BT, and a number of other mobile broadband providers are apparently blocking access to The Pirate Bay, according to PC Pro.
Interestingly if you try and access the site, you get a message saying the page has been blocked in compliance with a new voluntary code – now, that code has come from an organisation called the IWF – or Internet Watch Foundation.
The IWF is a kind of Internet content monitoring agency, looking out (as far as I was aware) for things like inappropriate adult content. However it’s not clear why The Pirate Bay is added to their list.
All of the mobile broadband providers are following the same code according to PC Pro, which suggests it’s not just The Pirate Bay that is going to be blocked/filtered – it is however, the website du jour since the high profile cases in the news….
Well it’s an interesting precedent of sorts – up till now the general assumed view was that people should perhaps police their own viewing, but certainly in the case of mobile broadband, it would seem there is a proxy of sorts in place, doing it for us.
What do you say readers? Fair? Shocking? Let us know…..
[Original story via: PC Pro]