UK Government to block porn

[EightGaugeHippo]

Block porn? As it was said in Jurassic Park "Life Finds A Way", no doubt we will find a way to watch porn.

[Edit]
Also, Its a bit silly how the legal age of consent here in Britian is 16, but you can only watch porn when you're 18.

 

[Bobzer77]

Whether or not this is true, I'm still glad the Irish government has no idea what the internet is yet.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

funnily enough I just finished...perusing the interwebs...before reading this. And i'm 14!

If they do bring this into action (which seems unlikely)i have a freind who'll be 18 by february and a USB stick. I'm sure there'll be other teenagers with easier ways of seeing tits. Also, imaginations.

 

[ph0b0s123]

First, even though I am English I spent some of my time going up in mainland Europe. There youngsters had, even before the internet, much easier access to porn than in the UK, even of the hardcore variety, just from the TV channels. So if access to porn is so bad for children how come the UK has the worst rates for teenage pregnancy and STD's across Europe?

Second why aren't parents being encouraged to use the already existing technology of parental controls. Rather than having a centralized solution forced down our throats. Also it won't work as half the parents in the UK are likely to opt in. Just cause your a parent does not mean you don't like looking at porn. The ideal solution would be something you could opt-in and out of in demand. That sound a lot like parental controls to me. So we are going to spend a load of money on an infrastructure that won't even do what it is designed for.....

Thirdly why as an adult do I have to opt-in to uncensored internet access. This should be an extra services parents have to take out where they bear the extra costs due to it being in place. Being someone with no children I am so fed up of being inconvenience due to other people deciding to have children. People who have decided to have children should be the only ones who should be inconvenienced.

In fact I say parents should be sent to a country or island while their kids are going up where it is completely safe with no access to violent or pornographic TV or internet and no chance of pedos roaming the streets. The rest of us then can live in a country where everything is uncensored, etc as there are no kids around it could cause some made up harm to.

 

[Spicyrocketsauce]

Can you blame them? Watching porn encourages doubleplusungoodthink.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Huh...I guess we can't count on parents to be the parents for their own children. They need the government to raise their children for them.

Also since when is porn doing mental damage to kids? What, someone saw little Jimmy hugging little Suzie in a manner they, in their singularity-level stuffiness, deemed inappropriate, so they don't want to look at the simple answer, and they blame porn just because they need someone to blame so they don't have to deal with 'difficult' issues for themselves.

Seriously, I fucking hate living in this country. I don't wanna have to 'opt in' to view porn. Knowing our government they're keeping a list of who's opted in. I aint ashamed of watching porn, but I don't want to be on some official list of what will undoubtedly come to be referred to as "internet degenerates" and be subsequently blamed for corrupting children just cause I like to watch porn.

 

[Korolev]

I predict this won't go well for the government. It didn't happen in Australia, and I don't think it will happen in the UK. Plus, any government "filter" would be ridiculously easy to circumvent - in fact, that's one of the reasons the Australian government didn't go ahead with the filter - because it was easy, and legal, to use free tools to get around any filter.

I will say that people should criticize the UK government for considering this, but I will also say that it probably won't succeed.

Kids will always find ways to look at pornography. In the old days, kids used to steal magazines from their dad's closet or watch late night TV.

If you don't want your child to be negatively impacted by nudity and pornography, then actually PARENT them for a change. Buy an internet filter, Don't let them have a computer in their room until they're older, teach them proper rules and behaviour and keep an eye on them. It's not that hard. Again, as others have said, it's as if a lot of parents have thrown up their hands in despair, wailing "oh how can we protect the kids", instead of actually trying to protect their kids.

MY parents actually TAUGHT me stuff about rules and morals and social responsibility. MY parents actually limited TV and computer access til I was older. MY parents actually did a little something called PARENTING. And other parents can do the same. THEY didn't need no internet filter to raise me or my siblings, and we turned out great.

 

[MurderousToaster]

Because, as we all know, Australian media will hear of UK government actions before any news channel or newspaper in the UK does. Believe me, if something like that were happening, the Daily Mail would have already made at least four hundred articles about how it's heralding the apocalypse.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Yeah... thats not going to happen. I don't actually need to read the site to know that its bullshit. It would be like the government trying to ban alcohol, it's just not going to work.

I will read the website, if i change my opinion i will edit... but i doubt it.

Edit: Yeahhh... it's not quite what the title suggests really. Still won't work. They aren't banning Porn, it's more that they are making it just a little out-of-the-way, which still won't stop teenagers looking up porn.

 

[Bloodstain]

So you have to request certain porn websites if you want to access them? Sounds fun.
Dear XXX,

I would like to access hotanime-tentacleXXX.com.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. John Silver

And here I thought it was nobody's business which porn you want to watch. Oh well, goodbye anonymity.

Besides, since when is depicted nudity bad for children? OH NOES OH NOES NUDE PEOPLE HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFES
It's not like it's something perfectly natural or something that you are most likely going to do yourself one day.
Hey, I've got an idea! Let's ban mirrors. I mean, kids can see themselves naked in them, can't they? Imagine the horror those poor kids must feel!

Seriously, when did people stop parenting? Ever heard about sex-educating your child? And parental control devices for the weirder stuff?
God****ingdammit, me is mad.

Can you blame them? Watching porn encourages doubleplusungoodthink.

Oh, I see what you did there.
Good one.

 

[ph0b0s123]

Because, as we all know, Australian media will hear of UK government actions before any news channel or newspaper in the UK does. Believe me, if something like that were happening, the Daily Mail would have already made at least four hundred articles about how it's heralding the apocalypse.

This has been rumbling for a month now and has been widely reported in UK tech mags like the Register. But is is at an early stage and papers won't bother until the gov floats a proposal about how it will be done. Hopefully the ISP's can explain that this system will be a technical nightmare before then.

 

[DSK-]

Riiiight. Because kids are TOTALLY not subjected to sex and sexualisation in the likes of other media such as newspapers, magazines, television and movies.

If you are going to do it on the Interweb, you will have to do it on the other media too. And of course, they won't do that.

 

[Zipa]

I wouldn't worry, stuff like this never sticks. The EU and supreme courts always overturn such govement schemes like they just did with the immigration cap for non EU citizens.

 

[Farson89]

I'm inclined to doubt the validity of this story purely because I couldn't find it reported anywhere else.

 

[Super Six One]

The end is nigh.......

 

[The Funslinger]

OH, GOD, THIS IS HORRIBLE!!!

oh, wait...

*click, click*

problem solved

read the thing, it's not that bad.

 

[Zipa]

Whether or not this is true, I'm still glad the Irish government has no idea what the internet is yet.

The British goverment really doesn't either, they are all a bunch of out of touch fossils that don't have a clue. I bet they don't even know that parental controls exist on both windows and every single browser avaiable.

 

[Valksy]

How about parents look after their own fucking children for a change - don't let them have a PC in their room and assume that it will work as a babysitter.

As for slightly older people - like 14-15 year old lads seeing porn...so what? I remember once, when I was a kid, I was in a newsagents and as I was browsing "Smash Hits" I overheard my Mum offering to buy my brother a Playboy. At the time I was mortified but in hindsight she was acknowledging that guys jerk off, that it isn't bad that guys jerk off and it is probably better that he did rather than go and get some girl pregnant. Was that unusually progressive? Was it a harmful thing?