UK Conservatives Want to Block All Internet Porn

Published on 12-20-2010 02:00 AM

A conservative member of the British Parliament has made a move to block all pornography from reaching Internet subscribers in the UK.
The British government plans to meet with Internet service providers in the country next month to discuss the idea of censoring all Internet connections and requiring users to specifically request access to pornographic materials from their ISPs.
Not surprisingly, children are being trotted out as the reason for this mass censorship. Said Conservative MP Claire Perry to the Sunday Times, “We are not coming at this from an anti-porn perspective. We just want to make sure our children aren’t stumbling across things we don’t want them to see.”
It’s a slippery slope the British government will be navigating here. Who will decide precisely what porn is? Will ISPs be required to install bare-skin-detecting software, and if so, who will pay for that? Will instructional videos such as breast-feeding demonstrations be considered porn? And how will British subjects feel about adding their names to a list of people who specifically asked for access to pornography?

Even though the Internet Service Providers’ Association in the U.K. said it would be expensive and difficult to block porn, the British government is pressing for this action.
One other question: Wouldn’t it be better for parents to be the ones who decide what their children can and cannot watch rather than the government? Where are the parents in this equation?

What a mess. Let’s just hope this insanity doesn’t spread across the world. We can be slightly reassured knowing that European ISPs are slightly more radical than their stateside counterparts when it comes to censorship.

Source: Mashable

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5 Comments

merwais - 12-20-2010, 04:31 AM
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LoL
fix a remote on every UK resident @ss and control them.
UK = no freedom.

duke0102 - 12-20-2010, 10:35 AM
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That's crackers. Like most ambitious (and incredibly stupid) policies they try to create, this will just create go wrong in the end.

darkmawl - 12-20-2010, 01:26 PM
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There are plenty of ways for parent to prevent there kids to "stumble" on to porn. First of all do not let them use there computer unattended. Once they reach the age of around 11-12 they do not just "stumble" upon it.

There are also plenty of programs with will lend a hand into blocking porn content and websites and with most search engines you need to approve you 18 years old to access more mature content. If you kid does not understand he need to press "NO" that he is not 18 years old he should not be behind the computer unattended. If he presses "YES" on purpose while not being 18 years old you could not call it stumbling upon it.

Again evidence that governments seems to take more and more responsibilities of taking care of ones child.

brilman - 12-20-2010, 02:20 PM
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This has been going on for years. Parents ether don't know or don't want to be bothered with watching over there own kids behavior

Alot of what made PARTS of the net what it is. Like streaming video, pic size, chat, webcam software all came about from porn. Do ya think a bunch of people sat around thinking it would be great if you could watch your local news on your computer? wheres the motivation in that? Porn sells
I got a better idea: lets try to get all the salt out of the worlds seas or maybe make the color orange the new "world color".

Lets see someone try and block a 14 year old boy from finding porn

tesco - 12-21-2010, 01:59 AM
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This is stupid.
If you don't want your kids to see porn then don't let them on the internet unsupervised.
Don't just block it all from everybody, what the hell is wrong with these people.