UK To Censor Internet
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Governments all over the world are shaking in fear by the sheer amount of their dirty secrets that are exposed by the internet. The US leads with the most spectacular disasters like Wikileaks and the more recent Prism unveiling, but other countries have not come away unscathed.
Everyone has dirty laundry and it seems those miscreants on the net just won’t settle for sharing pictures of kittens in various ridiculous poses. But one man has had enough! David Cameron is standing up to fight for all the lying, scheming, power-abusing politicians as they helpless shake their fists while shouting “And we’ve would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling kids and your stupid internet!”.
The usual media outlets are of course doing their duty in selling the cover story which is (also as usual) something about the filthy human habit of wanting to watch naked bodies. The BBC proudly serves as Prime Minister Cameron’s mouthpiece and reports:
Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.
In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales – in line with Scotland.
Mr Cameron warned in a speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood”.
The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers.
He told the BBC he expected a “row” with service providers who, he said in his speech, were “not doing enough to take responsibility” despite having a “moral duty” to do so.
He also warned he could have to “force action” by changing the law and that, if there were “technical obstacles”, firms should use their “greatest brains” to overcome them.
Customers do have the option to shut these filters off but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see what’s going on here. This same move has been attempted in France and Germany before. The aim is to have a morally acceptable base to establish a censorship infrastructure. Playing it smart they just have to wait till it is established before deciding to filter other things too, like pirate sites, unethical content, Wikileaks, foreign news sites, you know the usual way this sort of thing goes. Of course some people are greedy so in the previous attempts they have already started to blabber about filtering other content before the infrastructure was established and we’ll see how long it takes until someone put their foot in their mouth in the UK.
This is admittedly the first time something like this is attempted with the option to shut the government filters off. However this can not be done with a code or push of a button but has to be a permanent decision with the provider, hence registering you as a unfiltered user. Guess who will be watched more closely from now on. If the system was truly intended to protect children it would of course need an on/off switch as most people would want to be able to use the save option while children are around but not have it 24/7 but then again even indulging that point seems a waste of space. Discussing the pros and cons of the flimsy excuse that doesn’t matter will at best only strengthen the lie and help Mr Cameron and his ilk to cover up their real intentions.
It doesn’t take anyone’s “greatest brains” to see through the intent of this latest push in censorship but sadly the moral high ground of someone who claims to want to protect our children is the perfect weapons for this sort of intention and it really is only a matter of time until this sort of censorship is at least partially successful. We’ll see if Britain is the first to fall in this ongoing struggle for free speech.
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This is a bad idea? What are the thinking. As mentioned above policing of the internet should be done by parents. As to child porn maybe.
Wow they are using the “think of the children” brought to them no doubt by the good folk here in the land of the free. I’m sorry, since when does someone have the “moral duty” to tell anyone else what they can and cannot see, read or hear anywhere. Damn and here was me thinking England was freer about the whole live and let live philosophy. The child porn stuff I could try to see but then that gets into something I bet they do not see down the road, how does say, a child advocates group go about finding that crap and getting it off the internet or will that be relegated to just law enforcement. No need to answer, I’m going to do some research so I can see exactly what this is all about.
I’m going to do the same Jess. Research. I don’t think it will happen anyway.
They need to do whatever it takes to stop the exploitation of children.
How about getting rid of ‘literal’ sites such as the Vatican that promote child sexual abuse and now are trying to make it illegal to turn in pedophile priests? Huh?
Actually I read that the latest pope is trying to do just the opposite. He wants to make it illegal NOT to turn in child abusing priests. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I was under the impression that Europeans were more liberal about the portrayal of sex, just like Americans are more liberal about the portrayal of violence, but I guess not?
I was also sort of hoping that all the talk about U.K. becoming a police state was an exaggeration. While outlawing rape porn isn’t exactly indicative of of a police state, I guess it’s always the little steps…
I was under the same impression having lived there for several years, but child pornography isn’t just about sex it’s about sickness. I’m not sure how I feel about Britain’s intention at the moment. I think I need to know more. Good article though.