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UK ISPs To Begin Censorship of Porn Websites

Posted by timothy on from the just-wipe-this-blood-over-your-threshold dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a plan sponsored by the UK government, four major UK ISP's, Virgin, BT, TalkTalk and Sky, are set to implement blocking of porn websites, requiring subscribers to 'opt-in' if they want to visit blocked websites (or to put it another way, 'opt-out' of internet censorship)."

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  1. Moral panic panic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Bible, Qur'an and Torah are full of sex, weapons and violence. I hope the new net filters will remove all trace of them off the net.

    Actually this is misreported. Most the ISP's are making it opt-in. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2011/oct/11/internet-pornography

    BT is providing filtering software as part of their install package. Mcafee no less. Botnet admins are probably rubbing their hands with glee.

    1. Re:Moral panic panic. by IgnoramusMaximus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'm inclined to believe that's typically an "or" rather than an "and".

      Well, that is a matter of grammatical debate. Imagine you have a mixed set S of items A and B. In the set A has a property PA and B has a property PB. So when you refer to the set, you can say "Items in S have properties PA and PB" (without distinction of which member has which, just simple enumeration of properties) or "Items in S have property PA or property PB" (which specifically offers additional information on mutual exclusivity of PA and PB). Both are correct.