people if it was automatically
enabled.
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Lots of porn they're not blocking bros! And lots of non-porn they are
blocking! What's next -- blocking VPNs and proxies by default too? And
no doubt if you ask to have the porn block removed, your name goes
onto the special government pervert list, where they keep the names of
ordinary people who view porn and Prime Ministers who did
unmentionable things with pigs. Isn't it something how they manage to
emulate the worst of China, while their economy collapses at the hands
of a parade of resigning racist politicians? Oh Great Britain, you've
become oh so small. I'm playing "God Save the Queen" on a tiny little
violin. So sad.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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