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Originally Posted by Tarantella
Ah, but an opt in or opt out system drives a coach and horses through the right to privacy.
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No, it doesn't. Anymore than any other restriction on what you can view.
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Does the BT keep a publicly available list of censored websites? Restricting access would mean in most cases a particular website would 'fall off' the search engines. How would you then know what an isp is restricting you from seeing?
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No one is restricting you from seeing ANY legal websites. All they are saying is that you need to ask for access to certain ones. This is no different to a shop asking for proof of ID when selling alcohol or age restricted videos.
You need to get some perspective.
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Originally Posted by Tarantella
Restricting access reduces numbers accessing a website and less popular websites end up on page 97 or thereabouts of a search engines listings and whose to say isps wont stop search engines spiders accessing those websites in future?
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Do you *really* think that the *users* ISPs have any bearing on whether Google can access a site or not? The only ISPs involved when Google do that are Google themselves and the hosting ISP. Google may (and do) block some offensive sites, but do you seriously think that any hosting ISP would voluntarily block Google?
Also, I don't think Google's page rank system works the way you descibe. How could it (unless the site is secrketly reporting how many visits it gets to Google)?