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UK city council censor occult websites
Birmingham’s City Council has just installed the “fabulous” Bluecoat web filtering software which allows Christians and Moslems to view websites relating to their religion but filters out sites dealing with “witchcraft or Satanism” and “occult practices, atheistic views, voodoo rituals or any other form of mysticism”.
The little known Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 specifically forbids any kind of religious discrimination in the workplace within the UK, and gives adherents of even tiny minority religions the same rights as mainstream ones. The National Secular Society is currently investigating the option of legal action.
It strikes us here that this is probably not an isolated case, so we would welcome comments about any other workplace computer system that implements equally misguided and illegal censorship policies. If you are aware of any such at your place of work, local library, or other such system, you should consider contacting the National Secular Society and/or your Trade Union representative.
We cannot allow such censorship to flourish. And in the UK the law is on our side, unlike many other places. Let’s use it.
More info at the BBC
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