One is being reported by the BBC. In Britain there's a government post with the Orwellian title of "Culture Secretary". The title is of course a misnomer as a Culture Secretary does not so much promote culture, as restrict it. At the moment the post is occupied by one Andrew Burnham.

Mr Burnham, a father of three young children, believes internet-service providers should offer child-friendly web access.

In other words, anodyne and safe for the likes of Mr Burnham. But how can ISPs only offer child friendly access?

This isn't about turning back the clock. The internet has been empowering and democratising in many ways, but we haven't yet got the stakes in the ground to help people navigate their way safely around it [...] This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it, it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people.

A wider public interest than free speech. There is no public interest wider than free speech. Free speech is a human right. Burnham and his ilk find that human right inconvenient so he wants to curtail it in favour of a greater good - his own convenience.

How the government will do this is a mystery, but no doubt high on the list is giving ISPs a list of approved web sites. That's one way Mr Burnham can have "stakes" to help the sheeple navigate.

It is no wonder that Guido, who has been identified as a threat by ministers, is moving his website somewhere else.

Guido is being threatened again, because some minor politician, Zac Goldsmith, who can't keep his dick in his trousers, doesn't want the truth to get out about his bedroom exploits.

And that's the truth of it. Politicians want to censor the internet so they can do what the want with impunity.

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