Cameron's block on porn sites will include 'tobacco-related' sites and forums

[WhichWitch]

I just wanted to alert everyone on here to the new threat to this and other, similar sites. The porn block won't just look to block redtube, but any site relating to a huge list of 'objectionable material', including forums and smoking related sites:

The British prime minister's internet filters will be about more than just hardcore pornography, according to information obtained by the Open Rights Group.

The organisation, which campaigns for digital freedoms, has spoken to some of the Internet Service Providers that will be constructing Cameron's content filters. They discovered that a host of other categories of supposedly-objectionable material may be on the block-list.

As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall

This block could prove disastrous to a huge number of vaping sites, which the government considers as related to smoking, so please make people aware of it.

 

[clint]

The sooner they get voted out, the better in my opinion. We have laws in this country to keep us in check but it's taking it way too far when our freedom of choice is taken. This country is so funked up it's unbelievable. Its going down the shitter. Actually it went down the shitter a long time ago but just when you think it can't get much worse it bloody well does!

There needs to be a revolution!

 

[AndyC1971]

Actually I am quite relieved that this is happening, I can now tell my ISP I want it unblocked for vaping sites. I have been racking my brains for a feasible excuse since it was announced

 

[Whistler]

Actually I am quite relieved that this is happening, I can now tell my ISP I want it unblocked for vaping sites. I have been racking my brains for a feasible excuse since it was announced

Same here. "I am a prolific user of vaping forums, please remove the block" is much better than "I am a perv gimme porn" lol

 

[Merino-Teflon]

First thing I thought when the porn filters, using systems from China, were announced, was that this is the government/business excuse/in road, to start taking control of the internet, and I am hardly a conspiracy theorist. I doubt it would make the slightest bit of difference what colour tie the political party right now is wearing, and to be frank, I reckon that we could have a lot more than loss of vaping arenas to be concerned about.

Hopefully, I am mainly wrong!

 

[Merino-Teflon]

Anyway, no government can stand between me and interracial lesbian porn!

 

[Mawsley]

I better get my fill of dwarf porn tonight before the block kicks in.

 

[clint]

Same here. "I am a prolific user of vaping forums, please remove the block" is much better than "I am a perv gimme porn" lol

So it's going to be a block that we can have removed?
The way I read it is that we will only have access to sites which are permitted by the "powers that be" (dictated to).

 

[Whistler]

Apparently the block will be automatic but can be removed by phoning your ISP. The quotation in the op isn't the full proposition set out by dear mr Cameron.

 

[AndyC1971]

Mobile phone companies have been doing this block for years. Everytime I have had a T Mobile or Orange phone, I was having to ring up to get it unblocked.

The ballache is if you dont have a credit card (To prove you are over 18) you would have to go into their shop with a driving licence or passport. I dont know how the likes of Sky etc are going to do it, but yeah, content block can be removed.