Mick Hartley

Even train companies are now busy censoring wrongthink. From the Telegraph:

The website of a gender-critical group was blocked on a train’s Wi-Fi network for being linked to “terrorism and hate”, it has emerged.

Sex Matters, which campaigns against the adoption of gender ideology and argues that biological sex is a reality, had its web page blocked by Great Western Railway.

Those attempting to access the site, which raises concerns about gender reassignment surgery as well as about men in women’s prisons, hospital wards and sporting events, received a message that stated: “The domain is blocked by GWR because it’s associated with the terrorism and hate category.”

Helen Joyce, the author of best-selling gender-critical work Trans and a director of Sex Matters, said: “Why does GWR classify a human rights organisation as so dangerous that travellers have to be protected from accessing its website? Sex Matters stands up for women’s single-sex spaces, child safeguarding and freedom of belief and speech. What is there to object to about that?”

It is understood that the policing of sites that passengers are allowed to access is managed for GWR by an outside provider that uses AI to scan websites and block them if they fall foul of a number of criteria, namely hacking, adult content, terrorism or hate.

GWR said Sex Matters was blocked because AI incorrectly categorised it as adult content, possibly because the word “sex” was used repeatedly. However, passengers were notified that they were being denied access to it because it was “associated with the terrorism and hate category”.

So, having been caught out, it looks like GWR simply lied, making out that it was all just a silly mistake over the word  "sex".

A GWR spokesman said: “Like other providers, our on-board Wi-Fi uses independent content filtering to avoid inappropriate use of our services. We have asked our supplier to review the tagging of this site to ensure it has been correctly categorised.”