Invisible, Anonymous & Unaccountable Censorship

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | sociology

Censorship is a thorny issue. Innocently using Google (with safe-filter off) to search for water-sports, or latex paint bondage, or child models is likely to return some unexpected and unwelcome results. We have accepted that movies have a rating system, and that TV after the watershed will contain not-for-children content, but the internet is a vast and chaotic sea of content with no ratings system, and accessible by all, or so you thought.
So should a government approved agency work in secret to ban access parts of the web? While most of us are aware of the Great Firewall of China and censorship within Dictatorships and some fundamentalist Muslim countries, few realise that in the UK, 95% of the internet-accessing population are behind an invisible firewall. Wired tackles the issue in this article on internet censorship.

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