I haven’t posted anything yet about the proposed mandatory default-on porn filter in the UK for a constellation of reasons, including but not limited to:

• The Britses be crazy, yo;
• Outrage fatigue;
• An ever-growing skepticism about the utility of online awareness-raising;
• My persistent failure to believe that even politicians are really that stupid;
• My distaste at most of the porn-sheepish mainstream commentary; and
• The stupid, it BURNS!

Fortunately, sometimes Violet Blue does the hard things so we don’t have to. She’s waded through all the stupid and porn-sheepish stories about this and winnowed out a handful of smart and useful links for her latest Sex News post:

Do you have UK porn block fatigue? I do, from reading about a hundred million articles about it in the past few days, most of them crappy and hysterical about the concept of porn, or seemingly afraid they might ‘get some on them’ while writing about it. Below are are the best of the week so far, and they’re damn good.

• David Cameron’s War On Internet Porn Lacks a Smoking Gun (VICE)
  Has the UK ushered in an age of institutionalized censorship of open information? (The Grand Signal)
  Survive the Claire Perry Internet (survivetheclaireperryinter.net)
  UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal (TorrentFreak)
  Unblock Torrent Sites, Blocked Proxies, & Cameron’s Porn Filter With Immunicity (TorrentFreak)
  Don’t Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted (SickSad)

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