UK instals internet filter

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Who's next? Australia?, Canada?

 

 

 

Buh-Bye interwebs!! UK INSTALS INTERNET FILTER

 

 

The internet is doomed, 'Cleanfeed' has been accepted!

 

http://www.indymedi a.org.uk/ en/2008/02/ 391376.html

 

" The British ISPs have accepted Cleanfeed. (Internet filter)

 

June | 14.02.2008 18:12

 

As of December 31 last, all UK ISPs dutifully

responded to Home Office minister Vernon

Coakerâ?Ts request to â?~voluntarilyâ?T sign up for the Cleanfeed system.

 

Thus, as in China, the British have sheepishly

agreed to have their Internet content, filtered,

censored and where the Internet Watch Foundation

(IWF) or the Home Office decide blocked. This

despite there being no legislation to support the Cleanfeed system.

 

British Telecom developed Cleanfeed. A list of IP

addresses is drawn up by the â?~industry

watchdogâ?T, the Internet Watch Foundation,

supplied to the Home Office which then augments

it, and then handed to ISPs with the order to

block traffic to and from those addresses.

 

As the Legalize Cannabis Alliance points out, no

one except the Home Office knows what's on that

final list. We were originally led to believe

that it would be purely a list of child

pornography sites. It has now expanded. No one

outside government knows what is on it, not even

the ISPs. They block; they don't look.

 

The Legalize Cannabis Alliance published an

attack on the UK Cleanfeed action on Tuesday, 22

January 2008 under the title â?~Internet

Censorship in the UKâ?T. Like this web site, the

LCA has also suffered Google censorship.

 

Here are some highlights from the LCA article.

 

You're now viewing a state-mandated subset of the

internet. How do you feel about that?

 

Like to vote against it? You can't.

 

Like your MP to sit on a committee to oversee implementation? He can't.

 

Like to know if the Google results you're seeing

are a full representation of Google's actual results? You can't.

 

Censorship at this level - above even ISPs, is

all but invisible to the end user. It's a secret

that they're keeping these secrets from you, (and me).

 

Now, this isn't China you might say, we trust

our government to only censor material that needs censoring. Sure?

 

This is the same government that has leaned on

ISPs inside the UK, and outside, not with the

intention of blocking illegal or obscene

material, but simply sites that irritated,

embarrassed, or offended the government.

 

Not using legal methods either - a court order,

say - but bullying and threats.

 

And this is the same government that was only

beaten by one vote in the House of Lords, on

their 2006 proposal to force UK ISPs to drop

sites on the say-so of a single police officer.

 

This is, remember, that same government that's

constantly telling us, with regard to ID cards,

that if you have nothing to hide, you have

nothing to fear. Why then, do they hide this list?

 

Editor. And donâ?Tt forget that this government

is about to introduce the criminalization of

extreme porn (including spanking!). Watch the

dawn raids with TV crews filming when that happens.