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Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains images housed by the 85-billion-page web history database. But this fails to explain why Demon Internet and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Simple Solution

    Since the IWF filtering is voluntary, you simply need to demand your ISP provide you with an unfiltered connection. If they refuse, switch ISPs.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @Simple Solution

    "simply need to demand your ISP provide you with an unfiltered connection" - you will probably get the same pile of untruths and repeated obfuscation as I got when I tried to complain to Virgin about the previous covert censorship. If you ask for a MAC to transfer to another ISP they will put various barriers in your way, including having to call an 0845 number rather than e-mailing the MAC to you. This appears to be contary to OFCOM guidelines, but I don't know if I can be arsed to persue the matter.

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  4. John PM Chappell
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    @Andrew Crystall

    Kindly stop talking out of your arse; your lack of expertise in and understanding of the technical, legal and philosophical aspects of this issue is showing and your repeated trolling is getting boring.

    In practical terms, you can tell your ISP that you do not wish to be subjected to filtering, especially not the IWF list and that if they are not prepared to remove it you will change providers (there are ISPs who don't use it at all).

    The wider issues ought to be obvious; some people genuinely want to have some filtering in place so that they are very unlikely to ever see anything 'offensive' but there are products (even free ones, I recall) for precisely that purpose and nothing to stop ISPs from offering an opt-in filtering of certain categories of website (I don't like this but customers are customers and businesses make money meeting their needs and desires). Everyone else wants to be able to access any computer with a routable IP address on any protocol they choose, without interference, the ISPs could do with being reminded of that fact, alongside the well established principle of they not being accountable for the use of their infrastructure in an illegal manner, especially wrt content.

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  5. James Pickett

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    Our local paper reported the arrest of someone charged with possession of unsuitable photographs and 'pseudo-photographs'. That sounds worrying to me - he's either been doing a bit of swapping around in Photoshop (sad, but probably harmless) or viewing some Japanese comics, but it could be a pernicious wedge. Personally, I'd rather such people were at home on their computer than outside the school gates.

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