Telcos react coldly to renewed UK.gov smut-censoring push
Found on The Register on Monday, 19 November 2012
Telcos have once again reacted frigidly to suggestions that Prime Minister David Cameron will force ISPs to proactively offer web-blocking measures to subscribers signing up for their services.
The endgame is apparently for broadband providers to put filters in place for anyone signing up to the services who first say "Yes" when asked if they have kids. Those individuals would then reportedly be guided through a number of questions about restricting web access for their children.
The PM has been warning ISPs for some time to be more robust with their plans to provide better tools to help parents censor sexualised content online, to prevent the government from stepping in with its own regulation measures.
First you blame porn and use it to force censorship down the throat of people. Next thing on the list are political websites the government doesn't like and others, like filesharing.