UK Government Seeking To Expand Scope of 'Voluntary' Website Blocking 75
An anonymous reader writes "The UK Internet Watch Foundation, which already works with most consumer broadband ISPs to block websites that contain child sexual abuse content, could soon see its 'voluntary' remit extended to include internet sites that contain 'violent and unlawful' content."
I knew it (Score:5, Insightful)
This is exactly why we should not allow internet censorship at all; the more sites are already censored the easier it is to add another one to the list.
Why doesn't the UK save some trouble ... (Score:4, Insightful)
... and just route all their traffic through China? DNS, traffic, all of it. The system is all set up and running, waiting for them to join.
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Re:I knew it (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:potentially quite a good thing to at least look (Score:4, Insightful)
If we accept this argument, we must then accept that these people cannot be relied upon to participate properly in a democratic system without supervision, and it's a short step from there to disenfranchising the whole lot of them altogether.