Insufferable Idiot Wants to Reinvent Content Filtering

Meet Andy Burnham.  This clueless idiot is the United Kingdom’s “culture minister.”  Instead of working to pretect British culture from completely eroding to the point where the UK is Britainistan due to massive influx of Islamic immigrants, he instead wants to scrub anything that is harmful to children from the internet because free speech is not in the public’s “best interest.”  Hey Andy, have you ever heard of Content Filtering?

Doe-eyed Douchebag wants to destroy the Internet

From the Telegraph here:

Internet sites could be given cinema-style age ratings as part of a Government crackdown on offensive and harmful online activity to be launched in the New Year, the Culture Secretary says. Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

The Cabinet minister describes the internet as “quite a dangerous place” and says he wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents “child-safe” web services.

ISPs, such as BT, Tiscali, AOL or Sky could also be forced to offer internet services where the only websites accessible are those deemed suitable for children.

His plans to rein in the internet, and censor some websites, are likely to trigger a major row with online advocates who ferociously guard the freedom of the world wide web.

However, Mr Burnham said: “There is content that should just not be available to be viewed. That is my view. Absolutely categorical. This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people. We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it.”

It is too bad the UK is powerless to change the way that their government keeps tightening the screws on their freedoms.  And even Barack Obama won’t touch the Internet with a massive effort to censor websites.  So while Britain’s web users will eventually only be able to access Sesamestreet.org, we Americans will still have freedom of speech online.  At least for now.