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The PM was previously rumoured to be planning a crackdown on porn in homes where children are present, now he’s come out and said it. ISPs will have to block porn by default for households who have kids.
Despite backing down on a broad “opt-in” system last week, this new move will happen. Cameron said about his new porn fury: “To me, the fact that so many children have visited the darkest corners of the internet is not just a matter of concern — it is utterly appalling. A silent attack on innocence is under way in our country today and I am determined that we fight it with all we’ve got.”
The plan will see users who sign up to new ISP contracts and buy new computers asked if there are children in the house before connecting to the internet. Say “yes” and you’ll have all your porn switched off for you. Cameron doesn’t go into any further detail about how this on/off decision process will be policed, although the PM will ask ISPs to somehow check an adult is making this decision. [Telegraph]
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Bullshit rhetoric, utterly unworkable, this will never happen.
Since when has the fact that an idea is bullshit and utterly unworkable stopped the Tories from trying to implement it?
Piss off Cameron, you give me the shits.
Rule 34 me that!
LOL!
The plan will see parents asked if there are children in the house before getting down to some bedtime nookie. Say “yes” and they’ll have their sex drive switched off for them.
So he’s going to visit every home in the country?
Sorry, missread the headline thought he was promising a blockhead in family homes.
Cameron just did a U-turn there
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/david_cameron_filtering_smut_online/
Hello dictatorship!
I came here for the “David Cameron Angry Porn”
so what would they base this filtering on? How will they differentiate between porn and art? If they block by website, how will they cater for the vast amounts of nakedness available on Tumblr for example. Too lax and the filter is pointless, too tight and it is a major hindrance, blocking you from sites like susSEX.ac.uk (university of Sussex) or natgeo
Teeheehee…. You said SEX!
Maybe this is just a backhanded way of cutting local councils’ budgets? I mean Scunthorpe council isn’t going to need any web developers after this…
Teeheehee… You said COUNCIL!
heheheh – COUNCIL – hehehe
Why doesn’t he nanny state some more bad parents, Jesus Christ.
So he’ll also have to block all proxy servers, define “pornography” in a legal sense (not at all easy to do), and stop OpenDNS/Google DNS etc.
Yep, that’ll all happen……
Anyone else get the feeling Cameron’s missus/mother filmed some softcore stuff in their youth that he stumbled across one night and has been traumatised by the fact its so easy to find?
Nope. I get the feeling that he is trying to appease a big chunk of the more conservative Brits without annoying the more liberal brits too much. Basically, he is doing politics as it now exists in Britain.
Do you mean conservative Brits, or Conservative Brits? Because frankly half the party are dirty old men to begin with, I can’t see them wanting to do without their heavily thatcher-related porn.
By the same mark, do you mean liberal Brits, or Liberal Brits? Because I don’t think he could piss either off much more than he already has…
Lower case for both, as it is written. And I’m pretty sure he could if he really tried.
And as for the description of the Conservative, that pretty much applies for the entire house of commons, and the Lords.
That guy in the image, used to represent the average guy watching porn, always bear a likeness to my mate Daniel.
The poor children! A 13 year old gets a computer for Christmas, hooks it up to the internet, and can’t look at boobies?! Now THAT’S utterly appalling!
Is this going to affect Internet connections in pubs? If someone left their children unattended in a pub, who knows what they might be looking at using the free Wifi.
Ironic really considering Cameron is in fact a massive tool himself.
Today I am reminded that Cameron doesn’t understand how the Internet actually works.
I expect his next comment on the matter will be something like “CLOUD COMPUTING! GIGABYTES! PROXIES!” and we will stand around scratching our heads.
Awful idea. Any parent who thinks a block is in place, will no longer care what their kids are accessing and stop policing the machine. Their kids will continue to happily download filth from the millions of pages that aren’t blocked.
A much better system is to block nothing, and tell all parents that their kids could have access to adult materials and they need to watch what’s going on. You wouldn’t leave your kids alone in room full of Peppa Pig comics and hardcore porn, so don’t leave them alone on the internet.
Buy a new computer? Well, considering that as ‘dumb as the young kids are these days’ most of us are building our own machines and circumvent that problem.
Since when was it the job of ISPs to babysit somebodys’ kids? If you don’t know what your child is up to on the internet then you’re a shite parent.
Also, Cameron… Fuck off! Then when you get there, fuck off some more. In fact, keep fucking off until you come back here, then fuck off again.
Nanny state to the rescue, one of the only good things I thought the tory government would do is stop crap like this.
How is a parent supposed to teach responsibility if they give it up the responsibility for supervising them.