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[ PRIVACY Forum ] UK is expanding their screwed up mandated porn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Mon Feb 17 00:03:04 2014
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UK is expanding their screwed up mandated porn filters to include more
topics they can screw up
http://j.mp/M5rqkU (Techdirt)
"The UK government's futile and ham-fisted attempts to purge the
Internet of all of its rough edges and naughty bits are about to see
international escalation. The country is only really just kicking off
their campaign to impose porn filters that not only often don't work,
but also have so far managed to accidentally block numerous entirely
legal and useful websites including technology news sites like
Slashdot, digital rights groups like the EFF, rape counseling
websites, and more. David Cameron's government has long-stated they
want this filtering to eventually extend to websites deemed
"extremist" by the government, and it appears that new proposals being
drafted hope to make that a reality sooner rather than later."
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Here's a plan. Cameron can just use "*" as his filter block directive and
avoid all the intermediate steps. No Web! No Problem!
--Lauren--
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