What you watch in the privacy of your own home should be no one's business but yours. That was the case until Prime Minister David Cameron decided that there was too much porn available to minors in the United Kingdom.
"The impact it is having on the innocence of our children. How online pornography is corroding childhood. And how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out," he said in a statement.
So, he locked it down—or at least tried to. Most savvy web surfers are too smart to let a little filter keep them from boner jamz in the UK, or even here in the U.S.
The supposed main goal of the program is to save children from seeing their first pair of melons on an HD screen instead of at a strip club—those are still open. On a more serious note, Cameron does believe that creating this filter can deter illegal activity and the proliferation of illegal imagery, especially child pornography.
When you try to censor the internet, all hell breaks loose, as it should. Given the fact that it's basically impossible to successfully censor all pornography on the Web, the program is destined to fail. Which can be seen by the system unintentionally blocking educational and charity sites while leaving slickly-named porn sites still open.
The country's largest internet providers have begun using the filter by default and requiring customers to opt out of the filtering program themselves—basically shaming people into calling their ISP for access to porn. Needless to say, some people are not down with that.
How to Get Back Uncensored Internet Browsing
If you want your porn back, but don't want to ask anyone, you can download the free Chrome extension, Go Away Cameron.
Simply install the extension and make sure to enable it for incognito browsing, as well. It's really that easy, which makes the whole filtering thing seem so silly. Go Away Cameron will also work in other countries and can be used to get around pesky school or library filters, as well as parental blocks. Try it out at your local Starbucks and see if it works for you. The internet is too big and too smart to be blocked.
And if you are browsing these "unholy" sites, make sure to use private browsing and clear your web browser history and cache frequently.
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