This year marks the arrival of the Porn Filter in the UK. This means that you will someday get a call from your ISP asking whether or not you want to be able to get to certain pages on the internet. The original intent for this was to "protect" people that didn't want to see hardcore pornography on their computer, but it seems to be going a lot more deeper than that. When they phone, they will ask you a number of questions on whether or not you want to opt in to being able to get access to certain sites. This will include Porn, information about drugs, gay sex, abortion, you name it. It seems that Cameron is hiding behind one agenda while secretly trying to achieve another. Now you could argue it isn't so terrible that they are asking us whether or not we want to see these things, and yes, some people may get embarrassed saying that they want to opt in to being able to see certain things, but it goes SO much more deep then that. It's about freedom. We shouldn't have to be asked whether or not we want to see certain things. If you don't want to see them, then don't see them. Don't inflict YOUR moral "High ground" on other people.
It's a way of controlling what we as a country are spending our time doing, and if we allow this to come into our houses and dictate what we can and can't do in the privacy of our own homes, it will pave the way for more radical censorship.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/03/david-cameron-internet-porn-filter-censorship-creep
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/21/uk-porn-filter-blocks-game-update-that-contained-sex
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