Smartphone companies blocking feminism and....satire?

Its the ay after Orwell Day, and news comes in that Smartphones are not just blocking Porn - now they are blocking blocking Feminist content - and Satire, of all things. Torygraph:

Mobile provider 3UK is blocking access to political satire as "mature content"; Orange is preventing access to feminist articles as "mature content" through its automatically applied Orange Safeguard service; several providers are blocking perfectly legitimate sites like Pink News because they deal with gay issues, or Channel 4's excellent Embarrassing Bodies website, because of the graphic discussion of body parts and sexuality.

Porn I can understand, and I can see how some sites may look pornographic, as they may have Bad Words in them (literally, in the case of the Scunthorpe Gazette) and I know some of the more radical feminists can cause furores - and even get taken down by their newspapers (well, one did, anyway), but Satire? The implication is clearly that Boat Rocking Ideas are Bad For You. Orwell would smile wryly...

As the Torygraph says:

There are two distinct issues here – the blanket blocks, which wall off certain parts of the internet, and the overzealous, stupidly risk-averse corporate definitions of what is too "mature" for under 18s to see.

Would you belive that Broadstuff is one of those publications that falls foul of some corporate websites (and not just the ones of companies we take pot shots at). Now I know we talk about racks and porn and that, but its strictly in the interests of strategic advice, you understand.. But the main issue we have here is the risk averse corporately cleansed content:

The phone companies are run by risk-averse, bloodless suits who just don't want trouble. It's much easier for them to just block anything even mildly offensive than to deal with the "moral outrage". That keeps the suits safe from a Daily Mail article, but ignores the fact that exactly the people who probably need to be able to browse sites privately, without leaving an internet history that mum or dad might find on a shared family machine, are teenagers who are looking at mature content like advice for homosexuals, feminist blogs or sexual health advice.

But Satire? Really? Are the Professionally Offended on the march now?

Still, if you look at the pops we have taken at Planet Mobile over the years, maybe we're on the hit list right now....anyway when they start blocking technology satire like wot we sometimes write, you'll let us know, right?