[LINK] UK Filtering Proposals

[Roger Clarke]

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been showing increasing signs of 
barminess, but the announcements reported this week really do seem to 
be off the planet.

Warning:  I've not researched this, and the reports that have landed 
in my tray are the partisan channels Torrentfreak and The Daily Mail.

Interesting aspects in those reports:
-   The UK Prime Minister has announced a plan to:
     -   filter the Web, or maybe the Internet as a whole
     -   require people to opt-in to 'online porn'
-   He singled out for praise the HomeSafe system
-   The Homesafe scheme censors many things, not just porn,
     whatever that is
-   The default settings are for the censorship of all of them to be on
-   HomeSafe is run by Huawei


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372833/Internet-porn-depicting-rape-BANNED-Cameron-unveils-opt-rule-web-users.html
http://torrentfreak.com/uk-porn-filter-will-censor-other-content-too-isps-reveal-130726/


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