A leaked government letter has cast a spotlight on the tensions between UK internet service providers (ISPs) and the government around home broadband filtering.
The Department for Education letter, leaked to the BBC, was reportedly sent on Prime Minister David Cameron’s behalf to the four major ISPs BSkyB, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and BT, though they are not explicitly named.
In the letter, the government asks ISPs to change the name of their parental filtering offerings from “active choice +”, which correctly implies that filtering will only be activated if you want it, to “default-on”, which wrongly implies that you’ll wake up one day to find that porn and other adult content has been blocked. […]
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