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electronic voyeur
Profile Joined October 2012
United States133 Posts
July 23 2013 11:19 GMT
#1
In a https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-internet-and-pornography-prime-minister-calls-for-action]speech, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, has announced today that he plans to crack down on internet pornography and focus on making the internet a safer place for children and families.

Cameron’s plans for a more child-friendly internet experience include deals with four of the largest internet providers in England; regulations include “family-friendly filters” that would automatically block pornography and other adult material in millions of people’s homes, filtering material from all land lines, WiFi connected devices, and even in public areas where children are likely to be present. Families and individuals would have the ability to opt out of the filters; they would simply need to check a box on a form or inform their internet provider that they wish to have pornography unfiltered and available.

Other measures include stricter video restrictions and laws, pressure for search engines to offer more tools for barring content, and an increase in the legal action and monitoring abilities available to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and police when searching for sources of illegal material and in tracking down pedophiles. Cameron also called for the immediate blacklisting of certain “horrific” terms, meaning that they would not show any results when searched on Google or Bing.

Opponents of this proposal feels this is just another measure to enforce stricter filter of the internet and spy on the people and limit their access to information, using only child protection as a gateway excuse. It looks however that the UK government is supportive of this. What is your opinion?

Also report here http://rt.com/news/cameron-pornography-uk-ban-416/
Wordsmith
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom93 Posts
July 23 2013 11:19 GMT
#2
Bloody hell. What is UK cumming to!
luuk
Profile Joined May 2010
Austria386 Posts
July 23 2013 11:23 GMT
#3
On July 23 2013 20:19 Wordsmith wrote:
Bloody hell. What is UK cumming to!

well played. not to porn i guess!
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44216 Posts
July 23 2013 11:26 GMT
#4
...and now he's suddenly hated by the entire male population o.O

Although it says "By the end of next year, households will have to accept or decline an automatic porn filter." So this seems like people still have a choice to ignore this porn filter... although I'm sure it'll raise some eyebrows and narrow the eyes of spouses and significant others, if a person goes out of their way to say, "I want to be able to watch porn!"

"Search engines have been given until October to block illegal content with the government already looking at the legislative options to force action."

In other news, parents become less concerned with their kids and their kids' behaviors, because clearly the government is a better parent >.>
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
antilyon
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Brazil2546 Posts
July 23 2013 11:26 GMT
#5
Yeah, sure, good luck with that.
Caryc
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany330 Posts
July 23 2013 11:26 GMT
#6
people wont like that.
Alabasern
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States4005 Posts
July 23 2013 11:27 GMT
#7
What a waste of time...censoring the internet. Keep children off the internet.
Support your esport!
Tchado
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Jordan1831 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-23 11:28:47
July 23 2013 11:27 GMT
#8
This is not good , in my country , the fucking shieks and ignorant people protested to get porn banned , unfortunately they played the religion card and their campaign gained alot of support , the Jordanian government being the "democracy" that it is decided to respond to the people and ban porn on the basis of "protecting children , the Jordanian youth , and Jordanian values" , guess what happened ?

Months have gone since the passing of anti porn law here , and so far not a single porn site has been banned or blocked , but somehow a fuckton of blogs , newspapers , news websites , and any material that is critical of the government they can find is getting banned on continuous basis , and somehow the "people" didnt see this coming. LOL ! , and when the government was asked to respond , guess what they said ? "we are protecting the jordanian youth and values from such foul material"

Don't give any government power over the internet , NEVER , EVER.
spkim1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada286 Posts
July 23 2013 11:29 GMT
#9
Oh god, what do we do with these British ...

Cameron, mate, children are doing just fine. Why don't you concentrate on that economy of yours that seems to be not doing so well like the rest of the world's ...

Seriously, I wonder what kind of people are advising these politicians as to where they truly need to focus. Pornography ? That thing's been existing ever since video tapes have been founded ! What, do you expect to somehow put a halt to a hundred-years-history of pornography, you nutbrain ? That idea's worse than proliferation. Stop being stupid and start acting on things that really matter.
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" - Einstein, Albert
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24417 Posts
July 23 2013 11:29 GMT
#10
Yeah, "porn filter". I wonder what else that will check for.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
Big-t
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria1350 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-23 11:30:10
July 23 2013 11:29 GMT
#11
I don´t think he can go through with this^^

On July 23 2013 20:27 Alabasern wrote:
What a waste of time...censoring the internet. Keep children off the internet.


+1
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cujo2k
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada1044 Posts
July 23 2013 11:31 GMT
#12
A dangerous precedent that could restrict the freedom of its citizens(even with an opt-in). Could you imagine a teenage boy trying to convince his single mother to opt-in for porn? Awkward.

But perhaps more than anything else it would seem to be a large amount of wasteful resources would have go into this program increasing UK's debt needlessly.
THE ANSWER IS 288
Asha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom38201 Posts
July 23 2013 11:32 GMT
#13
Silly policy, and even then it should be an option to opt out of adult content, not having to opt in.

Just going to wait for the inevitable news stories when someone gets their hands of the data of which top politicians, community figures, and celebrities are opting in.
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
July 23 2013 11:33 GMT
#14
On July 23 2013 20:29 spkim1 wrote:
Oh god, what do we do with these British ...

Cameron, mate, children are doing just fine. Why don't you concentrate on that economy of yours that seems to be not doing so well like the rest of the world's ...

Seriously, I wonder what kind of people are advising these politicians as to where they truly need to focus. Pornography ? That thing's been existing ever since video tapes have been founded ! What, do you expect to somehow put a halt to a hundred-years-history of pornography, you nutbrain ? That idea's worse than proliferation. Stop being stupid and start acting on things that really matter.


You make it sound like it was easy to get a hold of porn before the internet. It wasn't, it was a complete mission. This really sucks for teenagers but also for guys in general, it would be so awkward to tell your spouse you wanted access to porn so you could have the odd cheeky look around lol.
Nimix
Profile Joined October 2011
France1809 Posts
July 23 2013 11:34 GMT
#15
That's clearly the main problem with the children nowadays rofl. Banning porn won't fix anything for children who have lazy parents that don't give a shit about them and just had children for the sake of it. They'll still turn out as whatever they are influenced to be by their environment, and I doubt jacking off porn has ever influenced anyone's personality much. I guess christians and religious people in general feel good at least. yay.
Voyage
Profile Joined May 2013
Germany71 Posts
July 23 2013 11:35 GMT
#16
Why Opt Out and not Opt In?
Also aren't there plenty of options you can take to filter this already?
Foblos
Profile Joined September 2011
United States426 Posts
July 23 2013 11:36 GMT
#17
I don't see the problem. I wouldn't want my kids to have the chance to happen across porn when they aren't looking at it, and I've read numerous studies about how porn can sabotage relationships. The PM is indeed protecting families and youth. They aren't "censoring the internet" as some of you have said, because you can opt in to porn. If you want to do something, you shouldn't be ashamed about it and if you are perhaps that is an indication that you should reassess it.
But at what cost ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
peidongyang
Profile Joined January 2009
Canada2084 Posts
July 23 2013 11:36 GMT
#18
Im guessing RIP hotel porn?
the throws never bothered me anyway
Maxie
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden2653 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-07-23 11:39:04
July 23 2013 11:38 GMT
#19
Sure, if it's easy to disable it (like, log in on your ISP:s website, check box). If it requires you to call someone and say "uhm, yeah, I want porn" then it's bad.

On July 23 2013 20:36 peidongyang wrote:
Im guessing RIP hotel porn?


The hotel can just enable it.
Fleuria
Profile Joined April 2011
England466 Posts
July 23 2013 11:38 GMT
#20
The worse thing about this is theres already a system in place where the parents can phone up to block it, guess its just down to them being lazy.

Anyway if this gets through it will be protested to fuck as it means they will pretty much just be able to ban anything they see unfit.
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