A bill in the U.K. to block esocteric web sites

[desert-rat]

Hear is a discussion on another forum on this . I posted some links in my post .
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/showthread.php?p=861864&posted=1#post861864

A quote from Wiccan Together
Hi everyone


I wanted to share with the community here an important issue that's going to affect anybody interested in free access to spirituality or web forums online: The UK Internet censorship bill. Its been launched as a censor against child pornography websites to protect our children, however what is not known about it is that esoteric websites and internet forums are also included in the bill - without being publicly announced... Spiritual, occult and esoteric websites are conveniently being categorized to the same degree as pornography, terrorism, violence, suicide etc...!

[Stillwater]

Yeah I have seen this. I mentioned it a few months back in "news" section, we have a decent discussion on it:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_news_and_media/astralpulse_partially_banned_in_uk_for_2014-t43119.0.html

[desert-rat]

As I live in the US , not the UK I was going by what others had posted on this bill . From a discussion I started on another forum and a post on a web site it looks like this bill was more to put filters on sites . More like parenteral controls , but as I have not read the bill , I dont really know . Its close to the bottom of pg. 2  by Berlake                http://spiritualteachers.proboards.com/thread/3138/bill-block-spiritural-web-sites 

[Stillwater]

It is indeed filters based, but the problem is they are on by default, and people aren't told directly about them. So the thing is that you need to both know you are being filtered, and already know about the thing you want to visit existing. If a person knew they were being filtered and knew there was something they wanted to see, they could call their provider and request an exception.

In my opinion this is a lot of work, and it very effectively keeps most people from viewing whatever the government has de-facto censored.