But they're going to be on-by-default, opt-out-only in the near future anyway, because the Great Firewall of Cameron is based on lazy populism, not evidence.
The worst part is that the technologically naive parents the filters are supposed to be helping are likely to be believe the empty promises that somehow, David Cameron can simply make the all the bad Internet pages invisible in Britain.
Those parental-control filters? As few as 4% are signing up [Nicole Kobie/PC Pro]
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