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UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected

Posted by timothy on from the y'kin-never-take-our-freedom dept.

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."

6 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. The Internet is not a babysitter by kthreadd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about not trying to be an automatic parent and actually doing some parenting.

    1. Re:The Internet is not a babysitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:The Internet is not a babysitter by KarlIsNotMyName · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A filtering tool should at least be something for each to set up or opt in to, if they feel they need it. If it's supposed to be good parenting, it needs to be something they actively involve themselves with in some form.

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      We are all God's parents.
  2. Re:The numbers don't make sense by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Translation by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in other words, 2/3 of parents actually don't want government to think of their children all the time and instead want it to stay the hell out? Who would have thought...

    Who would have thought that the majority of parents do NOT want government to take over raising their kids and instead want to hand down their own values instead of letting government dictate what values they should have?

    I'm surprised. For a change, it's a positive surprise.

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    We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  4. Hooray!!! Some sense!!!! by Heebie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Censorship is *ALWAYS* wrong under *ALL* circumstances. There are *NO* reasons that justify it under any circumstance. Every human being should have access to the sum total of human knowledge.