Seems like most internet service providers have agreed to censor content on the world wide web, so it isn't really the world wide web for UK citizen anymore, it is the internet service provider agreed wide web, or more accurately the Motion Picture of America Wide Web, since they are the ones who paid for the censorship of what is available to us online. The UK government hasn't stooped this low regarding censorship since they decided to ban Gerry Adams from speaking. But here we are.
I know BT censor a huge list of sites, as do TalkTalk and Virgin Media. I mean TalkTalk of all companies should maybe just focus on not getting hacked by 15yr olds maybe as opposed to censoring their content.
I'm sure you have guessed that I am indeed referring almost explicitly to illegal streaming sites. I am not aware of what else they have censored however. I am aware if it was down to the ISP they'd probably be anti-censorship like any sane person should be, the real question is why are the courts allowed to force them to censor their online content? I thought this was the United Kingdom, not the United Arab Emirates.
Regardless for the reasoning behind this censorship, it is never justified, ever. It is the money that trickles down from the top that once again in the UK government is the problem. Large companies who profit from other people's work (film directors, actors etc) are crying because it isn't the 90s anymore and they can no longer rip us off like they used to, therefore their profits have decreased to a smaller large sum of money than it could be. What's that word used to describe humans who always want more than they already have and currently need? Greed isn't it? Well these are the people we have to blame for this censorship of something that doesn't belong to them, the internet is ours, it is for everyone yet these people are trying to monitor what you can access.
Honestly I find it sickening that the British government has agreed yet again to censorship. If it is such an issue, why are they not increasing the funding to police this matter that was deemed serious enough to censor what UK citizens can see online? Why are they wasting time on video streaming sites when there are a wealth of black market sites out there were all kinds of nasty **** go on, the stuff that happens in the dark web is a hell of a lot worse than watching an episode of The Wire for free.
I'd like to say a big congratulations to the British government, well done; you are now in the same category as Thailand, China, N.Korea and many other nations which promote censorship of their people. Censorship is censorship, it doesn't matter how it is justifed, and it is now hypocritical for the UK to condemn something it actively exercises on its own people. Well ****ing done.