UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected

Gordonjcp writes "The BBC are reporting that the proposed automatic blocking of porn websites by UK ISPs has been rejected by the government. Only 35% of the parents who responded to a survey on filtering wanted an automatic block. The report (PDF), drawn from over 3500 responses, found that 80% of all those who responded were in favour of no filtering of any kind."

Comments

Re:How is there overlap?

[CheShACat]

35% of [i]parents[/i] wanted an automatic block.

80% of [i]all those who responded[/i] wanted no filtering of any kind.

Re:The numbers don't make sense

[BasilBrush]

There's no overlap. You just didn't comprehend what was written in the summary. 35% was of parents. 80% was of all people responding to the survey.

Hardly surprising that the subset of parents were slightly more in favour of filtering than the entire group, which included non-parents.

Re:The Internet is not a babysitter

[Anonymous Coward]

IMHO that is not even the biggest issue here. It has already been proved in Finland, that the (child)porn filtering is
- Used to block local websites that tell people the truth about the porn filtering (e.g. by providing a list of websites that are blocked and don't contain information that according to the law should be blocked)
- The websites that are blocked, have absolutely no way to get out of the list (the owner of the website has tried for over a 4 years now)
- Already discussions have started about extending the block (e.g. the pirate bay is already blocked)
- It was not written into the law, but the creators of the law explained that it should be used only on foreign websites, yet right from the start a local website (mentioned above) was blocked.

This is absolutely insane.