BoingBoing on the UK porn filter:

I’ve yet to see any of them adopt a more rigorous, neutral phrasing, like “Some pornography, and things that an unaccountable group classifies as porn, will be blocked.” Instead, to a one, they imply (or state) that all porn will be blocked, and nothing but porn will be blocked. Parents who rely on this service to block porn are in for a surprise when they discover all their favorite stuff has been misclassified as porn and when their kids discover all the unblocked porn.

Still, this makes the UK government look like it’s doing something and makes a Christian charity feel all big and clever.

And in the article’s comments, ‘shadowfirebird’ says:

Not wishing to be critial—since work in this area is genuinely useful—but there is already a solution that stops your child seeing exactly what content you consider inappropriate.  It’s called “sitting with your child while they are accessing the internet”.

And ‘t3kna2007’, perhaps inevitably, adds:

My local public library blocks BoingBoing as adult content.  I was hoping otherwise, but wasn’t too surprised given the usual broad brushes used to paint blocklists.