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Considering my mobile ISP (GiffGaff) thinks that the ThinkPad wiki is pornographic, I genuinely can say all this is going to do is break the internet.

The last thing we need is a broken Internet here. The economy is fucked enough already.

Add to that the whole is censorship right debate (it's not unless it's opt-in), the pre-crime list this generates and we're right into blatant fascism.

Where do we even start at fixing all this? I think we're helpless.



Come on. We all know the ThinkPad wiki is full of Pornographic terms: http://xkcd.com/243/


To be fair, anyone that finds ThinkPads attractive is pretty twisted.


You can turn off the mobile filtering. IIRC you have to give them some form of ID that demonstrates that you're over 18. My memory says driving license number, but it could be wrong.

Yes, the mobile filtering in the UK is completely useless and blocks many, many sites that having nothing whatsoever to do with porn in any form, and probably fails to block the majority of the porn on the internet but that's where we are.


yes I know. I have turned it off. It requires either a driving license number or credit card number.

It didn't however happen for nearly a month after I made the selection so perhaps I'm now logged as a potential sex offender somewhere...




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