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Leaked Letter Shows UK ISPs and Government At War Over Default Filters
An anonymous reader writes, quoting the BBC: "A letter sent to the UK's four leading ISPs from the government has made them very cross indeed. The letter comes from the Department for Education but it sets out a list of demands from Downing Street, with the stated aim of allowing the prime minister to make an announcement shortly. The companies are asked, among other things, for a commitment to fund an 'awareness campaign' for parents. They're not particularly happy about promising cash for what the letter concedes is an 'unknown campaign' but it's the next item on the menu which is the source of most of their anger."
That next item is making and marketing Internet censorship filters as "default-on" rather than "active choice": "'It sounds like a good idea until you think it through,' said one industry source. 'There are three reasons why it doesn't work. First it may be illegal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers. Then there's the fact that no filter is perfect, and finally kids are smart enough to find their way around them.'" From the sound of it, it might just be newspeak vs newspeak. The entire letter is included in the article.
Recently you had a sickening example of eugenics in the USA, where prisons in one State were sterilising women prisoners against the law. Filthy, filthy shills, like the sort that cheered the 'aquittal' of Zimmerman-the-Lyncher, said "what's the problem, the prisoners gave their 'consent'". Of course, as a prisoner in a US prison you never really consent to anything. Say 'no' and that means a beating, or refusal on your next parole hearing, or being singled out for rape in the guise of enhanced body searches, or any one of a thousand other ways the US government uses abuse against those it incarcerates.
The so-called 'optional' Internet filter proposed for the UK works in the same way. The mass murdering war-mongers known as the 'coalition' want an 'on by default' filter so that in most family households, it is 'politically' impossible for any given adult to dare to argue for switching the filter off. If there are kids, the pressure is obvious. Even if there is just a couple, the calculation is that the woman will be jealous of the 'real' reason the man wants unfiltered Internet access, causing the filter to stay on.
Indeed, the coalition already has soft campaigns planned by the BBC and tabloid newspapers in the UK saying "only dangerous perverts and extremists want the Internet filter switched off". After a few years at most, the politicians assume they can use this ploy to make the filter mandatory all the time. "Do you really want your neighbour accessing this filth?"
It is a standard 'slippery slope' play of the type we already see being rolled out in brain-dead authoritarian regimes like that of Australia. However, the UK is not Canada or Australia, and even the scum that supports/serves those that rule in this country do not like the idea of widespread state censorship. The Internet filter concept currently only enjoys the support of old women- a significant political force but almost certainly not powerful enough.
However, the UK is constantly on the verge of taking the leap, and becoming a type of police-state unlike any previously seen in earth's history. Tony Blair's Academy School movement is creating new generations of very dumbed down Britons who have been trained to accept the same conditions found within conventional prisons - the Academy Schools being modelled in significant ways on the so-called Super-Max prisons within the USA. SuperMax prisons attempt to psychologically control their prisoners at all time, and break them by doing so. The Academy Schools attempt the same process, intending to produce young sheeple that positively crave the most extreme forms of police-state policies.
In reality, most people come out of Blair's Academy system hating authority all the more. A handful of pupils, identified and recruited by Blair's Common Purpose organisation, positively revel in the authoritarian ideas, and become Blair's new enforcers in all important control positions in society. The sheeple may not be turned, but Blair continues building an ever growing thug base to control the sheeple.
An example is how Blair has just raised the 'leaving age' for schooling to 18 (17 this year, 18 2 years hence). No one, and I mean no-one wanted this change, but the sheeple simply sat on their hands and did nothing to oppose the idea. Blair initially proposed sending 17 and 18 year-olds to prison when they decided to 'drop out' but wasn't powerfully enough at the time to get this draconian measure accepted. Instead, Blair is going to fine them and their parents (a massive percentage of whom will be single parents). For a period, chaos will reign that will make Thatcher's (Blair's hero and his first official visitor when Blair became Prime Minister, even though Blair's predecessor was actually a chump called Major) Poll Tax look like a Summer picnic by comparison.
Blair is engaged in classic 'Problem, Reaction, Solution' manipulation of the sheeple, for when sheeple whose kids refuse to co-operate with Blair's post-16 'education' schemes ask "what can we do, our children are