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The idea of making online porn an “opt-in” luxury has been binned, with government ministers saying there simply isn’t enough public enthusiasm to support a default ISP block on all adult material.
The results of the public consultation on the plan to implement an ISP-level porn block showed that just 35 per cent of parents wanted an automatic block on all porn content, while only 3,500 people bothered seeking out and filling in the anti-porn consultation’s questions.
The government will instead ask ISPs to encourage users to activate parental controls, although if the above stats are any indication, it’s unlikely many people will bother. Too busy wanking.
The report was also rather positive in terms of internet freedoms, warning instead of the risks of restricting content too aggressively, saying: “There is also a risk from ‘over-blocking’ – preventing access to websites which provide helpful information on sexual health or sexual identity, issues which young people may want information on but find difficult to talk to their parents about.” [BBC]
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Good (not that I watch porn of course)… Parents should learn how to control what their children see on the internet rather than relying on the Government to do the parenting for them
With a username like ‘Woody’ I really doubt you don’t watch a bit of the filth!
I agree, education is the key and if parents want to bring technology into the house then they should learn to use it fully.
Any man on the internet that says he doesn’t watch porn is either one of two things: Under 12 or Lying.
I wouldn’t describe it as apathy at all, the public consultation resulted in explicit and active rejection of the idea of a government mandated web filter, yet again with minimal oversight.
The biggest failure of this entire proposal is the base idea that you can filter out “things the parent doesn’t want the child to see” and allow “Things the parent thinks the child should be able to see” which I would hope is obvious to all of us here.
The British, where the parents believe that going through a slight social embarrassment is far worse than a depraving your child for life with flowing streams of triple X+ porno – excellent.
But a good call I don’t think everyone wanted more headaches in their life just because some people don’t deserve to have a child, those poor kids are done for ever way.
All the ISP needs to do is put a tick box on the “installation sign-up” that says active adult filter. Only the account holder can reverse the option etc.. there is no need to make it mandatory. Ontop of that make Router settings simpler so that blocking sites or keywords is easy to setup.
Some of my friends are reasonably tech savvy get confused inside a router, since most ISP`s coat them in their own crappy GUi anyway might as well make it simple to use for the non-tech types.. no?
I agree with Woody. Parents must take the lead in ensuring that kids do not fall in this trap. I installed a free app called Qustodio on my home computer a while back. I do need to watch what my son is up to when online and the app actually allows me to watch the profile pictures of accounts that he chats with. Google for it.