SCMagazine: "ISPs and web filtering - are MPs right?"

- 06 June 2012Security

Smoothwall's Simon Wilcox speaks to SC Magazine about whether or not the Government would be sensible to impose web filtering at ISP level.

As we wait for the David Cameron's consultation on whether ISPs should have to implement opt-out blocks on pornography, it's worth taking the time to think more broadly about whether the network level is the right place to catch the wrong sort of content.

Whilst the most recent news was driven by the report from MP Claire Perry's independent parliamentary inquiry into online child protection, it is not just adult content that ISPs are being asked to block...

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SCMagazine: "ISPs and web filtering - are MPs right?"

As we wait for the David Cameron's consultation on whether ISPs should have to implement opt-out blocks on pornography, it's worth taking the time to think more broadly about whether the network level is the right place to catch the wrong sort of content.