Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Well that didn’t take long

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Whilst I expected this to happen I’m slightly surprised that it’s been quite this quick. Just the other day BT announce they’re turning on censorship by default and before you can say “cluster fuck” it emerges that O2 are blocking a support site for homeless LGBT teens. This isn’t an accident, or at least not much of one, this is the filters working as designed. The New Statesman covers it very well, the debate was always framed as anti-porn when it was never just about porn, we don’t know who compiles the lists, the lists get changed and updated all … Continue reading →

Last week else where

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Apparently I still haven’t quite got the hang of this regular posting lark, so late in the week here’s some stuff from last week. Vignia introduces a new Stazi App to report your neighbour Affordable steel printing coming soon The police rebuilding links with the media by inviting them to the most salacious raids Even Nobel prize winners say peer review is broken Can we move on from everything being Left or Right wing? +6-1

Welcome to censorship Britain

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From this month following repeated nudges from the Government Britain no longer has an uncensored internet by default. As of this month BT will be asking all new customers what level of internet censorship they want. Whilst this is being described as a porn filter, it’s quite clear that even at the “light” level it’s not just “porn” that’s being blocked. The details of the other categories are really worryingly vague, from BT’s control panel it’s revealed what those categories refer to: Obscene and tasteless Sites where content is offensive or tasteless such as criminal activity, bathroom humour, or gruesome … Continue reading →