BT blocks off Pirate Bay
Found on PC Pro on Monday, 20 April 2009
BT and other mobile broadband providers are blocking access to The Pirate Bay, as part of a "self-regulation" scheme.
"This uses a barring and filtering mechanism to restrict access to all WAP and internet sites that are considered to have 'over 18' status," the warning states. It goes on to list a series of categories that are blocked, including adult/sexually explicit content, "criminal skills" and hacking.
Blocking porn on the Internet? That reduces the sites one can happily visit by around 95%. Seriously, what's up with that censorship mayhem? In a few years, those censors will cry because the number of applications which render censorship useless has grown exponentially. Not that this would be a bad thing.