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It's bad enough in the UK, but this royal baby nonsense even seems to be the newspaper flavor of the day in the USofA!...
What a co-incidence it is then, that today was the day the UK government chose to announce legislation that will force UK ISPs to censor their content under the guise of protecting children from inadvertently accessing pornography.
OK, fair enough. No-body wants kids to stumble upon unsolicited porn. However, then we hear that the wise Prime Minister's proposed legislation will also ensure that pedophiles will not be able to use search engines to access child pornography or images of child abuse on the internet...
... WTF? What planet is this moron (and his advisers) living on?
No! He's not a moron, just a
, using scare tactics to soften UK fools up to being yet even more spied upon (guess which country has the highest per capita CCTV usage). Thin end of an ever thickening wedge. Shhhhh... did I hear someone just whisper the word PRISM?
Here's the Grauniad's take on it.
What a co-incidence it is then, that today was the day the UK government chose to announce legislation that will force UK ISPs to censor their content under the guise of protecting children from inadvertently accessing pornography.
OK, fair enough. No-body wants kids to stumble upon unsolicited porn. However, then we hear that the wise Prime Minister's proposed legislation will also ensure that pedophiles will not be able to use search engines to access child pornography or images of child abuse on the internet...
... WTF? What planet is this moron (and his advisers) living on?No! He's not a moron, just a
, using scare tactics to soften UK fools up to being yet even more spied upon (guess which country has the highest per capita CCTV usage). Thin end of an ever thickening wedge. Shhhhh... did I hear someone just whisper the word PRISM? Here's the Grauniad's take on it.
