This is getting old...
Why oh why oh why oh why are these people allowed?
Allowed to what I hear you cry!
Allowed to take positions of power.
Allowed to impose their views on the people at large.
Allowed to suppress individual choice.
Allowed to mandate unnecessary restrictions in the name of protection for individuals.
Allowed to get out of bed in the morning FFS!
So by allowing anything other than filtered http on port 80, ISPs would risk prosecution?
R.e. "It's like them saying that the letter 't' is now banned and, by law, all ISPs must filter out any traffic containing the aforementioned letter." If you haven't already, give 'Ella Minnow Pea' by Mark Dunn a read - the powers that be ban letters of the alphabet.