The Register tends to use a distinctly UK style of criticism - much like Private Eye at times. It tends not to translate particularly well to no-UK readers who think it is just being frivilous or outrageously sensationalist.

However, there is a serious point here. This 'filter' is being sold as protecting everyone (expecially the children) by most reporting sources. The Register has done some more in-depth analysis and found that far from simply blocking porn (which some people do want) it blocks additional legitimately use-able systems like proxies and anonimizers which were not mentioned in the original debate and show a distinct 'creep' in the implementation.

It is not clear you can actually use proxies to access blocked IPs as the whole point of the filtering is to stop access to proxies (as well as porn). This is the creep and the point I submitted the article.

I'm not sure what an 'infowar' is (I've not google'd that yet) so I'm not sure if that is a real thing or not. But feature creep and ever increasing control of internet (and hence information) access is real and something which should be discussed and debated much more intelligently and maturely than it is currently being.