WHY!!! Good thing I live in Australia. In a way porn is good I'v picked up lots of stuff from porn ......... I'm not a pervert..... 
UK Government to block porn
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Be careful, they have their uses, but with Republican figure heads like Glenn Beck doing things like saying "The new Food and Drug Administration's food safety regulation reform bill is about CONTROL and eventually STARVATION!" there is a reason I called them crazed. lolEphraim J. Witchwood said:
i was born in 1980, by the age of 11 i'd seen a porno mags, by 15 i had a couple of video tapes.
all of this was before the internet was common place in peoples homes
best solution, 4 digit pin as standard on browsers accessing adult sites to protect the younger ones, but theres gonna be no way of stoppin them h###y teens if they wanna see blue action
all of this was before the internet was common place in peoples homes
best solution, 4 digit pin as standard on browsers accessing adult sites to protect the younger ones, but theres gonna be no way of stoppin them h###y teens if they wanna see blue action
Ironically, I was in the middle of downloading some while reading the article! Joking, but on a serious note, kids will find a way around it. Probably by going to a file sharing website to download it since the source is blocked.
... in AMERICA!Rocket Dog said:
Yes, yes, here is hoping for you Brits this doesn't pan out. We don't need successful examples on claming down on the internet for the US to eventually follow.
You know it's true, California likes to try everything Europe does.
Generally, although some do then develop different sexual habits because of watching porn at a young age, mostly its a good way of keeping people and teenagers hormonal feelings down which stops them overloading with pressure. I know I wouldn't be making it through my teenage years if I just let my hormones rise rather than release them from time to time (and don't say to me go and get a girlfriend because the girls I like generally wouldn't have sex with you unless they really loved you, or you bought them a house..)Wiezzen said:
I personally think this ban of porn (assuming you have to register to be on the 'official porn watchers association') will lead to an increase in black market porn trades, an increase in prostitution and even more people having babies at age 16..
Ah, sexual repression, you're back! I was wondering when you were going to show up again. We've missed you.
Why do they think it's a good idea to remove something that allows people to personally explore their own fantasies and sexuality in complete privacy? The "opt-in" measure will carry the same sort of stigma that kept pornography peddled exclusively in back alleys before Playboy gave it an image overhaul. These people really have no connection to reality, and are going to set a very bad precedent if this holds up.
EDIT: Guys, do NOT go ga-ga for America as a response to this. If the UK does it, the US may very well follow.
Why do they think it's a good idea to remove something that allows people to personally explore their own fantasies and sexuality in complete privacy? The "opt-in" measure will carry the same sort of stigma that kept pornography peddled exclusively in back alleys before Playboy gave it an image overhaul. These people really have no connection to reality, and are going to set a very bad precedent if this holds up.
EDIT: Guys, do NOT go ga-ga for America as a response to this. If the UK does it, the US may very well follow.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAcocoro67 said:
... I'm sorry, but as an American looking at this, THAT'S FUNNY. Looks like Britain is taking steps to be like North Korea in their ways of censorship. Yeah, I know, its porn, but its a step. Soon its going to be violence, then drugs, then you'll just not be able to go anywhere online.
And I get that they're doing an opting out thing. thats all fine and good, but it seems like a double edged sword (at least if i understand it right) to me. Cuase, if I'm thinking about this right, the two options are:
1) tell the company you dont want porn in your house. Which means tehy'll shut it off completely, for everyone, and then you have to call or tell them to turn it back on or "opt in" if you even can for say something like a 3 hour period.
OR
2) Everyone gets an ID number/password/something when they are legally old enough to look at porn that you have to enter when you want to see the site.
Either way, both are easily able to get around if you're a kid and inventive (determined) enough. Though I miss the days of just paying a guy ten bucks to buy you a Playboy and tell them to keep the change. And with Playboy starting to go under, I think those days are over.
Also: "A survey by Psychologies magazine this summer found that one in three children aged 10 in Britain had viewed pornography on the net."
Again, American speaking about American fashion so I dont know if its the same in Britain, but I bet you 100% (or at least to a degree where you could round up and still be no less then 95%) of kids age ten of have seen someone dressed up in some kinda revealing/slutty clothes in REAL LIFE and of those, probably 4 in 10 of them dress like it themselves at one point or another. So the balls in your court Britain (if you have the same fashion trends) do you censor life, or just make everyone wear business/school uniform-like clothes all the time?
besides... I think you're going to end up killing the porn industry in Britain (or at least hurting it) and in your financial situation, its probably not the best idea to hurt any company making money that pays taxes back to the government.
Well, that's the Australian Government for you, hugely disconnected with society and thinking itself the saving grace of every citizen, opinion and 'democracy' be damned. Not really new...wait, UK? Oh God, it's spreading!
I call conspiracy, or at least some sort of sanity-consuming virus.
Really, nothing good can come from this kind of progression, especially in the long run. I'm actually shocked that Australia isn't an isolated incident. If this spreads much more, I dare say we've successfully allowed human society to move back several hundred years =/
I call conspiracy, or at least some sort of sanity-consuming virus.
Really, nothing good can come from this kind of progression, especially in the long run. I'm actually shocked that Australia isn't an isolated incident. If this spreads much more, I dare say we've successfully allowed human society to move back several hundred years =/
And people wondered why I moved to America... I jest, though from what I understand, it is not a complete censorship of pornography. Adults can opt to have it within the home if they so choose, but censorship is still censorship no matter what motive/reason they have for it. With this announcement plus the elevation of student tuition, it is now safe to say that the British government is run by pillocks.
This wouldnt fly in America. I'm sorry, but if there's three things America is built on, its alcohol, porn, and violence. If they tried something like this on a national level (which I'm sure they have, multiple times), either people who take up hacking,find a way around it in general, or create such an uproar that it would have to be retracted. Besides, I think American legislature would wait a little to see the backlash from the average British citizen.Wolfenbarg said:
... That, and i like I said, Porn is big business here in America. They wouldnt kill that market. No way in Hell. And you'd have the issue of whether the law makers themselves would sign up for this list to "opt in" or "opt out" and the hypocrisy that would follow. If you watch anything on American politics on a state level, you'd see the sick deprived human beings we have in office.
I agree. Still, there's way to much fuss being made when a child sees porn. It seems that seeing sex somehow robs a child of their ability to become functioning adults, at least in the eyes of certain people. This taboo around nudity and sex has to go. Hell, children have already looked at porn by the time their in school and are already discussing it with their mates. I know for sure porn was a joking topic in school because of how taboo it was. It was exciting to do something that was supposedly not allowed and we all laughed like idiots. That is, until we reached puberty and porn basically became a part of life.KeenanDude said:
It's absolute bullshit that this is being covered up as an attempt to protect the children. What do they need protecting from? Is porn so damaging that the moment they see a glimpse of a cock they're going to start having seizures and die? I mean fuck, what's the next step? Force parents to live in a different house lest the kids enter the room while they're having sex? And if you ban all internet porn they could just end up doing what everyone else did before the internet. Use an internet proxy which isn't complicated at all or just plain raid daddy's Hustler stash.
And what if you filter out all the major pornography sites on the net? What will that do? It's not like new sites can't be created and it's not like there aren't forums and websites full of porn. They're attempting to hold on to moronic, outdated values and it's absolute bullshit.
I mean look at this shit. Perverse sexual behavior among children? Are you talking about underaged "children" aka teenagers or actual children? What, are they going to start fucking everything they see the moment they watch porn? And what's going to happen to them once they end up seeing daddy massage mommy's vagina? Are they going to become sex starved monsters with their only goal in life to fuck everything that moves? Hell, is there a study to support your clause? Is there evidence?
The other quote presents a supposed "case" that happened with 2 brothers that apparently "sadistically attacked" two other boys. They mention a "toxic" home life and instead of focusing on that they immediately blame pornography. Maybe their parents were not responsible enough, maybe they were abused, maybe, JUST MAYBE, there are other factors to this like mental health. I know for a fact and so does every other ex colleague from my general school class that were exposed to porn in fucking first grade that we did not start assaulting everyone and attempted to rape them. THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS PEOPLE, CONSIDER THEM.
You're talking about a country that despite these ideals has had supposed avant garde policy makers put prohibition on two huge commercial goods that before we didn't seem to have a problem with: alcohol and drugs. Not to mention that the policy makers that currently are in office are in favor of stricter regulations to protect children. If other western nations are setting a precedent, then why wouldn't they follow?emeraldrafael said:
Yes, porn is a big business, but that's exactly why they would go crazy to lobby for congress to pass such a law. Think about it. Ever since the internet has popped up, there has been such an inflation of content with amateur videos that the bigger industries have basically been run into the ground. Over-exposure has vastly devalued their content, especially since a majority of people get their kicks off it with free sites. An internet ban would force a regression that would push more people back to physical copies and paid content. That and piracy of course, but it's not like that's a new thing for porn.
I am disappoint. But really, porn is just a scapegoat of stuck-up asshole fundamentalists to "protect the children" (when really they just want things banned for the sake of being "offended" by them), just like Muslims, homosexuals, atheism, rock music, death metal, Elmo, video games not based on the Bible or daring to show the infamous (ominous voice: side boob), movies daring to show that thing in which hides under the clothing of everyone on the planet.. did I mention por-?
..You get the point.
..You get the point.
Absolutely insane, as other people have stated, apparently parents can't be bothered to actually PARENT anymore. I love how one of the officials comments on how he hopes people 'get their acts together' so they don't have to legislate. You moron, the government does not exist to push its own brand of morality on the people.
