Not that the ISP should be doing this anyway, but it's worth noting that porn as political satire has a long history. The Marquis de Sade, for example, used to write stories featuring politicians of the day finding... creative... uses for the French Constitution.
3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it
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#12I just change the APN to 3internet from three.co.uk which gets rid of the censoring. Settings / Wireless and networks More / Mobile networks / Access point names on my Nexus S.
So far (nearly two years) no ill effects with billing, I'm on the one plan which allows tethering YMMV.
The only gotcha I'm aware of is that bits of three infrastructure such as the MMS server and I think the "mythree" stuff don't recognise the phone anymore but thats no big deal for me. So the couple of times I've received an MMS I've changed the APN back.
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#13O2 in the UK blocks craigs list...
It's a real issue that this stuff is blocked by default, especially when you sign up to a contract where I expect you have to be over 18 anyway!
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#14Among other sites that are blocked is also reddit.com/r/sex . I cannot understand how preventing children to access educational sex-related materials could be construed as "protecting" them.
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#153UK user here. Came up against this block for what I assumed was a relatively normal site. I phoned the company and had to jump through hoops to prove my age after being asked So, just to confirm Mr Buckley, you wish to access adult content on your phone? . Eagerly anticipating the end of my contract next month.
And then join up with who? All of the 3G operators have similar opt-out filters.
Orange makes you give them your credit card number. GiffGaff made me give them my drivers licence number.
I like that with GiffGaff I didn't need to talk to a person, just do it online, but in general you'll have to deal with this no matter who you sign up with.
I think even Imgur (Reddit's image host) was blocked at one stage.
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#163UK user here. Came up against this block for what I assumed was a relatively normal site. I phoned the company and had to jump through hoops to prove my age after being asked So, just to confirm Mr Buckley, you wish to access adult content on your phone? . Eagerly anticipating the end of my contract next month.
And then join up with who? All of the 3G operators have similar opt-out filters. Orange makes you give them your credit card number. GiffGaff made me give them my drivers licence number. I like that with GiffGaff I didn't need to talk to a person, just do it online, but in general you'll have to deal with this no matter who you sign up with. I think even Imgur (Reddit's image host) was blocked at one stage.
My work mobile is on the EE network and doesn't appear to have any issue with adult content. The industry I work in requires me to access explicit content occasionally and I've yet to come up against any roadblocks with EE.
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#17Among other sites that are blocked is also reddit.com/r/sex . I cannot understand how preventing children to access educational sex-related materials could be construed as "protecting" them.
I agree that the filters are overly broad, but in fairness /r/sex isn't just about education. There is educational material on that sub, but there is also "adult" content in the strictest sense.
I always viewed these filers as being in place for actual children (age 1 to 11), teenagers (12+) should have them removed. If I had kids I would have no issue with them watching porn (aside from 3G data usage) and I wouldn't want to accidentally stop them from accessing information on sexuality.
I think a lot of parents have this strange idea that if you stop kids getting at the information (or condoms) that that will somehow stop them from having sex (or doing other stuff). But the research and statistics are contrary to that.
Frankly my biggest concern would be so called "sexting" (i.e. sending erotic pictures or video to their teenage love-interest). Which unfortunately only education can combat, there are no workable technological solutions that I am aware of.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then join up with who? All of the 3G operators have similar opt-out filters. Orange makes you give them your credit card number. GiffGaff made me give them my drivers licence number. I like that with GiffGaff I didn't need to talk to a person, just do it online, but in general you'll have to deal with this no matter who you sign up with. I think even Imgur (Reddit's image host) was blocked at one stage.
My work mobile is on the EE network and doesn't appear to have any issue with adult content. The industry I work in requires me to access explicit content occasionally and I've yet to come up against any roadblocks with EE.
It looks like EE does have it. Maybe they just don't apply it to company purchased phones?
http://help.ee.co.uk/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURA...
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#193UK user here. Came up against this block for what I assumed was a relatively normal site. I phoned the company and had to jump through hoops to prove my age after being asked So, just to confirm Mr Buckley, you wish to access adult content on your phone? . Eagerly anticipating the end of my contract next month.
Good luck with that. The only time I've screamed with rage down the phone at some poor customer service rep (who was just following the script given to her) was trying to end a 3 contract. They are bastards.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
My work mobile is on the EE network and doesn't appear to have any issue with adult content. The industry I work in requires me to access explicit content occasionally and I've yet to come up against any roadblocks with EE.
It looks like EE does have it. Maybe they just don't apply it to company purchased phones? http://help.ee.co.uk/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURA...
Interesting. Either it doesn't apply to company phones or their filter is shockingly bad.