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Archive for the ‘Internet Blocking’ Category
Censorship Love-In…Censors and moralists to gather at Westminster Forum for a one-sided discussion about blocking porn anything remotely adult
Posted: 21 May, 2013 in Internet Blocking, Internet CensorshipTags: porn blocking
Wasting Space…After years of wasting money proposing internet censorship, the government is now crowing about how much will be saved by dropping the idea
Posted: 18 May, 2013 in Internet Blocking, worldTags: Australia, Website Blocking
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An Internet Suitable for Mary Whitehouse…Government wants to block anything vaguely adult from public Wi-Fi
Posted: 4 May, 2013 in Internet Blocking, Internet CensorshipTags: Internet Censorship
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Public Internet to be Censored as Suitable for Kids…Cameron set to ban anything remotely adult from public internet networks
Posted: 24 April, 2013 in Internet Blocking, Internet CensorshipTags: Internet Blocking
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Stereotypical European Political Correctness…Gender extremist proposal for total EU ban on porn voted down
Posted: 12 March, 2013 in EU, Internet BlockingTags: European Parliament
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Inappropriately Wide Reaching…British Naturism points out that Elspeth’s Howe’s Online Protection Bill has become a Censorship Bill
Posted: 10 March, 2013 in Internet Blocking, UK ParliamentTags: Internet Censorship, Online Protection Bill, UK Parliament
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European Parliament blocks constituents emails re porn censorship…Pirate Party MEP blows the whistle on a disgraceful disregard for democracy
Posted: 9 March, 2013 in EU, Internet BlockingTags: censorship, European Parliament
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British Sky Blocking…Sky Broadband to introduce ISP level website blocking
Posted: 7 February, 2013 in Internet BlockingTags: Sky, Website Blocking
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So which is the more traumatic, Texas Chainsaw or Debbie Does Dallas?…Children’s internet concerns are a little closer to home than the moral campaigners would have you believe…
Posted: 3 February, 2013 in Internet BlockingTags: Safer Internet Day
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Turning the Internet Off at Night…David Cameron appointed Claire Perry as his personal Mary Whitehouse. Now she gives a couple of clues about what she is working on
Posted: 26 January, 2013 in Internet Blocking, Internet CensorshipTags: Claire Perry, Internet Blocking
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This seminar will bring together key perspectives on the next steps in addressing commercialisation and sexualisation of children online, including efforts being made in the UK and Europe by policymakers, business groups and third sector initiatives concerned with enabling young people to have safe access to online communities and to participate in culturally rich content. It is timed following David Cameron’s commitment to new web filter proposals and the European Commission’s policy European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children.
The axing of Stephen Conroy’s other pet project, the controversial mandatory internet blocking scheme, will save the government more than $4 million.
Anything judged to be adult content is to be banned from public wi-fi networks by the end of the year, according to David Cameron’s Mary Whitehouse.
EU politicians have voted against a pan-European ban on all forms of porn, including on the web, at least for now.

BSkyB has claimed that computer-based parental controls were not enough to protect kids who use web-based services on a variety of devices. So network-level filtering will be applied to the service at some point in 2013.
Children are as upset by violent videos on YouTube that feature animal cruelty or beheadings and by insensitive Facebook messages from divorced parents as they are by online bullying and pornography, according to the biggest survey of young British people and their internet use.
One of Perry’s big themes is empowering parents to be able to take back control of a space she feels adults have largely ceded to our children . It’s clear that she sees leaving a child to their own devices in the online world as akin to leaving a child to wander through a city alone at night, and it’s time for parents to take back control. She said: