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That's partly because filters don't really work the way they're supposed to.

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I'm not surprised hotels offer the least filtering. They don't want to put the lonely business man off staying there do they? ;) :lol:

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I'm not surprised hotels offer the least filtering. They don't want to put the lonely business man off staying there do they? ;) :lol:


I'd have thought the opposite, they want to filter as hard as possible so that they buy those "premium" videos available via the television. :lol:

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I can't say I've stayed in any hotels in the UK that offer 'premium' channels as you put it.
When I've stayed in hotels in America, those channels were well advertised on the default hotel information channel.

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You've reminded me of an extract from Mr McBride's book on Labour

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Gordon, it cannot be denied, had occasional Queen Victoria tendencies.

When it came to reshuffling his ministers, he’d always need reminding why certain people should be ruled out because they were considered at high risk of blackmail.

Then he’d screw his face up in horror when told about their private lives.

But my favourite Queen Victoria moment took place on a plane returning from South America in 2009.

I had to tell him about a newspaper story revealing that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s parliamentary expenses included a claim for a pornographic film, downloaded to her home TV. (Her husband later owned up.)

Before we could even get Gordon to focus on what to do about this, we had to deal with his utter bewilderment that those channels just before BBC Scotland on his Sky box were all porn channels, and that you could use them to download X-rated films.

He was particularly incredulous when his special adviser Stewart Wood started listing some of the more famous parody titles.

When Stewart got to ‘Shaving Ryan’s Privates’, Gordon uttered a horrified: ‘What?!’


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I suspect that they would not want to be considered filtering their customers browsing. Also many are from outside the UK so will have different interests.

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