'Porn lock' heralds death of WikiLeaks, internet, democracy
Found on The Register on Sunday, 19 December 2010
The British government wants to gag WikiLeaks, and is drawing up Orwellian plans to exploit fears over the effect of online smut on children to achieve that aim.
Vaizey declared his position on the issue in Parliament in late November. "We are talking about preventing children from having access to inappropriate content, and how we can work with ISPs to make it that little bit more difficult for them to do so," he said.
"This is a very serious matter," he said. "I think it is very important that it's the ISPs that come up with solutions to protect children.
I'm so sick of it. I don't care about the children. It's the job of their parents to keep an eye on what they are doing online. If they can't figure out how to lock down a computer, well, put it away and let the kids play outside. That's been working fine for generations and saves the other Internet user from having a crippled and censored access. Of course, this wouldn't make it easy for the government to force censorship down everybody's throat; but the "think of the children" card does.