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UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-not-good dept.

oldandcold writes "Given the recent coverage and controversy over Australia's forthcoming web censorship system, it is somewhat surprising (and worrying) that Clause 11 of the UK's proposed Digital Economy Bill seems to have gone by largely unnoticed. It amends the Communications Act 2003 to insert a new section 124H that could give the Secretary of State powers to order ISPs to block pretty much any website for pretty much any reason. Such orders would not require the scrutiny of parliament, or anyone else for that matter, because the Secretary of State would not be required to publish them."

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  1. Don't worry, I've got a plan... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Move to CHINA.

    At least there you'll have access to Socialist Propaganda!

  2. Not required to publish by Thanshin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not required to publish? That's nothing. In the next planned amend the Secretary of State won't even have to know.

  3. Re:What happened to you, UK? You used to be cool by phoenix321 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Non-man-made climate change is a myth by the oil industry. London was only cold because mankind didn't burn much coal back then and it was great. Let's spend some trillions to go return to that.

  4. Re:Very different situation than Australia by idontgno · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, that's a difference that makes no difference. A nation made up entirely of transported convicts and ne'er-do-wells is, by definition, all bad guys.

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  5. Re:What happened to you, UK? You used to be cool by hondo77 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was pretty cool until Lemmy moved to Hollywood.

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  6. Re:We need a distributed fragmented encrypted laye by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    6. Onion routing (at least a few hops standard)

    I'm not so sure about that one. I mean, they keep getting the news all wrong, do you really want them to route your information?

  7. Re:What technical obligation to ISPs? by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best thing is, Japanese routers have lots of tentacles to connect to other routers.

  8. Re:I love transparency! by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love transparency! I love it. I really do.

    I bet you like PNGs a lot.