Online pornography to be blocked by default, (UK) PM announces

[Flying Mint Bunny!]

Story is a few days old, but i've only just come across it and i'm shocked.

I don't see at all why it's necessary to automatically block porn for everyone when people who need it blocked can do it anyway.   

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.

Mr Cameron warned in a speech that access to online pornography was "corroding childhood".

The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers.

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.

He told the BBC he expected a "row" with service providers who, he said in his speech, were "not doing enough to take responsibility" despite having a "moral duty" to do so. He also warned he could have to "force action" by changing the law and that, if there were "technical obstacles", firms should use their "greatest brains" to overcome them.

In his speech, Mr Cameron said family-friendly filters would be automatically selected for all new customers by the end of the year - although they could choose to switch them off.

And millions of existing computer users would be contacted by their internet providers and told they must decide whether to use or not use "family-friendly filters" to restrict adult material.

The filters would apply to all devices linked to the affected home Wi-Fi network and across the public Wi-Fi network "wherever children are likely to be present".

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.

The UK's biggest internet service providers have agreed to the filters scheme meaning it should cover 95% of homes.

From here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

[kefkaownsall]

well at least it's clicking nand not calling the isp but what I find silly is kids can get porn just by looking at the family paper

[Sleepy]

Well, this is fucking stupid. If you want certain sites to be blocked, it's your responsibility to block them. People shouldn't have to ask to have the filter turned off.

[ironbite]

BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!  WE'RE DOING THIS FOR THE CHILDREN!

Ironbite-THE CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILDREN!

[Canadian Mojo]

Mr. Cameron I'm not 12 and you're not my mother so why don't you fuck off?

[PosthumanHeresy]

In other news, Britain looks to rebrand itself as "China West".

[Witchyjoshy]

Britain is suddenly losing its position as "My Top Place To Visit That Isn't The USA"

[Stormwarden]

I thought they had already stopped that nonsense, when they realized the myriad of problems in implementing it.

[dpareja]

I thought they had already stopped that nonsense, when they realized the myriad of problems in implementing it.

Silly, don't you know that the UK is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy? Parliament can do whatever it likes and everyone else just has to suck it up and do as they say!

[Dakota Bob]

Isn't this something that a VPN can fix?

[ironbite]

I thought they had already stopped that nonsense, when they realized the myriad of problems in implementing it.

That was Australia.

[Katsuro]

Isn't this something that a VPN can fix?

As far as I'm aware - yes.

It once again shows that those in power have no fucking clue how anything actually works.

[Sixth Monarchist]

Britain is suddenly losing its position as "My Top Place To Visit That Isn't The USA"

With all due respect, it shouldn't have been there in the first place. Anyway, this problem has arisen for several simple reasons:

1. Distraction from the ongoing Lynton Crosby scandal.
2. Convenient pandering to the Daily Mail.
3. They've been trying this for a couple of years now, and this is just the latest and loudest push.
4. Convenient pandering to the Christian right.

[Barbarella]

I'm sure there will be an outcry....I can't see hordes of horny Brits doing nothing about it.

These relics of the old age know their days are numbered! This the the New Age...the LIBERAL age! These backlashes are just the last big gasp! The old ways are OV-AH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE

Have any ever considered why all these regressive reactionary backlashes are happening so virulently & brazenly, these days? Why all this jazz with the Religious Right, Islamofundies, Greek Fascist Nazi Wannabees, stupid British PMs? THEY KNOW THEIR TIME IS SHORT!

In short, just as a medicated zit gets worse before it's healed (and the gunk purging forth), the zit of Regressivism on Gaia's face gets worse after the medication of Progressivism is applied. They come out in the open & they are better dealt with by the Progressives.

Things may get worse before they get better but...EVENTUALLY...it turns out fine in the end. It always does.

Sure, I may be ridiculed for my spiritual beliefs, idealism & striving for that silver lining....but I'm a dreamer & I don't want to die, to be emotionally crushed, to not have a reason to live. I'm I'm a fool then so be it!

It ain't over til it's over!

[Søren]

In short, just as a medicated zit gets worse before it's healed (and the gunk purging forth), the zit of Regressivism on Gaia's face gets worse after the medication of Progressivism is applied.

Ew