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

Done. What a joke.

Urban 75 is blocked as are the drugs harm reduction sites Erowid.org and bluelight. The news site Schnews.org.uk is blocked in searches...

http://data.gov.uk/forum is blocked!

Hah.

Bikeradar also.

Bikeradar also.
#silverlinings

Won't somebody think about the parents?

Everything seems to be blocked. Facebook, twitter, BBC news. This isn't going to last.

http://www.mumsnet.com/ is also blocked.

As predicted... a forum in which mothers chat is going to be blocked by the very people who most demanded a web filter to protect their children.

http://www.mumsnet.com/ is also blocked.

As predicted... a forum in which mothers chat is going to be blocked by the very people who most demanded a web filter to protect their children.

You gotta laugh...

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As my MP is mentioned on it and she might freak out about it and actually start to question it.

Done.

Please tell me the Daily Mail site is blocked?

If they have comments sections they probably are.

The blocks seem to be broad-ranging but if there is a risk of user generated content then the site is blocked.

ive just read and heard about this because im not british but wtf.. that shit cray.. effin 1984 30 years later...

Please tell me the Daily Mail site is blocked?

It is, along with the BBC news, and everything else on the interweb. Everybody will reset the default, and continue as normal.

Oh my god. They've blocked codeclub as well - the volunteer-run afterschool project that teaches kids how to program.

It really does look like the entire internet is blocked.

Oh, wait, no, that's not true - o2.co.uk is allowed.

Everybody will reset the default, and continue as normal.

No, it's a problem.

It's a real big problem.

Very few people change defaults, and very few people will change to the non-recommended setting especially when they're being told it's for their own safety and the safety of their children.

You can be sure children will work around it (Tor, VPNs, etc), and that anyone doing anything extreme will work around (because they already work to cover their tracks and hide their activities).

But the assumption will be made that if you turn off the parental controls, the censorship filters, that you must be wanting to look at adult content, or illegal content.

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%.

With that in mind what I'm saying is that it is not even a leap of the imagination to assume that changing the default will put you on a list to be more closely monitored, for assumptions to be made about you and your behaviour by the algorithms involved.

Changing the defaults is therefore dangerous.

This is censorship, and opting out will be a risky thing for you to do.

And the government managed this by pressuring private companies, and in doing so has made the entire process unaccountable.

People need to be incredibly vocal about opposition, because to not do so is to accept this kind of intrusive control from government, via private companies.

I think I may like O2s approach. Assuming it's: "censor all the things!", which redirects to a web page with a phone number to call to "uncensor all the things!".

The only way to counteract this lunacy is to vote the f#ckers out at the election.

THIS is tyranny, in a velvet glove.

Now that it is here it won't go I suspect.

O2 are (arguably) doing the sensible thing by blocking 98% of the internet, therefore making people have to turn off the filter in order to get anything done.

I'd guess if all the ISPs do similar and 99% of people are more or less forced to switch it off it'll be, at the very least, a nice stuck up finger at the foolishness and unworkability of the filtering.
Would it be annoying to have a lot of people spending their free time switching the filters on and off all day?

It's true though, like bank accounts no one ever changes their default.

It seems the only way to remain visible online is to go down the squeaky clean line of forums like CTC and not allow any profanity or nasty postings.

Shame, but a clever way for the government to censor free speech without really trying.

C'est la guerre.

If you run Chrome download this extension, it evades the filters via proxy.

http://goawaycameron.co.uk/

Great name too.

Well there are number of technological solutions to this problem but that misses the point which is an ideological one.

Also I am weary of sending my internet traffic via an unknown proxy not all traffic is encrypted over https.

This ones probably better tho
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zenmate-for-google-chrome/fdcgdnkidjaadafnichfpabhfomcebme?hl=en

Joe Public is just going to let it roll, clearly the average bear gives zero f#cks about privacy and personal freedom, or freedom of speech for that matter. Eventually we get the internet we deserv, if laissez faire is the response of the population.