• [UK] Pornography to be blocked by internet service providers unless users opt in.
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Alright, well, I need to figure out how the fuck the Internet works soon, because I'm like a brain-damaged Spider Monkey with this. Step one: the fuck's a proxy oh god I am not good at computer
There will be ways around it, i could just secretly turn the filter off seeing as i swear i'm the one in this house who looks at it. That or a proxy.
"If you want to tug your dick you better tell your government"
This will achieve literally nothing and just waste more tax-payers money while economy is in the shitter. Wonder how long it'll be before the UK finally gets a decent government
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;32727314]"If you want to tug your dick you better tell your government"[/QUOTE] Sad truth
[QUOTE=Gareth;32727400]This will achieve literally nothing and just waste more tax-payers money while economy is in the shitter. Wonder how long it'll be before the UK finally gets a decent government[/QUOTE] The minute the torries are voted out.
Nothing is being done about violence, this is stupid.
It's not a terrible idea. Parents who don't want their kids to watch porn will remain opted in, parents who don't care will opt out. It's not like they don't have the choice. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] Sure you could say there are more important things to focus on, and I agree Cameron is far from a top-notch prime minister but this isn't that big of a deal.
The BBC just showed a report about this on the news, and it seems that either them or the Guardian have gotten the wrong end of the stick. Apparently new subscribers will be shown a page during the registration offering to turn it on for them, and older subscribers can turn it on as they can now. They specificity mention the opt-in to porn system and they say that no ISP in the country wants to do it. Nothing like conflicting information. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Conspiracy;32727496]It's not a terrible idea. Parents who don't want their kids to watch porn will remain opted in, parents who don't care will opt out. It's not like they don't have the choice. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] Sure you could say there are more important things to focus on, and I agree Cameron is far from a top-notch prime minister but he isn't exactly imposing these rules; he just agreed with the idea.[/QUOTE] Its internet censorship, which is almost always bad. Especially when the current government has spent the first part of this year making it known that they object to filtering and blocking the internet. The actual idea is good, but the apparent opt-out instead of opt-in nature is the problem with it.
[QUOTE=Jsm;32727507] Its internet censorship, which is bad no matter what. Especially when the current government has spent the first part of this year making it known that they object to filtering and blocking the internet.[/QUOTE] And I would agree with you if people didn't have the choice to opt out of the censorship, but they do. So long as that remains it's not a breach of rights per se.
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32727527]And I would agree with you if people didn't have the choice to opt out of the censorship, but they do. So long as that remains it's not a breach of rights per se.[/QUOTE] I see what you mean, but I just feel that if people want to block porn they should have to opt in. Which it seems (if the BBC are to believed) is actually the case.
Lol, Does that mean Facepunch is being blocked then? NO EXACTLY SO LETS IGNORE DAVID CAMERON. And Facepunch has a thread with 89 Pages of PORN. -- Keep it up :)
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32727527]And I would agree with you if people didn't have the choice to opt out of the censorship, but they do. So long as that remains it's not a breach of rights per se.[/QUOTE] Slippery slope. "Pay us 10,000 dollar every year or we cut off your rights" hey, it's an opt-out method so it's not a breach of rights.
This is a terrible idea. Kids are driven by two things when they're at the age to look at tits: curiosity and hormones, both rampant. This will stop nothing. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15252128]However, the BBC paints a different picture regarding the whole affair.[/url] They're saying you have to opt-[I]in[/I], not out of the ban.
The real issue I see here is fucking parents being too fucking lazy to care for their own god damn children so decide to go piss everyone else so they can go back to hiring a nanny and going out for dinner. Cunts.
Guys, calm the fuck down, all it is is a page when you SIGN-UP with an ISP asking you to opt-in to adult materials. If you already have an ISP, you're fine. Unless you sign up with a new ISP, THEN you're fucked.
In Britain they support protected sex at a young age, so what the fuck is the point of blocking some pornographic websites? This is god damn stupid.
I'm with virgin and they're easily the best UK providers (albeit bad customer service and some down time) so there's no reason to switch, but I don't really care, I'll just ring up and ask them to unblock it, if you're 15+ just ask your parents to do it for you, it's not as if watching porn is [i]that[/i] taboo, I'm 100% certain that if you're 15 years old or older your parents know you watch porn and masterbate, whether it be online or not, your parents probably masterbate too, when I CTRL+H on my parent's laptop I see all kinds of weird shit, hell I even told my dad to use redtube, youporn and xhamster for porn because they're safer porn websites after he kept getting trojans. Went a little off-topic here, just don't be so embarrassed and ring yourself or get your parents to.
Shit, I'm just going to say that the block blocks sites that I need for college, just in case this is an automatic thing.
[QUOTE=myalt22;32727767]Shit, I'm just going to say that the block blocks sites that I need for college, just in case this is an automatic thing.[/QUOTE] If they actually try and block porn they'll have to block most sites on the net, there has to be a mention of some kind of pornography on almost any website with a community aspect to it, be it image, in text, or animated.
Couldn't care really.
They tried the same thing here in Australia. It was later dropped because it wasn't possible.
[QUOTE=-n3o-;32727995]They tried the same thing here in Australia. It was later dropped because it wasn't possible.[/QUOTE] Hopefully they drop it here, too. [editline]11th October 2011[/editline] I need my porn god dammit!
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[quote=article]we should look to put 'the brakes on an unthinking drift towards ever-greater commercialisation and sexualisation'.[/quote] What a great way of putting it hahahahaha Fucking politicians I'm with Virgin and I'm the account holder so looks like my pron won't be affected although I completely disagree with internet censorship and I think that this movement is just a profit making exercise so the government can give ambiguous funding to private organisations for "protecting our children" and so that they can develop a better business relationship with them. This is some really moronic shit, what will they classify as porn/adult sites? Will they use this infrastructure to ban other things that may be distasteful to them but perhaps not others? What happened to parenting being the responsibility of the parents? I feel that the role of government should be to perhaps provide advice on such matters but not to force silly measures like this on everybody just because some irresponsible cunts can't install parental controls software or watch what their kid is visiting on the internet.
[QUOTE=Takuat;32726917]What is this meant to achieve? Also I'm with Virgin so I'm fucked.[/QUOTE] :v:
[QUOTE=-n3o-;32727995]They tried the same thing here in Australia. It was later dropped because it wasn't possible.[/QUOTE] Problem here is that in the UK we have systems in place already.
>Christian charity's review Stopped reading right there and there will always be ways around this proxys and such. Silly Cameron
why the fuck did they need the 'opinion' of a 'christian charity'?
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