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    Boing Boing‏Verified account @BoingBoing 23 Dec 2013

    UK's new national firewall blocks Slashdot, EFF, and Boing Boing, unless customers specifically say they want porn.http://boingboing.net/2013/12/23/uks-new-national-firewall-bl.html …

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      1. Daniel John Jones‏ @ideoforms 25 Dec 2013
        Replying to @BoingBoing

        @BoingBoing @julian0liver article actually says the inverse - those sites not blocked by default. still a lamentable direction, of course.

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      1. bibbleco‏ @bibbleco 24 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @karldyson No, it doesn't. Check your facts please. It's bad enough as it is without mixing it up with something else entirely.

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      1. Karl‏ @supersat 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @dakami well, now there's plausible deniability if you really want porn!

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      1. Patchouli Woollahra‏ @PatchouliW 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @xeni because I get so much porn on those sites. *sarcasm*

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      1. dragos novac‏ @drnovac 24 Dec 2013
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        RT @BoingBoing UK's new national firewall blocks Slashdot, EFF, Boing Boing, unless customers say they want pornhttp://goo.gl/74UVA1 

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      1. Martijn Meijering‏ @mmeijeri 24 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @thegrugq Easiest choice in my life.

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      1. Alexey Lyashko‏ @alexey_lyashko 24 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @thegrugq the great firewall of UK. Reminds me of something...

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      1. Piers Karsenbarg‏ @pierskarsenbarg 24 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @harper no it doesn't http://www.technovia.co.uk/2013/12/uk-national-firewall-doesnt-block-boing-boing-eff-slashdot.html …

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      1. Lee Packham‏ @Joolz 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @chronic NOT YOU AS WELL. It's NOT new. That screenshot references a firewall 5+ years old. Seriously another news site :(

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      1. bVork‏ @bVorkitup 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @trap0xf I mean, it's still stupid, but let's be accurate here.

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      1. bVork‏ @bVorkitup 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @trap0xf Not quite what the headline says. Those are blocked via the off-by-default parental filter, not the on-by-default one.

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      1. Dan K‏ @ZDP189 23 Dec 2013
        Replying to @BoingBoing

        @BoingBoing Great Firewall of China -> Hadrian's Firewall

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      1. Tim‏ @Kalyr 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @python33r As far as I can tell, the parental control setting blocks the entire internet.

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      1. Jake Adelstein/中本哲史‏Verified account @jakeadelstein 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @ChibiUFO Egads!

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      1. Hyperlink Your Heart‏ @randomhuman 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing Even your own summary disagrees with this tweet.

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      1.  🌈 Ⓢⓣⓔⓥⓔ Ⓓⓔ Ⓡⓞⓢⓔ‏ @pudgym29 23 Dec 2013
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        |@BoingBoing Could you please send this to @coloneltribune & John Kass, for when it again gripes about porn on library computers?

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      1. Chris Mudkips‏ @Zingtoh 23 Dec 2013
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        @BoingBoing @xeni I´m sure that is just a tragic missunderstanding ... not

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      1. Damien McKenna‏ @DamienMcKenna 23 Dec 2013
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        @bluedroplet I can understand @BoingBoing's classification, but FreeBSD, EFF? Wat?

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