Oh, good grief:
http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2013/0 ... s-blogger/

Oh, good grief:
http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2013/0 ... s-blogger/

That's priceless, I hope it gets the attention it deserves.

UK to Censor Esoteric Websites
UK’s great Internet firewall to censor access to esoteric and occult websites
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has recently set large segments of the world up in arms by deciding to set up a country-wide firewall that will block access to pornography unless citizens opt out. (Similar measures were tried earlier across the EU and summarily thrown out.) But the block apparently won’t be limited to porn: ISPs will also be forced to block violent material, extremist sites, pro-anorexia and pro-suicide sites, alcohol, smoking, web forums (?!) and even… esoteric material.

Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing relays:

You may be saying to yourself, hell, how are they going to be able to sort out which websites are unacceptably pornographic, let alone which sites are “smoking” related? That’s a damned good question, and the answer is “with the broadest brush possible.” Huge chunks of the Internet will be effectively unreachable, and which sites go into the censorship bucket will be decided upon in secret, by unelected employees of big corporations, like China’s Huawei. Sure, you can untick the box if you want, but as David Cameron’s advisors will tell you, defaults are powerful and most users never change them.
The censoring of “esoteric material,” in particular, has pagan groups up in arms. (Presumably Ultraculture will be blocked from warping impressionable young British minds into lives stained with pernicious sins like thinking for themselves, questioning mainstream values and caring about the environment?) Pagan community discussions are being conducted at Wild Hunt and LAShTAL. Meanwhile, a new service called Immunicity has appeared which circumvents the firewall—better get hold of it before Cameron starts blocking access to ways to get around the firewall. Nikki Wyrd has another good examination of the issue at the UK-based chaos magick site Blog of Baphomet.

Such a New Inquisition, as Robert Anton Wilson might have put it, shows how terrified Western governments are of the Internet undermining not only their ability to keep secrets but also, by connecting people and services, many of their reasons for existing at all. If I was a government plutocrat sitting in the White House or 10 Downing Street and watching the Arab Spring happen due to Twitter, I’d be [LIFTED] scared too. But in putting clamps on the Internet, governments are likely to not only stifle the flow of free expression and alienate their citizenry, they’re also liable to throw wrenches in the progress of online business and the ability of their own economies to stay competitive on the global stage.

It also, of course, raises massive questions about religious freedom, and the absolute human rights emergency of the state deciding that diverging from mainstream religious beliefs is apparently now forbidden.

How far will the UK (already revealed by Ed Snowden to be far more advanced along the surveillance-state path than the US) go in cracking down on Internet freedom—and will the United States follow suit? Let us know how you feel in the comments below and at our Facebook group.

What you quoted there is obvious hysterical bollocks. Perhaps it should be filtered.

They are extrapolating to a fair degree, it's true. However, their point that "ISPs will also be forced to block violent material, extremist sites, pro-anorexia and pro-suicide sites, alcohol, smoking, web forums (?!) and even… esoteric material." raises the issue beyond simply 'Porn=Bad' and, as far as the esoteric sites, possibly into religious censorship.
It'll be interesting to see how far this will end up going.

http://www.ultraculture.org/uk-to-censor-esoteric-websites/

ISPs will also be forced to block violent material, extremist sites, pro-anorexia and pro-suicide sites, alcohol, smoking, web forums (?!) and even… esoteric material.
So, I guess the some of the TV catch up services will be locked down too.

http://www.ultraculture.org/uk-to-censor-esoteric-websites/

ISPs will also be forced to block violent material, extremist sites, pro-anorexia and pro-suicide sites, alcohol, smoking, web forums (?!) and even… esoteric material.
So, I guess the some of the TV catch up services will be locked down too.

Am I the only one to have seen a new trend of "throttling" the woman in porn? I'm sure that wasn't common 5/10 years ago..

Am I the only one to have seen a new trend of "throttling" the woman in porn? I'm sure that wasn't common 5/10 years ago.
For having dated men who took all their inspiration from porn, it is a very concerning trend.