An individuals ability to receive and share information with world has grown exponentially due to the amalgamation of digital platforms that allow for the filtering of content on a level thought unimaginable only a generation ago.

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The truly paranoid may elect to use the 2.4 kernels' Netfilter4 facility (adding stateful packet filtering) or a commercial application-level proxy gateway.

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It said it was the role of the government to conduct filtering or censorship processes above the consumer level, but there was also no one size fits all technical solution to the problem.

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The report said that for more selective universities, such as those in the Russell Group who tend to ask for higher A-level grades, mathematics requirements can be a useful filtering tool.

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