Europeans: How's the new porn filter?

[Broax]

UK != Europe...

Anyway, in Portugal you can still watch all the titties you want!

 

[The White Hunter]

There's a porn filter now?

Not all of the Internet providers have rolled it out yet, so if you're with someone like Virgin Media or something you won't have it yet. It's opt-in or opt-out anyhow, so try and persuade your family to opt-out when the choice comes >.>

I'm already aware of it all

If they decide to try implement such a thing on my connection they shall receive a loud and indignant phone call demanding they cease nannying my telecommunications and llow me to watch whatever sordid filth I desire to.

 

[Fenra]

Living in England I haven't seen any of it yet and honestly always sounded like a lot of bull to me.

Ever since the jimmy savile stuff became news over here almost everyday on the news on the way to work I've heard of some sex abuse story and people yelling at internet porn as a culprit or scapegoat or throwing out a "protect the children!" speech against the evils of pornography

Peoples stance on pornography aside no internet filter is going to stop it. Adults who want to access porn will just turn it off and children / teens are so tech savvy these days they will be able to turn it off or find a way around it, hell they probably know computing better than their parents

Just seems to me like service providers and the government covering their rears so if something happens they can say "hey we did everything we could, can't blame us"

 

[Rellik San]

Britain, where any government IT initiative is met with a collective sound of *SLAP* as a million hands meet a million faces. I always get the impression our government likes the sound of big, important IT projects, whilst simultaneously having no idea what it is they should be doing (free hint for any MP's reading this: It's a campaign of education on internet safety and insisting all ISPs provide in built parental controls and showing how to use them).

In effect they are like a cat rolling on a keyboard and then publishing it as legislation, the same way DICE apparently writes it's net code (low blow and a cheap shot, I know I know).

No porn filter for me, so I should expect an opt-in/out letter later I guess, what worries me is the fact this is opt-out not opt-in, which suggests to me, that anyone with what our government deems esoteric interests (as yes it also blocks those "unsavoury" sites about LGBT and Paganism), is now going to be on some kind of watch list and ready to flag any time a sexual assault occurs within a few miles of them... especially concerning as my mother is a practising pagan so we will have to opt-out so she can talk to others of her faith that's mostly about respecting nature and others.

 

[Thaluikhain]

This is kind of like asking Canada if they're happy electing Obama now that his second term is coming to an end .

Actually this is not technically true... it is accepted to call people from the United States 'Americans' simply because there isn't such a word as UnitedStatian or UnitedStater. (Then again, I know you probably spoke in jest dear fellow carbon-based life form.)

Actually, I'm led to believe that United Stateser is commonly used by people in other parts of the Americas to refer to USAliens.

 

[Barbas]

This is kind of like asking Canada if they're happy electing Obama now that his second term is coming to an end .

Canadia*, please.

OT: Luckily, the government here couldn't implement a piss-up in a brewery. They cannot prevent my multitudinous eyes from their ceaseless browsing, nobody can.

Spoiler

 

[Candidus]

From the UK. Thanks to the Pirate Browser, I haven't noticed the new porn filter.

 

[Trillovinum]

This is kind of like asking Canada if they're happy electing Obama now that his second term is coming to an end .

Actually this is not technically true... it is accepted to call people from the United States 'Americans' simply because there isn't such a word as UnitedStatian or UnitedStater. (Then again, I know you probably spoke in jest dear fellow carbon-based life form.)

Actually, I'm led to believe that United Stateser is commonly used by people in other parts of the Americas to refer to USAliens.

Hmm... cool. I did not know that. Guess I'll never stop learning. Still... the original point still stands.

 

[The Funslinger]

Funny thing, I was unaware the UK was going to be enforcing a porn filter in Sweden. I would have thought that such a thing would have stirred up more controversy, being a massive breach of national sovereignty and all.

Or did you mean to write Brits where you wrote Europeans? Don´t generalize me bro.

To be fair, the only people whose reputation for stoicism exceeds that of the British is that of you Swedes.

OT: As has been mentioned, I believe it's for people signing up with new broadband plans. That said, I'm not sure it's actually gone through because even though Cameron proposed it, backed it and burned a lot of taxpayer's money on a North Korea-esque filter system, the bill still has to go through the House of Commons and the House of Lords. I'm fairly certain it hasn't as there has been no coverage on it since the initial proposal.

If anything has happened, it hasn't affected my viewing of heinous pornography in any way.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Hasn't been extended by my family's ISP yet but even if we opt for the filter, I couldn't care less. It's as easy as hell to get around, just fire up a proxy based in a foreign country such as most TOR exit nodes and you're free to go. A waste of money enacted by middle-aged people who don't understand the Internet in my opinion but whatever.

Your profile picture is so amazingly appropriate for this comment.

OT: Remember when they blocked megavideo and absolutely fucking nothing happened? Or when they blocked all those other sites and absolutely fucking nothing happened?

Well they tried again and guess what? Absolutely fucking nothing happened!

This truly is astonishing! Not at all predictable!

I wonder how many more times they'll try, before they realize that the internet is not exactly fucking easy to police.

 

[Doclector]

Funny thing, I was unaware the UK was going to be enforcing a porn filter in Sweden. I would have thought that such a thing would have stirred up more controversy, being a massive breach of national sovereignty and all.

Or did you mean to write Brits where you wrote Europeans? Don´t generalize me bro.

To be fair, the only people whose reputation for stoicism exceeds that of the British is that of you Swedes.

OT: As has been mentioned, I believe it's for people signing up with new broadband plans. That said, I'm not sure it's actually gone through because even though Cameron proposed it, backed it and burned a lot of taxpayer's money on a North Korea-esque filter system, the bill still has to go through the House of Commons and the House of Lords. I'm fairly certain it hasn't as there has been no coverage on it since the initial proposal.

If anything has happened, it hasn't affected my viewing of heinous pornography in any way.

I did see a few people post about it coming up for BT customers, but maybe they just decided to be ahead of the curve. I hope so. I don't want this damn thing passing without as much as a fuss. Fuck it, do the london riots again, burn shit, burn fucking Cameron this time, he can't be allowed to impose a filter that would block essentially whatever that little shitbag wants to block without having to pay for it dearly.

 

[Strazdas]

I read the topic title and thought hey what the hell did i miss, i enter the thread and find out that its talking about the UK porn filter. UK isnt whole europe you know.
As to the actual topics, i think one needs to be a complete facists to put something like porn filters as a mandatory thing. Let alone what that gives is ability for government to censor any website they want at a whim. and that doesnt end well.

Random side-thought: How many people think a whitelist-locked browser would be a good/useful idea? What I mean is, a browser that will only visit specific domains (configured by a password-holder). Parents could decide what sites they're comfortable with their child using (Wikipedia, Facebook, Neopets, etc.) and only allow those.

I think of it the same i think about any internet filter - it shouldnt exist to begin with.

 

[Eeeee0000]

, what worries me is the fact this is opt-out not opt-in, which suggests to me, that anyone with what our government deems esoteric interests (as yes it also blocks those "unsavoury" sites about LGBT and Paganism), is now going to be on some kind of watch list and ready to flag any time a sexual assault occurs within a few miles of them... especially concerning as my mother is a practising pagan so we will have to opt-out so she can talk to others of her faith that's mostly about respecting nature and others.

what? How can they justify blocking all pagan things? Are they also blocking all Christian/ Muslim / etc. sites?

I can kind of get what their justification for blocking LGBT content could be if they block absolutely anything sex-related, but if they also block sites helping people understand the way they feel... that's bad.