Britain: Don't forget that your Internet access may be censored.
The U.K.’s new Internet filters have been in place for several months now, and most people seem to have forgotten about them. Which is kind of the point: Those filters are meant to work silently in the background, supposedly protecting people from accessing “inappropriate” content by mistake.
The filters block a wide variety of material, from hardcore porn to extremist political sites, and were heavily criticized by many people including the Open Rights Group (ORG), which campaigns against online censorship.
These filters have already proven to be ineffective, blocking plenty of harmless sites and failing to tell the difference between sex education forums and porn. In one case, a domestic abuse helpline was blocked as inappropriate material, while many actual porn sites are still accessible when the filters are switched on.
