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UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn

Posted by timothy on from the knows-it-when-it-sees-it dept.

The UK's on-by-default censorship, as you might expect, presses with a heavy thumb: coolnumbr12 writes "The Open Rights Group spoke with several ISPs and found that in addition to pornography, users will also be required to opt in for any content tagged as violent material, extremist and terrorist related content, anorexia and eating disorder websites, suicide related websites, alcohol, smoking, web forums, esoteric material and web blocking circumvention tools. These will all be filtered by default, and the majority of users never change default settings with online services."

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  1. What one has... by mitcheli · · Score: -1, Troll

    So Canada and the UK have universal health care... And soon we (USA) will too, sorta. We've already had bills like COPA that have failed, but if the UK does succeed at implementing this, how long will it be before we have it too, sorta?

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