UK ISP Censorship: China, or Political One Liner?

David Cameron has announced that every household in Britain connected to the Internet will be obliged to declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography. All Internet users will be contacted by their service providers and given an “unavoidable choice” on whether to use filters. This is more than likely to increase complexity, administration and therefore, ultimately, cost of the service provided to end users. This blog article looks at what this aims to achieve and whether it is likely to succeed, or if it’s just political rhetoric.

Posted by on Mon, 29 Jul 2013
tags: politics.