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ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014

Posted by timothy on from the registered-medical-exceptions-only dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Parental filters for pornographic content will come as a default setting for all homes in the UK by the end of 2013, says David Cameron's special advisor on preventing the sexualization and commercialization of childhood, Claire Perry MP. Internet service providers will be expected to provide filtering technology to new and existing customers with an emphasis on opting out, rather than opting in."

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  1. so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Paintings and sculptures? Photography of nude people? Literature that has sections with with erotic or sexual topics (e.g. the Bible?)

    But violent media is just fine.....

    1. Re:so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Question is, 'How do you work around the blockage'?

      You can opt out (according to summary)
      And I am sure that the helpful "suspected pervert/pedophile" investigative team will be very polite. You have nothing to worry about.

    2. Re:so what is porn? by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Duh, you actually think this is something to do with porn.

      This is being used to get the censorship infrastructure in place, so it can then be expanded to cover any kind of 'bad data' in the future.

      Oh, sorry, the Slippery Slope Mafia will be along in a minute to tell me that's a logical fallacy and, yes, it really is all just about stopping kids seeing naked people.

    3. Re:so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Am confused. Doesn't this mean that youtube/dailymotion/tumblr and many other top sites would have to be put on the porn filter by default?

      And what defines porn exactly? Sure, there's the obvious stuff, but people get off on anything. Would smoking fetish sites be classed as porn even tho the partipants are fully clothed? What about Gilbert Gottfried's epic 50 Shades of Gray reading (go on, look it up, is brilliant)?

      Surely the UK government then has to porn-block the Sun/Star for the topless girls and put a ban on the jailbait-obsessed Daily Mail and its 'side panel of shame'? But as those papers are run by assorted right-wing business interest pals of said government I have a feeling they'd be immune.

    4. Re:so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      People don't understand that because it isn't true.

    5. Re:so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Don't you think we should block access to religion before blocking access to porn? It seems to me religion is way more harmful than porn.

      Of course, too bad people who still believe in fairy tales will never get any appreciation for this.

    6. Re:so what is porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Indeed. Good luck trying to get a teaching job after your decision to opt out of the censorship goes on record.

  2. Why not block other things by default, too? by coId+fjord · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can request to get around the filters, after all, so why not block other things as well? Religious websites would be a decent start. What's wrong...? Suddenly blocking things by default is bad because you don't like what's being blocked this time around?

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  3. Re:what're they doing on the commercialization par by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And TV ads... are not those commercialization of childhood? What about an opt-out for those? (I personally would like that).

  4. Censoring porn is easy by davidwr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Censoring porn is easy.

    Not censoring non-porn is easy.

    Doing both at the same time is virtually impossible.

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