Sir, – Further to Ulric Kenny's letter (December 30th) on UPC's decision to enable blocking of some internet content from March (News, December 27th), giving parents the option of filtering internet content for their children may sound like a good idea and certainly has its advantages when dealing with young children accessing explicit content.
However, as with most internet access issues, from piracy to censorship, technology is well ahead of the companies’ plans. With the installation of a simple and widely available TOR or VPN programme and not even UPC will know what is being accessed from a given computer. If TOR allows Chinese dissidents to avoid big brother, I am quite sure UPC will be of little concern.
Educating children around the issues involved with certain content would be of greater value. – Yours, etc,
GEARÓID Ó LOINGSIGH,
Bogotá,
Colombia.