ExtraTorrent | UK Porn Filter Causes Problems Again

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Famous Cameron’s effort to keep the little British away from the evil Internet keeps failing on many different levels. This time online filter (which meant to detect pornography and adult content) inadvertently blocked a game update because the latter contained letters “s-e-x” standing together.
 

A popular strategy game “The League of Legends” was mistakenly blocked by British Internet filter because its update unintentionally included the letters “s-e-x” standing together in its web address. In result, the update failed on many machines with “file not found” error. Such errors are normally created by missing files or broken updates on the part of the developers. The issue was first mentioned on social news website Reddit: it explained that files named VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj and XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj triggered a block at the ISP level.

Anyway, the porn filter, which already seems to cause more trouble than it is worth, has been rendered useless as users prefer to just opt out of it. According to the local media, few people use the filters: only those who have ordered a new service since the legislation was enforced, and who said “yes” to filtering when they signed up. Overwhelming majority refused to do so.