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Re:London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic... by mibbitier on Monday May 14, 2012 @09:55AM (#3971043)
For talktalk, you have to opt-in to enable their filtering.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/talktalk-to-offer-paren...

Mobile networks have always done silly blocking, and it takes a phone call to them to ask them to remove it. I assume it's more about them not wanting you to use more data than anything else.

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Re:London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic... by mike-cardwell on Monday May 14, 2012 @10:07AM (#3971102)
Hmm. According to http://www.techdigest.tv/2012/05/talktalk_turn_o.html all new customers get the block unless they specifically ask for it to be removed.
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Re:London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic... by mibbitier on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:02PM (#3971924)
Who knows...

It's a bit ridiculous (from the article) "meaning that any new TalkTalk users who require access to such content will first have to "opt-in" through a highly embarrassing call to customer services."

It's hardly "highly embarrassing" to ask them to remove a filter.

If they do go that route though, and as the article claims, ask you to opt-out once a year, then they'll simply lose customers to ISPs that don't hassle their customers.

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Re:London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic... by mike-cardwell on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:21PM (#3972029)
"It's hardly "highly embarrassing" to ask them to remove a filter."

I completely disagree. Many people would be very embarrassed phoning up to have an adult content filter removed. You can argue that they shouldn't be, but that's a different thing altogether.

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