The British culture secretary wants to censor the internet; not just the British portion of it, but the entire English language internet:
The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, says in an interview today that the government is considering the need for “child safe” websites — registered with cinema-style age warnings — to curb access to offensive or damaging online material.
He plans to approach US president-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration with proposals for tight international rules on English language websites, which may include forcing internet service providers, such as BT, Tiscali, Sky and AOL, to provide packages restricting access to websites without an age rating.
“There is content that should just not be available to be viewed. That’s my view. Absolutely categorical,” Burnham, the MP for Leigh in Greater Manchester, told the Daily Telegraph. “If you look back at the people who created the internet, they talked very deliberately about creating a space that governments couldn’t reach. I think we are having to revisit that stuff seriously now.”
Apart from the fact that his proposals are just unworkable, naive and done with no understanding of the internet, why the fuck is the culture minister is proposing these measures? Shouldn’t he defend freedom of speech on internet rather than scare monger? Or is he just another lazy fuck who wants to outsource the raising of his children? It seems to be, since he talks about leaving his children on the internet without supervision. Typical New Labour, never taking responsibility for their own actions.
Mr Burnham, see figure one:
