Online blocking of Pornography in the UK it was announced today - views on this

[malvachat]

Right on cue.
In to try and ruin an intelligent debate as usual with stupid and silly remarks.

 

[Skylarker]

Right on cue.
In to try and ruin an intelligent debate as usual with stupid and silly remarks.

Why don't you go watch your shitty overrated pretentious as f*** Clockwork Orange for the 600th time and pretend you're Alex and in the meantime if you don't care about my posts, stop wasting time and energy telling everyone how much you don't care about my posts.

 

[Rowntree]

I originally though that this was a good idea but we signed up to something like this with our Internet provider and loads of sites were blocked that had nothing to do with porn or anything else that should be blocked. Basically, if we wanted a fully working Internet we had to take the IP block off.

My problem with the imposed opting in for porn is that you will probably have to opt in just to not have half of the non-porn sites blocked but then there's a chance that you'll be added to some government perv list.

Our government controls us enough without us giving them further controls.

 

[123xyz]

This is a difficult one. On one hand I do believe boys are being given a false impression of adult sexuality and that that is potentially dangerous, not to mention being potentially profoundly bloody disappointing.

On the other side of the argument if parents are so stupid as to be unable to regulate their children's online activity themselves then whose fault is that?

Finally, and this is the clincher for me, government across the world are already far too interested in regulating the internet. Some are very successful as it is. China, for example.

What starts today as a simple ban on certain keywords can easily be extended, and that is without the idiocy of certain police officers' interpretation of what they think the new law might say. In the early days of the internet the people of the English town of Scunthorpe had great difficulty.

These matters are best left in the hands of parents.

I usually disagree strenuously with just about everything you say regarding politics , but I agree with you in this instance , Barley ...

 

[realitybites]

I originally though that this was a good idea but we signed up to something like this with our Internet provider and loads of sites were blocked that had nothing to do with porn or anything else that should be blocked. Basically, if we wanted a fully working Internet we had to take the IP block off.

My problem with the imposed opting in for porn is that you will probably have to opt in just to not have half of the non-porn sites blocked but then there's a chance that you'll be added to some government perv list.

Our government controls us enough without us giving them further controls.

 

[Peterb]

I originally though that this was a good idea but we signed up to something like this with our Internet provider and loads of sites were blocked that had nothing to do with porn or anything else that should be blocked. Basically, if we wanted a fully working Internet we had to take the IP block off.

My problem with the imposed opting in for porn is that you will probably have to opt in just to not have half of the non-porn sites blocked but then there's a chance that you'll be added to some government perv list.

Our government controls us enough without us giving them further controls.

Hey Rowntree, good to see you posting!
There is another perspective to consider here.
When I was a kid, a jazz mag was currency and very rare.
But nowadays, it is not uncommon for kids, under 10 even, to be accessing hard core porn regularly.
Whilst I am not prone to old man grumblings about how things were in my day, this does concern me (being a Dad).
As Johnny was inferring earlier, porn gives them preconceptions that do not prepare them but actually closes down their choices.
It is an issue and initially, the default setting of filters appears sensible.
I am not worried about the power of the state.
For me the power of big business is more worrying.