Petition: don’t add all adult sites to the British national internet censorlist

The UK Conservative government is pressing on with their insane plan to block all adult sites (including ones that are legal for adults to access) for all UK internet users.

Not only will this fail to keep kids from looking at pornography (the stated purpose of the bill), it will also force the millions of British adults who engage in the totally lawful conduct of looking at adult-oriented material in the privacy of their own homes to take evasive action.

Finally, the radical expansion of the UK’s already opaque national censoring firewall to include all adult sites will mean that millions of websites will be blocked according to secret criteria and through a secret blacklist. Even assuming that no one abuses this situation to secretly block the things they don’t like, a very small false positive/overblocking rate, even 1%, would mean that thousands of legitimate sites would be blocked.

The Open Rights Group is collecting signatures to give to MPs about this. I’ve signed up. I hope you will.

Stop UK censorship of legal content [Open Rights Group]

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