The U.K.’s porn censorship plan has all the makings of a disaster

[Wireless News]

The United Kingdom’s government has been taking heat for asking British ISPs to implement.pornography.filters as default settings for their users, who will have to specifically opt out of the filter to get full access to the Internet. Quartz’s Leo Mirani passes along two stories showing why any attempts at instituting mass pornography filters will be abject failures that will anger users and that won’t even stop the distribution of illegal content such as child pornography. Citing two separate instances,.Mirani notes that the London British Library’s filtering system recently blocked one user from accessing Hamlet due to its “violent” content and also blocked another user from accessing a series of Tennyson poems, even though the library claims that its filters are

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