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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."

3 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 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.