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

I would place pretty big bets that the argument will be made that in the 5% who disable parental controls, there exists all paedophiles, violent people, etc... and that it would be an effective use of net monitoring to more closely monitor this segment.

We've already seen this year that the NSA and GCHQ monitor everything, and now they will have a nice switch to monitor too... the 95% are safely controlled, throw all resources at the 5%.

Censorship aside, this is one one of the bigger issues for me. I know that as soon as I opt-out of the filter I'll likely become a more significant data-point for the giant spy networks.

I hope some good comes out of this, and educates the 'average' user into the use of VPN's and other such use of technology, thus rendering both the blocked-site list and massive data collection less efficacious.

Seems that the government is shooting itself a foot a little with this.