Pornography to be blocked by default in the UK

[Foxi4]

My problem with this line of thinking is that this is the parents' responsibility, not the state's. The government should not be censoring people's internet access (opt-out option or no) on the off chance that little Timmy might be exposed to naughty bits.

Exactly. This is a direct equivalent of banning alcohol from store shelves because they might give little Timmy naughty ideas (with the option of opting out of this restriction in which case you'd receive a super-secret brand on your forehead stating that you drink alcoholic beverages. Let's call it the scarlet letter "A").

If parents are technologically-illiterate then simply make it a formal duty of the ISP to inform users that they have the option to restrict their Internet if they want to protect their kids from stumbling upon content for mature audiences or promote the use of surveillance software that the parents themselves could use. Those programs are literally idiot-proof.

You can't ban the use of cuttlery just because a metaphorical crook might stab another person with a knife - that's just plain silly.

 

[jonthedit]

yeah because without adblock NOBODY knows what you do on the internet -.-

No need to get butt-hurt, It's your choice.
Both methods do the same thing, except when you use adblock or similar plugins/software they read the page first. (You can test this by receiving speed of a page without adblock and with adblock.)

Anyway...
Kinda find this ironic, I doubt it'll solve anything. If the targeted audience wants pr0n, and I mean REALLY WANTS TAT PRON!!!! They'll find a way around it.

So what did this really solve? More restrictions

 

[EzekielRage]

that wasnt butthurt, more sarcastic^^
i dont care if anyone reads my pages, firstly i got NOTHING to hide and secondly its the itnernet, EVERYBODY reads my fucking pages^^ and they should, i visit my own webcomic pages regularly. if the NSA or adblock or whoever reads this, like and share my comics page

but back to porn: prohibiting something NEVER solved ANYTHING. one might think people learned this by now...

 

[emigre]

I wonder if this is creeping sharia law or creeping Chinese style statism or a combination of both. In any case anyone was wondering this is the type of control and laws that liberalism/socialism brings.

Good God this post is stupid.

 

[Foxi4]

Good God this post is stupid.

#ShitGBATempSays?

 

[Gahars]

I wonder if this is creeping sharia law or creeping Chinese style statism or a combination of both. In any case anyone was wondering this is the type of control and laws that liberalism/socialism brings.

Spoiler: mfw someone actually wrote down this series of words and posted them in all seriousness

I don't know what's worse: Actually thinking "creeping sharia law" is a thing, or blaming this on "liberalism/socialism"... even though this is a measure introduced by the Conservative Party. They literally call themselves the Conservative Party. Come on here, buddy.

Not to say that these were the only two issues here, of course.

 

[Thanatos Telos]

#ShitGBATempSays?

Yep.

 

[Fishaman P]

A whole bunch of teenage boys are gonna be pissed.
One Direction will have to look up their gay pr0n while they're in the US.

 

[Hanks6]

the road to a police state. first porn, next 'anti-government' content.

 

[haxan]

for some reason i can get to porn sites without using any proxy stuff.......

 

[Amber Lamps]

I was hoping a long time ago that they made it near impossible for 10 year old kids to get access to pornography. This at least is a good start and heading in the right direction.

the US has way too large abundance of the stuff. I remember when it was scarce and you generally would still have to go in to a shop to get stuff. those days are long gone and there's too much of this about.

hopefully this will help cleanse uk kiddies and make them more proper and polite as they grow up. they deserve a good shot at that.

 

[Taleweaver]

hopefully this will help cleanse uk kiddies and make them more proper and polite as they grow up. they deserve a good shot at that.

That's implying that watching porn makes them somehow less proper and polite. Which is simply not true.

 

[Saturosias]

The first non-gaming news I've seen on the front page and it's... this? :3

 

[Gahars]

I was hoping a long time ago that they made it near impossible for 10 year old kids to get access to pornography. This at least is a good start and heading in the right direction.

"Impossible" - Because, before the internet, kids had absolutely no access to pornography whatsoever. Television, magazines, literature, lewd photography, taint paints, noodle doodles, none of these avenues ever existed at all. Good thing there's no such thing as proxies or anything, either.

Too bad parents can't just parent their children. Lord knows that'd be asking far too much.

the US has way too large abundance of the stuff. I remember when it was scarce and you generally would still have to go in to a shop to get stuff. those days are long gone and there's too much of this about.

hopefully this will help cleanse uk kiddies and make them more proper and polite as they grow up. they deserve a good shot at that. Because porn makes you improper and impolite, according to, uh... my feels?

Porn has never been scarce. Historically, it's always been one of the most throbbing thriving industries out there. Just because you were ignorant of it doesn't mean it wasn't there in an abundance of some sort or another.

Plus, of all the things to worry about corrupting our youth, depictions of people having sex take top priority? Really? How about we focus on issues that actually do damage - like the appallingly high rates of crime and poverty among the youth? I don't know about you, but those seem a wee bit more pressing to me.

Censoring and filtering the internet to "protect the children" from the "horrors" of pornography is like nuking a city to take care of the litter.

 

[kuwanger]

"Customers who do not click on either option - accepting or declining - will have filters activated by default, Tory MP Claire Perry, Mr Cameron's adviser on the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood, told the BBC."

Because apparently Mr Cameron needs help on how to further sexualize and commercialize childhood. What better way than to equate pornography and childhood? Or to sell pornography as "for the children". Oh, filter *out* pornography? Protect the "innocence" of childhood? I guess that leads to the point:

"Mr Cameron also called for some "horrific" internet search terms to be "blacklisted", meaning they would automatically bring up no results on websites such as Google or Bing."

Things like "kill" and "rape" and "how children are made". The only results to return with family-friendly filters is links to Disney. Because Disney is all about commercializing childhood and sexualizing childhood.

Yea, okay, I'm done with my rant. I honestly just don't understand.

 

[gamewitch]

I am not even British, but on this one David Cameron needs to piss off. It will just lead to more censorship by the government.

 

[DAZA]

You can imagine before they set this new situation up that everyone is going to be d/l all their favourite pictures for the memory bank lol. im 50/50 with this, fair enough they should block illegal child content but not block porn all together, it can cause all sorts of havoc and blocks out rights. why should we be on a list just because you want to look at adult content.

Takes away out right to freedom.... we all know no matter what you cant stop everything, many things have been tried before and comes back in other ways they can never win yet we suffer in between

 

[ferofax]

This is no different than restricting access to cupcakes because the current governing system doesn't like cupcakes. Assuming, of course, that people fap to cupcakes in various states of "unwrap". This also means un-baked cupcakes is tantamount to pedophilia, because the cupcakes aren't cooked yet.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

illegal content..RIIIGGGHT....

everyone knows that why they pushed for this so hard was because to block DMCA copyright infringing files..

it's ALWAYS been about the RIAA, CRIA, MPAA, and DMCA when it comes to internet censorship.

which is why they did this in the first place.

i'm sure people that opt-out will be "profiled" for future analyzation.

and other "undesirable" content [sites about how the UK government is a fucking wanker] will be filtered out with time.

sounds like this is SOPA but premature and will grow larger to it's original intended size with time

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I see this flying the same way it did in Australia. Like a lead filled balloon.