UK Internet Providers to Introduce Porn Block

[wild9]

Seems that once again, Prime Minister David Cameron jumps on the moral bandwagon. Pity it doesn't extend to cheaper fuel and other essential, less tax and liveable wages but still, give or take a few decades and a miracle or two.. Forget all that; let's just 'defend the people' with one hand in advance of smacking them in the face just before Christmas with another.

With him out the way, I do feel minors have too easy an access to adult content on the Internet. I also feel the best filter is the human firewall: Mom, Dad or other responsible guardian. I do not mind opting into this system at all, but whether it will work or not really does remain to be seen. Show me any automated system that has worked thus far. My view is that even with the best filtering software, the moment they go online kids are vulnerable.

Let's take games. How many kids do you know play online games? I meet many of them, playing adult-orientated content. Any game that has a chat-box can circumvent filtering software, and some of the content I've seen..it just makes me wonder what the child's parents would think if they actually saw it. Then there is the issue of kids given admin rights, and having to deal with issues they have neither the maturity nor experience to deal with in the first place. How do they get these rights? Well, on some servers they throw money at the site owner..

So I think any such system would be fraught with technical issues and vulnerabilities, the likes of which many children would be able to exploit to their advantage.

It also makes me smile when I read about the aforementioned PM taking a 'stand' on this issue, because he makes it sound as if the Internet is the only potential danger to their well-being. All I can say is, switch on the TV, including the BBC channels. It's not just the Internet that's being used a means of conditioning them, and not just after the watershed..

 

[wild9]

Sorry about the double post folks. For some reason the comments don't appear to be updating (using Opera 11).

 

[SoiledBottom]

braveheart quote as a joke....joke was bad....and your funnybone is broken

 

[wild9]

[citation][nom]WhysoBluepandabear[/nom]People demonizing the naked, natural body....It's really not a big deal - let's be honest with ourselves, the reason there are 6 billion+ people in this world, is because A LOT of people fucked. Yup, so deal with it and stop acting like it's terrible, wrong and bad. Kids are little people with a lot of hormones. How long do you seriously think you can keep that suppression up?[/citation]

Well, I don't think the issue is the naked body so much as what adults choose to do with it. I learned from an early age what went where, but that is a far cry from some of the stuff on the Internet; that stuff is for adults not kids for good reason.

 

[eddieroolz]

"Protecting the children" is the reason people always cite when advocating for censorship, but the "children" are the ones that sell themselves out with flashy clothes, sexing and whatnot.

 

[chumly]

The only thing that comes to mind:
http/www.southparkstudios.com/clips/183605/the-hottest-porno-ever-made

 

[killerclick]

So when you sign up with a new ISP, you'll basically have to declare whether you're a porn watcher or not. Nice, I'm betting all the names of the opt-outers will be in a database somewhere to be used when needed.

 

[xenorm]

Ahem, where do I sign for the porn?

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]leafblower29[/nom]I don't recall children liking pornography. What's the point of this?[/citation]

Are you kidding? When I was in 2nd grade we had kids passing porn mags around the bus.

 

[13thmonkey]

I read this as therer being a giant block of porn somewhere, even though I read about the story yesterday.
Soiledbottom - that mademe laugh, thought it was 300 though.

 

[Guest]

I don't understand how you can have sex from the age of 16, can't look at it until you are 18 but get taught about it at school when you are 10. I really don't think banning porn online is going to fix things.

 

[Goldengoose]

Well this is going to get awkward when i have to ask my housemate to ring our ISP to allow me to watch porn...

 

[damianrobertjones]

Windows ship with parental controls so maybe a country wide info shot for that?

 

[deksman]

It's just one more idiotic decision in a row of moronic ideas.
'Protecting the children'... lol... that argument has no ground and is a lame excuse if anything.
It's the parents duty to expose (or not) and protect (or not) their children to/from certain material.
It's one thing to reserve an option for parents/users to block pornographic material if they choose to, but this shouldn't be done by default.

In my opinion, children should be taught about sex at a young age, so that they before hit puberty they know (to a degree) what might happen.

But nooo... the government has to be thrown into the mix and they just HAVE to pass idiotic ideas whilst ignoring the reality of the situation that children as such will probably find ways to get to porn (or other content) one way or the other.

What exactly are they trying to do?
Raise, 'perfect' children?
'Perfect' according to whom?
Human history is filled with examples where suppression can (but it also may not) lead to psychological issues and instabilities.
This won't solve anything.
It will just make certain adults lives that much more miserable because they will probably have to jump through hoops to get to the content in question.

Morons...

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]gnookergi[/nom]Are you kidding? When I was in 2nd grade we had kids passing porn mags around the bus.[/citation]
Maybe this means a return to the good old days, no more porn websites and back to smutty magazines with the pages stuck together.

 

[tical2399]

[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]Not a bad idea for parents who want to prevent little children from seeing inappropriate material. Better still would be parents who actually monitor their little children's activities.[/citation]


Yea. cause parents don't actually have to go to work or leave the house for any reason.

 

[happyballz]

First, this will never stop porn (think foreign websites). And second, anything that says "its for the children" and where you have to opt-in to GET full access is invasion of privacy and rights. This program should be opt-in IF YOU WANT IT not the other way around. British are getting closer to swastika-government every year. Total waste of money and unnecessary laws form the gov. to benefit small amount of "mothers" that have nothing better to do.

 

[del35]

A very English way of pushing Victorian values with the pretext of safeguarding children-- as if children were the ones watching porno and not grown ups. One lesson should have been learned: you cant legislate away human. These filters will likely make pornography more desirable to the very people they are trying to protect, very much in the same way that children are drawn to cigarettes as a form of rebellion.

 

[mac_angel]

sex is natural. I'd rather my son accidentally find that online than some of the things that the news puts on TV now days.

 

[Guest]

Is it really that hard for Parents to monitor this stuff? It really pisses me off when these leagues of angry mother bitch and moan when its:

A: Their property and children, yet everyone else has to fix it.
B: There are so many products to do this for you, let alone professionals you can hire to help.

If you can't be assed putting some kind of safe guards in place for your kids at home don't get a computer. At least put a password on it or put it somewhere in plain view.

I mean would you buy a bike for your kid but no helmet?