Ministers bid to block extremist videos posted on foreign websites

Very disturbing turn of events<p>&gt; Last October, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned Facebook&#x27;s decision to allow videos showing people being decapitated back on its pages. &gt; He said it was &quot;irresponsible&quot; of the social network.<p>Watching videos of LiveLeak of people being executed by all the sides in Syria, Iraq, Chechnya, Lybia, Afghanistan has taught me more about those conflicts than the BBC, CNN etc. The narco Cartels releasing videos of their hideous torture and murder has totally changed my mind about the cocaine trade.<p>The truth is liberating. Cameron is unwittingly turning himself into the King Canute of myth, trying to prove that he can turn off the tide of truth. Canute was trying to demonstrate the powerlessness of kings. Cameron thinks he has power. He will get wet feet just the same.

Remember when they said filtering would just be for porn?<p>And then just for pirates and porn?<p>Now coming to you based on being an extremist in the eyes of government!

&gt; The BBC has also been told it has proved difficult for the government to act against sites hosted abroad, both in the Middle East and in the US, where freedom of speech is protected by the constitution.<p>As a European, I&#x27;m a bit jealous of US free speech protections.

Oh yes, we must protect people from being exposed to certain ideas. Else they might be convinced those ideas are true. This is for everyone&#x27;s protection.

Have these guys considered that maybe instead of filtering the world to make it seem a better place, just work on making it a better place?

I see UK is becoming the new China when it comes to internet freedoms.