The company I work for has just introduced a new scheme called 'Blue Pumpkin' a monitoring service ran from Belgium of all places! which lets a centre over there have access to see what we are doing here with our phones.
If for any reason you aren't in 'ready' you have to enter a reason code for being in 'not ready' else they'll phone you up and say "your in not ready, what are you doing?" hah!
I did this on purpose to wind them up, saying "ahh sorry, the 'activity' button on my phone sticks a lot, so I can't tell if I have made a selection or not" which flumoxed them completely, and the girl from their centre said "ummm right, I'll get back to you on that" that was 2 days ago
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There's a lot of port blocking going on with *some* ISP's, which they do in order to cut down the amount of file sharing with some of the well known peer-to-peer file sharing programs.
Of course there are ways round *most* things that get blocked, it's just like copy protection on CD's/DVD's/software, people will try and include all manner of devices to stop you copying, but you know minutes after an official release there will be a cracked version around for all to grab, one cracking team boasted in their .nfo file "released 09:00 21.09.03, cracked 09:07 21.09.03"
Back to the point though, What exactly is this content that is deemed 'illegal' ?
It's not very clear is it, I mean certain content I think should be blocked, filtered and whatnot. I very much doubt anyone here would like to see the free reign on child porn online? You'd want that blocked straight off, I know I would.
I remember a few of the very first things I searched for when I first went online back in 1995
(after finding a pay porn site where a woman would do things I asked via a little chat window, fuck me that opened my eyes, until I went to Amsterdam in 2002 and well, that's another story 
) were, how to make bombs (I wanted to know just out of curiosity) and video hacking and copying methods, which up until I got online, was really hard to find any information on, short of ringing up repair centre's and asking to speak to techie's...
I think the government doesn't like it when we can access anything we like, I'm sure they'd try and levy some kind of Internet Tax on anything they could to make it harder for people to access music and movies and the likes, that they currently can, for free.
Reminds me of a
KRS-One lyric: