A fifth of the world’s top websites are being blocked by the UK’s web filters

Remember UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s China Lite web blockade, the one that was set up to keep British children from stumbling across Internet Pornography and other assorted subjectively objectionable material? While being ostensibly “for the children,” the default settings are blocking a whole lot of non-porn. “Nearly one in five of the most visited sites on the internet are being blocked by the adult content filters installed on Britain’s broadband and mobile networks. A Porsche car dealership, two feminist websites, a blog on the Syrian War and theGuido Fawkes political site are among the domains that have fallen foul of the recently installed filters. The Open Rights Group, which campaigns for digital rights, surveyed the 100,000 most popular sites as ranked by digital marketing research firm Alexa, and found that 19,000 of them were blocked by at least one fixed line or mobile internet service provider.”.