The United Kingdom Is Banning Porn from the Internet

[Hammock Parties]

Well...that's interesting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...web-users.html

PM will today warn that internet pornography is 'corroding childhood'
All internet-connected homes will be asked whether they want filters
And all new subscribers will have to opt out if they want obscene material
Porn simulating rape will also be banned under new legislation

Every householder connected to the internet will have their access to online porn blocked unless they ask to receive it.

In a victory for the Daily Mail, David Cameron will announce the move today among a series of measures cracking down on against the tide of web sleaze.

The Prime Minister will warn that internet pornography – much of it easily accessible to youngsters – is ‘corroding childhood’.

By the end of next year, all 19million UK homes currently connected to the net will be contacted by service providers and told they must say whether family-friendly filters that block all porn sites should be switched on or off.

From the end of this year, all new customers setting up a broadband account or switching provider will have the filters automatically switched on unless they opt to disable them to allow sites with ‘adult content’.

‘The Daily Mail has campaigned hard to make internet search engine filters “default on”. Today they can declare that campaign a success,’ Mr Cameron said.

‘We are taking action to help clean up the internet and protect a generation of children from often extreme online pornography.’

Other measures being announced by Mr Cameron today include adult content filters on all new mobile phones, a bar on accessing adult content through public wi-fi and calling in Ofcom to regulate industry progress. Internet giants such as Google will be told they have a ‘moral duty’ to do more to stop child abuse images being accessed.

Pornography involving simulated rape will be banned both online and offline, and online videos will be subject to the same rules as those sold in sex shops.

There will be stronger powers for watchdogs to investigate the ‘hidden internet’ – heavily encrypted forums and pages that allow abusers to cover their tracks

There has been growing alarm at evidence that a third of children have accessed online pornography by the time they reach ten. Six in ten parents now say they are worried or very worried about their sons and daughters seeing violent and sexual material on the web.

[bigjosh]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

lmao

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop

As someone who doesn't look at porn, I am not bothered.

I've looked at plenty of porn on the Internet, and I'm not bothered by this either.

Let the kids of today get their porn the same way we did when I was a kid. An occasional Playboy or Penthouse doesn't hurt anyone, but I have to admit that I think the world would be better off if every kid with an Internet connection didn't have 24x7 access to some of the raunchy stuff that's out there today.

I mean, Two Girls One Cup: Really?

[UK_Chief]

It's a stupid idea and won't go ahead I don't think. Cameron was making a speech/policy about child pornography and how to make internet providers stop people accessing this stuff, without realising that the majority of child porn is not on the mainstream web and is shared p2p etc. Then he somehow put regular porn into the same category as child porn and has made a policy that basically already exists (i.e. you can opt out by calling your internet provider, which responsible parents already do)

This is a policy made simply to pander to the right wing media of middle England who like to get outraged by any smut, but has no basis in reality and won't actually work (you think kids won't get porn over the internet any other way if they really want?!) P2p etc...

Sex ed in the UK is terrible (we are British don't you know and we don't like to talk about that stuff), which is the biggest problem. You start talking to 15-16 year olds about sex and for half of the kids you are about 5 years too late and the other half you are preaching to the choir anyway.

Just my 2 cents. Or 2 pennies as we say over here...