UK "default on" ISP censoring will include "web forums" by default

I stole Bothwells starting line and rambled a bit in the middle:

Dear Heidi Alexander,

I'm writing to you, as my MP, to voice my concern over the upcoming "Porn Censorship" bill, introduced by David Cameron this week.

Putting aside the generally distasteful nature of any mass censorship, Mr Cameron and his coalition appear to be using child pornography as an excuse to seriously restrict or outright block the availability of many other kinds of content online. The Open Rights Group have published a report (https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship) which shows what internet service providers are being asked to censor. It encompasses a wide range of material, other than pornography, such as:

Anorexia and eating disorder websites
Suicide related websites
Alcohol
Smoking
Web forums
Esoteric material
Web blocking circumvention tools

The first four on the list could quite easily encompass sites which help people gain an understanding of the issues or seek help from peers. The last three are even more worrying. Web Forums covers a vast range of digital communication tools used by millions of people to communicate (freely!) online. Mumsnet is an obvious example of this type of site. Forums help fuel healthy discussions, provide places for communities to congregate and often keep special interest subjects alive which would otherwise have perished. This brings me onto Esoteric Material, which is an astounding addition. Surely the internet is at its best, allowing groups of people with specialist interests, the opportunity to communicate with one and other across geographies. The vague nature of this particular addition also leaves it open to dangerous interpretation. Finally, web blocking circumvention tools could relate to a vast number of services offered on the web to allow people to remain anonymous. This breach of freedom could severely limit the ability of people to share information of a sensitive nature and remain safe. Web blocking circumvention tools are the key tool currently allowing people, repressed by a dictatorship, to communicate with the outside world, in Syria. Bearing in mind the mass condemnation of the current regime, i find the move to copy their restriction of digital content astounding.

I hope that you, too, find this bill extremely worrying both in its underhand presentation, "in the name of the children", to the country and its wide ranging goals of censorship. I also hope that you feel strongly enough to raise this issue, along with many of your colleagues, in parliament as the government seems determined to to implement this regardless of the implications.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours sincerely,
Soul