The death of Harringay online?

Or possibly not the death but at least a malady.

I noticed on one of the other messageboards that I post on that there were complaints that the site was being blocked by one of the overarching "porn" filters that the current government are trying to force through.

Some further reading suggests that one of the categories of websites to be blocked will be discussion boards.

At the moment only o2 provide a way of checking which urls are and aren't blocked. If you go the o2 url checker and enter in this website you will find it's blocked under the parental controls category. This is described as opt-in but that is really just semantics and it will be enabled by default.

As I'm sure of you will be aware, a large proportion of users never bother changing from the default settings so we will soon see whole tranches of websites blocked with litttle or no accountability.

Personally I have written to David Lammy on the issue of these filters and await his response. I would encourage people to look a bit more into this and, if you feel concerned about this huge amount of censorship that is about to be introduced, write to your MP to question it.