Online Gambling Sites NOW "Targeted" by UK’s ...New Internet Filters

**Panther Casino Affiliates** · 27 January 2015, 8:31 am

January 25, 2015

Online gambling sites will be blocked by default in the UK as internet service providers heed Prime Minister David Cameron’s latest ‘think of the children’ plea.

In July 2013, Cameron announced his proposal to require all internet customers to opt-in if they wished to access a variety of ‘adult’ online material, including sites featuring gambling, pornography and violent content.

Sky was the first of the UK’s four major ISPs to make the move, announcing this week that it would roll out its new Sky Broadband Shield filter within the next 10 days.

All Sky broadband customers will have to log in and alter their settings in order to continue accessing their favorite gambling and wanking sites. A Sky PR flack called the move “the right and simplest solution to a problem we all know is out there.”

Within days, TalkTalk had joined Sky among the guardians of the porno galaxy, pledging to impose its HomeSafe filters in February. Like Sky, TalkTalk’s product requires users to actively disable the filters, which will be switched on by default for all new subscribers.

There are now just two major ISPs – BT and Virgin Media – who have yet to go Orwell on their customers. BT is surveying its customers as to whether they want automatic filtering while Virgin has so far left it up to subscribers to switch on its custom filtering tools.

So far, the voluntary take-up rate by Virgin subscribers has been under 10%, in keeping with a July 2014 report from Ofcom that found just 13% of new ISP subscribers had taken advantage of optional filters.

Critics have already seized on the fact that the filters are blocking a whole lot more categories of supposedly objectionable content than advertised, including sites related to alcohol, tobacco, drugs and anorexia.

Transparency advocates Open Rights Group said last year that the websites of 54 registered charities had been blocked, apparently based on a wrong keyword or two.

The Ofcom report found that existing filters blocked 19% of the top 100k most-visited websites, while porn is believed to account for only 4% of sites.

Some URLs related to the counties of Sussex or Essex had even found themselves blocked due to the presence of the dreaded ‘sex’ suffix. (Finally! A way to avoid the horror that is TOWIE.)

Vicki Shotbolt, CEO of social enterprise project the ParentZone, called filters “at best a distraction from the most important way to look after your family online,” i.e. having open and frank dialogues with your kids.

But that kind of personal responsibility wouldn’t give Cameron anything to crow about come the next general election, would it?

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**-Shay-** · 27 January 2015, 8:47 am

Laurence, no disrespect intended. I notice that you cite (and link to) the article by CA in 2013. Do you have a recent source that substantiates the "recent" claim as well?

**Panther Casino Affiliates** · 27 January 2015, 9:27 am

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**-Shay-** · 27 January 2015, 10:28 am

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**sweetbet** · 27 January 2015, 1:07 pm

Why are they only now starting to think of the children?

**TheGooner** · 27 January 2015, 2:16 pm

Originally Posted by Panther Casino Affiliates

link https://calvinayre.com/2015/01/25/bus...ernet-filters/

If you read that item there is a perfect example of "Nanny State" going overboard with the censorship and getting it wrong ...

The Ofcom report found that existing filters blocked 19% of the top 100k most-visited websites, while porn is believed to account for only 4% of sites. Some URLs related to the counties of Sussex or Essex had even found themselves blocked due to the presence of the dreaded ‘sex’ suffix.

Doh!

**Scampi** · 27 January 2015, 2:34 pm

Is there even an issue with children gambling online in Britain? I've never heard of one. Blocking porn I kind of understand, but blocking the word 'sex' is counter-productive to sex education.

**TheGooner** · 27 January 2015, 2:57 pm

Not to mention several UK counties local websites ... there are quite a few Essex website ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=suss...essex+websites

**JackTenSuited** · 27 January 2015, 3:12 pm

Originally Posted by TheGooner

Not to mention several UK counties local websites ... there are quite a few Essex website ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=suss...essex+websites

Don't forget Scunthorpe

It's such a ludicrous system, where does it end? Why can't parents take responsibility for what their children do on the internet?

**sweetbet** · 27 January 2015, 7:26 pm

I must say that I would be really disappointed if I was living in any of the below mentioned places and they were filtered out just because of the way they sound.

London Street and Place Names

Back Passage, London
Mincing Lane, London
Mudchute, London
Percy Passage, London
Swallow Passage, London
Trump Street, London
Cumming Street, London
Cockfoster, London
Dick Turpin Lane, London
**** Hill, London
Titley Close, London
Cockbush Avenue, London

English Village and Place Names in England

Acock’s Green, Worcestershire, UK
Babes Well, Durham, UK
Bachelors Bump, Essex, UK
Backside Lane, Oxfordshire
Balls Green, Kent, England
Balls Cross, WestSussex
Bareleg Hill, Staffordshire, UK
Barking, Essex
Beaver Close, Surrey
Bedlam Bottom, Hampshire, UK
Beef Lane, Oxfordshire
Beer, Devon, UK
Beggars Bush, Sussex passed her prime
Bell End near Lickey End
Bishops Itchington, Staffs, UK
Bitchfield, Lincolnshire
Boggy Bottom, Abbots Langley, Herts, UK
Booty Lane, NorthYorkshire
Bottoms Fold, Lancashire
Broadbottom, Cheshire, UK
Brown Willy, Cornwall,UK
Bushygap, Northumberland, UK
Catholes, Cumbria
Catsgore, Somerset, UK
Charles Bottom, Devon, UK
Clap Hill, village in Kent, UK
Clay Bottom, Bristol, UK
**** Alley, Calow, UK
**** Bridge, Hope, Derbyshire, UK
**** Green, nr Braintree
**** Lane, Tutts Clump, Berkshire, UK
**** Law, Northumberland, UK
**** and Bell Lane, Suffolk
Cockermouth, Cumbria
Cockernhoe, nr Luton, UK
Cocking, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK
Cockintake, Staffordshire, UK
Cockpit Hill, Derbyshire, UK
Cockplay, Northumberland, UK
Cocks, Cornwall
Cockshoot Close, Oxfordshire
Cockshot, Northumberland, UK
Cockshutt Wood, Sheffield, UK
Cockup Lake District, Cumbria. UK
Coldwind, Cornwall, UK
Crackington Haven, Cornwall, UK
Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK
Crapstone, Devon
Crotch Crescent, Oxford
Deans Bottom, Kent, UK
Devil’s Lapful, Northumberland, UK
Dicks Mount, Suffolk
Drinkstone, Suffolk, UK
Faggot, Northumberland, UK
Fanny Barks, Durham, UK
Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire
Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire
Feltham Close, Hampshire
Feltwell, Norfolk
Fingringhoe, Essex
Flesh Shank, Northumberland, UK
Friars Entry, Oxfordshire
Fruitfall Cove, Cornwall, UK
Fudgepack upon Humber, Humberside
Gay Street, Sussex. UK
Gays Hill, Cornwall, UK
Giggleswick, Staincliffe, Nth. Yorkshire, UK
Golden Balls, Oxfordshire, UK
Gravelly Bottom Road, nr Langley Heath, Kent, UK
Great Cockup & Little Cockup, hills in The Lake District, UK
Great Horwood, Bucks, UK
Great Tosson, Northumberland
Grope Lane, Shropshire
Hampton Gay, Oxfordshire, UK
Happy Bottom, Dorset
Helstone, Cornwall, UK
Hole Bottom, Yorkshire, UK
Hole of Horcum, North Yorkshire
Holly Bush, Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK
Honey Knob Hill, Wiltshire
Honeypot Lane, Leicestershire
Hooker Road, Norwich
Horncastle, Linconshire
Horneyman, Kent, UK
Hornyold Road, Malvern Wells, UK
Horwood, Devon, UK
Jeffries Passage, Surrey
Jolly’s Bottom, Cornwall, UK
Juggs Close, EastSussex
Knockerdown, Derbyshire, UK
Lacock, Wiltshire
Letch Lane, Bourton-on-the-Water, The Cotswolds, UK
Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK
Lickers Lane, Merseyside
Lickey End, Worcestershire, UK
Lickfold, West Sussex
Little Horwood, Bucks, UK
Little Bushey Lane, Hertfordshire
Long Lover Lane, Halifax
Lower Swell, Gloucestershire
Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
Minge Lane, Worcestershire
Moisty Lane, Staffordshire
Nether Wallop, Hampshire
Nob End, South Lancashire, UK
Nork Rise, Surrey
North Piddle, Worcestershire
Ogle Close, Merseyside
Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire
Old Sodom Lane, Wiltshire
Over Peover, Cheshire, UK
Pant, Shropshire
Penistone, Sth Yorkshire, UK
Piddle River, Dorset, UK
Pork Lane, Essex
Pratt’s Bottom, Kent
Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
Pump Alley, Middlesex
Ram Alley, Wiltshire, UK
Ramsbottom, Lancs, UK
Rimswell, East Riding of Yorkshire
Sandy Balls, Hampshire
Scratchy Bottom, Dorset, UK
Shaggs, Dorset, UK
Shingaycum Wendy, Buckinghamshire
Shitlingthorpe, Yorkshire, UK
Shitterton, Dorset
Shittington,, Bedfordshire, UK
Six Mile Bottom, Cambridge, UK
Slackbottom, Yorkshire, UK
Slag Lane, Merseyside
Slip End, Beds, UK
Slippery Lane, Staffordshire
Snatchup, Hertfordshire
Spanker Lane, Derbyshire.
Spitalin the Street, Lincolnshire
Splatt, Cornwall, UK
Staines, Surrey
Stow *** Quy, Cambridgeshire, UK
Swell, Somerset
The Blind Fiddler, Cornwall, UK
The Bush, Buckinghamshire
The Furry, Cornwall
The Knob, Oxfordshire
Thong, Kent
Tinkerbush Lane, Oxfordshire
Titcomb, near Inkpen, Berkshire, UK
Titlington Mount, Northumberland
Titty Hill, Sussex, UK
Titty Ho, Northamptonshire
Tosside, Lancashire
Turkey **** Lane, Colchester, Essex, UK
Ugley, Essex
Upper Bleeding, Sussex, UK
Upper Chute, Hampshire, UK
Upper Dicker & Lower Dicker, East Sussex, UK
Upperthong, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wash ****, Norfolk, UK
Weedon Lois, Northampton
Weedon, in the Parish of Hardwick, Buckinghamshire, UK
Weeford, Staffordshire, UK
Wet Rain, Yorkshire, UK
Wetwang, East Yorkshire
WhamBottomLane, Lancashire
Wideopen, Newcastle, UK
Willey, Warwickshire
Winkle Street, Southampton
Wormegay, Norfolk, UK
Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire

Place Names in Scotland

Ardfork, Aberdeenshire
Ardgay, Ross & Cromarty, UK
Assloss, Ayrshire, Scotland
Backside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Backside, Banffshire, Scotland
Ballownie, Angus, UK
Blackdikes, Angus
Bladda, Paisley
Forest **** Road, Lanarkshire
Boghead, Ayrshire
Boysack, Angus, Scot.
Brokenwind, Aberdeenshire
Butt of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
**** of Arran, Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK
Cumloden Court, Dumfries and Galloway
Dick Court, Lanarkshire
East Breast, Inverclyde
Fannyfield, Ross and Cromarty, UK
Fattiehead, Banffshire, Scotland
Hillo’ManyStanes, Scotland
Inchbare, Angus, uk
Inchinnan Drive, Renfrewshire
Inchmore, Aberdeenshire
Merkins Avenue, West Dumbartonshire
Stripeside, Banffshire, UK
Tarty, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
The Bastard, a mountain in Scotland, uk
Twatt, Orkney

Welsh Place Names

Bullyhole Bottom, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Cat’s Ash, Monmouthshire, Wales
Pant-y-Felin Road, Swansea
Penisarwaen, village in Gwynedd, UK
Sodom, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Splott, Cardiff, Wales
St.Mellons, Cardiff
Stop-and-Call, Pembrokeshire, UK
Tarts Hill, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Three Cocks, Breconshire, Wales, UK

Seriously, how do they come up with these names?

**-Shay-** · 27 January 2015, 10:26 pm

If they're going to go this route, then "for the sake of the children", I look forward to no longer seeing gambling advertising of any sort on the advertising boards of every football match in England. Gotta look out for those kids now...

**freebetking** · 28 January 2015, 2:19 am

as much as this is complete crap, the sooner cameron and his cronies are out the better, you have to have faith in the fact that people who like porn and gambling tend to really really like porn and gambling and will not let a little thing like an internet filter stand in their way.

**thebookiesoffers** · 28 January 2015, 2:23 am

Originally Posted by freebetking

the sooner cameron and his cronies are out the better

completely disagree and if have to suffer that little shivering leaf Milliband being our PM next im off to Spain to live

**Voids** · 28 January 2015, 7:32 am

Originally Posted by thebookiesoffers

completely disagree and if have to suffer that little shivering leaf Milliband being our PM next im off to Spain to live

Never voted as I'm still waiting for a politician that actually wants to better the country not themselves. Imagining a meeting between Ed & Obama just makes me cringe. We going to set up Costa Del Casino?

**thebookiesoffers** · 28 January 2015, 7:48 am

Originally Posted by Voids

Never voted as I'm still waiting for a politician that actually wants to better the country not themselves. Imagining a meeting between Ed & Obama just makes me cringe. We going to set up Costa Del Casino?

someone said on a different forum I use "imagine Milliband trying to tell Putin what to do, Putin would ruffle his hair and tell him to go and make the tea while the big boys have a chat" lol, pretty much sums it up

**Sherlock** · 28 January 2015, 12:31 pm

Spain is having really crazy laws against online world recently. It is as bad place for digital nomads as UK (and the rest of Europe and US).
Ironically I am buying new servers in Russia, because they do not give a s... and if you do not mess with politics and Russian market everyone is happy for the business.

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