Censorship mission creep?

[andygates]

I'm hearing rumours that some UK ISPs (including BT Mobile) are blocking access to the Pirate Bay, claiming it's an IWF thing.  If they're true, this is a very bad thing.  Censoring is all vile, IMO, but censoring kiddy smut is at least defensible; blocking just TPB would be a triple-fail: extending IWF's mission from "stopping kiddy smut" to include "and protecting TimeWarnerSonyArseflakes' profit"; only blocking one torrent site out of hundreds; and failing to act on the torrents themselves (tip: google "my favourite telly show" filetype:torrent).

I'm hoping this is scuttlebutt that will blow over in a day or two.