UK Planning Another Censorship Attempt

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James Brokenshire, the UK Crime and Security

Minister, has announced his determination to

save the United Kingdom from websites which

arent British by censoring the web. Minister

claimed the end of the free Internet in the

United Kingdom by revealing his plans to order

Internet service providers to block websites

believed to be too dangerous for the people.

Minister explained he will also create a special

department to identify and report material

considered too dangerous for publication on the

Internet. Brokenshire announced that the unit in

question will be responsible for censoring a so-

called extremist content, which perhaps

follows the success off the model to crack on

Internet child abuse. You have probably heard

of the Internet Watch Foundation, partly

industry-funded, which investigates reports of

unauthorized child abuse pictures in the web.

The outfit can ask ISPs to block or take down

websites containing such images. As a result,

theres no child porn in the UK Internet now

thanks to this measure.

Minister pointed out that Prime Minister, David

Cameron, wanted to see a similar model for

terrorist material. Despite numerous freedom

of speech issues, the government believes it

can have a process in place to test what is

against the law.

In the meantime, ISPs good appeal process

might overcome some of the publics concerns.

Apparently, if the government decides to block

Welsh or Scottish Nationalist websites, it will

have to explain to a judge why they are

deemed extremist. This might make sense.

However, less clear would be websites

organizing such things as student protests.