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British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club

Posted by Soulskill on from the tyrannical-algorithms dept.

An anonymous reader tips news that the Chaos Computer Club's website was inaccessible for many internet users in the UK after being blocked by the filter set up to block porn sites. Additionally, Vodafone users are unable to access the ticket site to this year's Chaos Commuication Conference. In a post on its website, the CCC said, "Internet filters simply do not work, but leaving technical limitation aside, the CCC's example shows that unsolicited overblocking, meaning wrongly classified websites, is a common phenomenon in large censorship infrastructures. However, it may very well be that the CCC is considered 'extremist' judged by British standards of freedom of speech." CCC spokesperson Dirk Engling added, "We see this as proof that censorship infrastructure – no matter for which reasons it was set up, and no matter which country you are in – will always be abused for political reasons."

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  1. Good grief. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Porn filters... Really? Well, what do you expect from a country that has CCTV on every corner in every town, and an internal security apparatus that shames the NSA? We're not talking about Russia here...

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    1. Re:Good grief. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The more realistic, 509,000 people and 619 cameras sounds much less dramatic.

      Not really. If you place those 619 cameras correctly (and I assume they did) in such a small area, I'll bet every single person who lives or works in that place gets their image recorded several times a day.

      Remember, the 500,000 people who come to the City of London to work every day have a limited number of routes to take to get there. A relatively small number of bus stops, train stations, parking lots, bridges and streets makes for easy work for the guys who are upskirting their own citizens' lives.

      I'm guessing it could be done with even fewer cameras.

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    2. Re:Good grief. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And before you ask for a citation regarding those child molestation/murder cults among the elite:

      http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

      http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

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  2. Suprised *gasp* by davydagger · · Score: 5, Insightful
    In china, the official reason for goverment filters is to block porn and malacious content.

    Its like someone doesn't learn lessons, not just from history, but from the present

    When do we start adding UK to the list of unfree states.

  3. Re:So? by knightghost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, that caused the problem. "Save the children!" and other lemming stampede inducing sayings will always be abused by those in power.

  4. The U.K. is a joke, but not a funny one. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Many good Americans died protecting the U.K. from the Nazis, and now the U.K.
    is doing its best to emulate many of the most unsavory behaviors of the Nazis.

    Of course it's not much of a "united kingdom" any more - and those who run
    the show over there are too myopic to understand why.