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This is not really new. Iirc the requirement agreed with the government was that users would have an active choice for filtering or not, which I think is requir

by IanCal 5y ago

This is not really new. Iirc the requirement agreed with the government was that users would have an active choice for filtering or not, which I think is required for mobile connections. This is an age gated thing essentially, and can be removed at the request of the user (or never added). Age rated things require some ID I think. That archive.org, a place to archive essentially any content , gets flagged as potentially 18+ or some other content warning is not really surprising.

wumpus 5y ago
When I was a child, I was allowed to go into the adult library. In a conservative, Southern US state. It's a shame to see the UK being more right wing than the most conservative parts of the US.
- StireFarter 5y ago
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  - mastazi 5y ago
    I'm not quite sure that something that is on by default for everyone can be described as parental control, unless in the context of a nanny-state metaphor?
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- mattwad 5y ago
  I don't think they are burning books
  - wumpus 5y ago
    Censorship is more complicated than "people who burn books" and "people who do not burn books".
  - easytiger 5y ago
    One doesn't need to burn books, when then can just be caused to no longer exist
Teever 5y ago
If the bar for censorship is adult content are sites like facebook and twitter blocked by default in the UK too?
makeitdouble 5y ago
> can be removed at the request of the user We’d be pissed to no end if Google deployed an opt-out arbitrary content filtering module in Chrome. Why would you expect an ISP to get a pass for it ? (except for it having precedents)