Cameron's proposed filters extend to more than just porn


Recommended Posts

Cameron's proposed filters extend to more than just porn

The British prime minister's internet filters will be about more than just hardcore pornography, according to information obtained by the Open Rights Group.

The organisation, which campaigns for digital freedoms, has spoken to some of the Internet Service Providers that will be constructing Cameron's content filters. They discovered that a host of other categories of supposedly-objectionable material may be on the block-list.

As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course.

 

Source

Link to comment
Share on other sites

wont be long until proposing to block any opposing views about government policy,

just like certain web forum deliberately remove any comments that critical to their POV.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

wont be long until proposing to block any opposing views about government policy,

just like certain web forum deliberately remove any comments that critical to their POV.

 

Likely already happening. What do you think "extremist related content" means? Every politician claims opposition views are "extreme."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Likely already happening. What do you think "extremist related content" means? Every politician claims opposition views are "extreme."

 

We've already seen this in the UK where benign green and anti-capitalist groups have been treated as extremists, spied on and infiltrated by the police. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Cameron is having a bubble if he things this is going to get through, it will be stopped last minute. Someone somewhere will find some European human rights law to fight it.

If not i say we all organise a mass opt out.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

The list is a best-guess based on current mobile phone lists. The ORG has spoken briefly with some ISPs, and come up with what they think the list will look like.

 

There is a lot of speculation here; nothing really solid.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Since Tor can be used as a legitimate tool too it's really not on that it's website will be blocked :/

Lol yes a legitimate tool to get around government filters...

Worked it out yet?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It was never about porn. Once you have the tools in place to filter the internet you can filter what you please.

Exactly. They will be filtering political dissent before all is said and done. And all other freedom of speech.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.