Friday 26 July 2013

Spameron

Apparently on Monday Cameron waffled on about protecting "our" children on the internet, a policy that not unsurprisingly started to unravel rather quickly. Anyway I know this because Mr Cameron kindly sent me an email on Monday:
Today I gave a speech about how we protect our children on the internet. I want for your children what I want for mine: that they’re safe and that their innocence is protected.
So today we’ve announced big, new steps forward. In a nutshell, the internet providers have agreed to do much more to filter inappropriate images out – they are going to install family friendly filters automatically unless you, as a parent, say otherwise.
So why am I blogging about this on a Friday? Well put simply I've only just discovered the email 5 days later...because, with some irony, it ended up in my spam folder...

2 comments:

  1. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/sleepwalking-into-censorship
    (1) Screen one

    "Parental controls"
    Do you want to install / enable parental controls
    ☑ yes
    ☐ no

    [next]

    (2) Screen two [if you have left the box ticked]

    “Parental controls”

    Do you want to block

    ☑ pornography
    ☑ violent material
    ☑ extremist and terrorist related content
    ☑ anorexia and eating disorder websites
    ☑ suicide related websites
    ☑ alcohol
    ☑ smoking
    ☑ web forums
    ☑ esoteric material
    ☑ web blocking circumvention tools

    You can opt back in at any time

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  2. ...Apparently on Monday Cameron waffled on about protecting "our" children on the internet, a policy that not unsurprisingly started to unravel rather quickly...

    Cameron must be going for some kind of record on policies which collapse within hours. Perhaps the Guinness Book would be interested...

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