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thewayneIn an interesting article, David Cameron's proposed porn filter goes much farther afield than just filtering porn. ..."in addition to pornography, users will also be required to opt in for any content tagged as violent, extremist, terrorist, anorexia and eating disorders, suicide, alcohol, smoking, web forums, esoteric material and web-blocking circumvention tools. These will all be filtered by default, and the majority of users never change default settings with online services."
So if you are a home brewer who works for a newspaper with foreign correspondents who is writing a book about an anorexic suicidal violent extremist, you can pretty much forget about being able to do what you need to do. And I'm very curious about that block on web forums.
Another lovely detail is that one particular filter already in place, which was praised by Cameron, is run by Huwei, the Chinese firm with ties to the Chinese government and accused of espionage by both the UK and US governments.
Be warned: this page has auto-run ads video with sound. I didn't see a 'print' option for the article, my apologies.
http://www.ibtimes.com/uk-porn-filter-censorship-extends-beyond-pornography-one-isp-fighting-back-1361379
So if you are a home brewer who works for a newspaper with foreign correspondents who is writing a book about an anorexic suicidal violent extremist, you can pretty much forget about being able to do what you need to do. And I'm very curious about that block on web forums.
Another lovely detail is that one particular filter already in place, which was praised by Cameron, is run by Huwei, the Chinese firm with ties to the Chinese government and accused of espionage by both the UK and US governments.
Be warned: this page has auto-run ads video with sound. I didn't see a 'print' option for the article, my apologies.
http://www.ibtimes.com/uk-porn-filter-censorship-extends-beyond-pornography-one-isp-fighting-back-1361379
