Maria Miller is ready to speak on behalf of the entire country, claiming that the worldwide web must be censored. The country’s culture secretary is certain that nobody actually wants to use the web for porn, and it’s awful that people can say whatever they like.

Miller has summoned such online giants as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo to a Whitehall summit where they are going to talk about the ways to censor the web so it fits with what the secretary wants. The latter claims that the tech giants fail to do enough to prevent the Internet from drowning in a tide of porn and free speech. So, Miller is ready to tell them that the corporations have to consider urgent measures to limit access to harmful content before the authorities insist on implementing filters to do so.

The culture secretary is also planning stricter controls on what is allowed on public Wi-Fi, along with a new industry-wide protocol on how complaints are addressed. She also asked Vodafone and O2 to attend the talks so that ISPs could censor such content from mobiles.

Miller explained that her idea to mirror Saudi Arabia style online filtering came after Mark Bridger was given a life sentence for the murder of 5-year-old April Jones a few days ago. Apparently, she believes that the crime was committed because he had collected a “library of sickening images from the web”. Miller told Google that with all these horrific events happening everyone in the United Kingdom she would demand that the authorities curtail their freedoms to watch people have sex or say what they like on the Internet.

Apparently, the April Jones case would mean that all right minded citizens want file-sharing websites censored as well, as if it could somehow save the children. Maybe the culture secretary believes that greater efforts need to be made to prevent the sharing of harmful content. She claimed that more effective technological solutions have to be developed in order to minimize the harm done to businesses and consumers.

In the meanwhile, Google plays a key role in terms of how people access material on the Internet and has serious public responsibilities as a result of this position. So, Miller is going to give the online industry a stern talking to when she meets them in June.