Mick Hartley

That case where Great Western Railway were found to be censoring a gender-critical website on their wi-fi wasn't a one-off, according to this Mail report:

Many internet users are being blocked from looking at gender-critical websites on public wi-fi, it can be revealed.

A Mail on Sunday investigation found that one in three networks are denying access to sites that raise legitimate questions related to trans issues….

It follows reports about Great Western Railway's onboard wi-fi blocking the website of human rights organisation Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about sex in law and policy. It had been flagged as being 'associated with terrorism and hate'.

Our reporters visited 25 venues with accessible public wi-fi and found that eight blocked one or more gender- critical websites.

At three branches of Pret A Manger across London, the Women's Rights Network and Transgender Trend's websites were blocked. Access to the latter was also blocked at the Science Museum in London, at retailer Uniqlo and on a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train.

The Sex Matters site could not be accessed at Victoria, King's Cross and Paddington train stations in London – and it was still impossible to visit it on Great Western Railway (GWR) trains….

Labour MP Rosie Duffield said: 'This is sinister and disturbing censorship. These firms must be doing well financially if they're prepared to lose the custom of women.'

Women's Rights Network's Claire Loneragan said: 'Pret let us access porn sites. We could access another to buy guns. So we question why there must be safeguarding around sex-based rights.'

Because it's wrongthink.