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A Chrome browser extension called Go Away Cameron, which can circumvent the "porn filters" being implemented by ISPs has been launched.

The news comes just a week after BT announced that new customers would have porn filters automatically switched on when customers subscribe to its broadband service. BT and the other major UK ISPs have signed up to the government's campaign to protect children from pornography, which will see 95 percent of houses connected to the internet to have to choose whether to switch on filters by the end of 2014. Sky and TalkTalk have already introduced a filter choice at the point of sign-up and Virgin Media will do the same soon.


The filters have already been shown to be ineffective, since they are letting hardcore material slip through the net while preventing access to sex education, addiction and women's abuse charity sites, as Wired.co.uk outlined last week.

Go Away Cameron is a Chrome browser extension designed to bypass the UK's "censorship" of the web using a proxy to circumvent the filters. Users simply install the extension and can then browse all of the pornography and sex education sites they like. The Singaporean creator is also responsible for a variant in his homeland called Getgom.com. It goes to show how pointless these filters are.