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One year on, the U.K.’s Internet porn filters are still an epic disaster

03
Jul
2014

Who could have predicted that strong-arming ISPs into hastily implementing content filters intended to stamp out pornography would be a disaster? Well actually, pretty much everyone could except for the architects of the policy itself — one of whom, ironically, was just charged with allegedly possessing child pornography. Now The Guardian is reporting that “nearly one in five of the most visited sites on the Internet are being blocked by the adult content filters installed on Britain’s broadband and mobile networks.” Essentially, assorted filters on different ISPs have blocked websites ranging from “a Porsche car dealership, two feminist websites, a blog on the Syrian War” and a popular political blog. For their part, U.K. ISPs are encouraging customers to alert them whenever non-pornographic

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