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The European Union has put its foot down and said that ISPs and mobile networks that block advertisements and pornography are in breach of rules published by BEREC – the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications. Currently, the EU allows network-level content blocking for three reasons: for security purposes, to comply with a nation state’s laws, or to manage network traffic. Opt-out content filtering – as is done by UK ISPs Sky and BT in order to prevent anyone underage viewing adult material – doesn’t fall into this category, as there’s “no clear legal framework in UK legislation”. Neither does network-level advert blocking where…

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