The website of a gender critical group was blocked on a train’s onboard WiFi network, after it was flagged for being linked to ‘terrorism and hate’.
Sex Matters, a self-described ‘human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy’, campaigns for ‘easy and safe’ conversations about what it calls ‘ordinary truth’ biology.
But the group’s website was blocked on a Great Western Railway train ‘because it’s associated with the terrorism and hate category’, a page blocker said.
GWR said that the page was blocked because AI scanners had deemed it ‘adult’ content, likely due to the repetition of the word ‘sex’.
It was not clear why the page was flagged for ‘terrorism and hate’.
A GWR spokesman told MailOnline: ‘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.’
They said the technology used to filter content is not set to filter gender-critical content.
