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

They start by introducing a porn filter. But that's just so they get the filtering enabled (basically everywhere because it defaults to ON).

Then they can, quite conveniently and quietly, filter out whatever they want.

Someone getting a little too vocal about a dodgy government policy? Let's just add them to the blacklist for a while to turn their public volume down.

It's all about getting government control over the internet because the internet scares them because it hasn't been controllable.
I agree. It's the "nothing to hide" argument again. "It's okay, only the bad forums will be blocked".

But then they've got the button. The button to block anything they like with one push.

Presumably my initial thoughts that VPNs would be a simple bypass are incorrect because they will block all VPM IPs.

That means they're also banning private internet access.

It'll be illegal and/or impossible to go online without being monitored. Scary stuff.