« Governments must not use cybersecurity as an excuse for censorship or to deny people their opportunities that the internet represents« .
So said David Cameron in 2011, criticising internet censorship and monitoring carried out by other countries around the world.
In 2013, this is the same man who wants to see internet filters installed in homes across the country and whose government collects huge quantities of data from the transatlantic cables that form the internet’s backbone. […]
In the UK, we are now combining this machinery for internet surveillance with restrictions on what content you can and can’t view online. By 2014, David Cameron will have ensured that internet service providers (ISPs) install parental filters on home broadband by default, with consumers having to opt-out to access the internet properly. […]
It is not exactly top-down government censorship — that would be easier to fight. Instead we are being invited to dig the grave for a free and open internet ourselves — and Cameron’s web filters are the shovels.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/29/censorship-surveillance