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ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014
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."
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.....
This is an interesting job title:
Special advisor on preventing the sexualization and commercialization of childhood
Will she also be proposing that UK homes have AdBlock on by default by 2014, to ensure that kids don't get too many ads targeted at them?
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how about the ISPs focus on merely PROVIDING THE INTERNET SERVICE rather than POLICING IT.
seriously.
fucking brits
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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No, but you can bet this won't stop at "porn". It will be "hate sites" (basically anything not PC) and sites that they claim are copyright infringing too.
government effort to force ISPs
Anonymous Coward wrote:
how about the ISPs focus on merely PROVIDING THE INTERNET SERVICE rather than POLICING IT.
ISPs in Britain aren't free to provide Internet service without policing it. To do so they would have to move their operations out of Britain. How exactly is that feasible?
You want to what? Opt out?
You fucking pervert!
People like you don't deserve to be on the Internet!
And TV ads... are not those commercialization of childhood? What about an opt-out for those? (I personally would like that).
""hate sites" (basically anything not PC)"
Like Apple?
Knowledge is inherently dangerous, and we need the government to decide what is dangerous. Ignorance must be maintained at all costs. Praise CoE Jesus!
Censoring porn is easy.
Not censoring non-porn is easy.
Doing both at the same time is virtually impossible.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I guess there will be plenty of folks who will say something to the effect, "I know what porn is when I see it."
Question is: Whose eyes will decide this question?
All that said now is still a great time to join the Open Rights Group - just to make sure.
also sometimes a guys penis goes in a guys mouth, or a guys anus, or sometimes a womans anus has a penis going in it and another penis going in her vagina at the same time, thats called double penetration
also there is uhm, bukkake, where a bunch of guys jerk off onto a woman and/or man.
then there is fetish porn, like, you know, some people are really into casts. like casts like you get for a broken bone. they think its sexy.
also there is like uhm, bestiality. where like people are fucking dogs and horses
then there is tentacle porn. it helps if you speak japanese.
ok then there is 'porn for women' which is a lot like other porn but with a soft lighting scheme
then there is lesbian porn. alot of them are not really lesbians.
but mostly i guess id say that porn is uhm, film production where nobody gets payed union scale.
in the jimmy savile case, and there are numerous, and i do mean numerous, cases of government corruption in covering up massive child abuse in "care homes" (homes for orphans, etc) in Great Britain, but also in its pseudo-attached islands of Guernsey, Jersey, etc.
Question is: Whose eyes will decide this question?
Finally, we have found the perfect use for Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
At least we ensure that those same ISPs don't waste their time investing on IPv6 deployment
Because sex is unnatural.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Nearly every day we read a story of the government wiping their ass with the constitution. Every day there is a story telling us how the government is tapping each landline, mobile, internet connected computer, satellite uplink,... All this happens daily and I have not seen mass protests. We here at slashdot (tech savy people) know whats going on. We know that this is just the tip of the iceberg and there is lots more going on. Still no reaction from the general public. Its like the population of the United States has become numb to these stringent violation of human rights, basic privacy laws, the constitution and the declaration of independence. Seeing people just completely ignore these facts and just continue eating their McDonalds and watching their episodes of glee on tv makes me sick to my stomach. We got 2 choices as educated citizens: Either say "f*ck you" to the general population and we continue to protect ourself with Tor, PGP, Darknets/Freenet, SSH tunnels, Proxies OR All the hackers, nerds, tech savy people around the world to unite and make a new internet. Independent of government and corporate control. Protocols that are inherently secure. Transport methods in which the nodes where data passes trough doesn't know the content, sender or destination. (I know many of you will scream tor) but TOR is not the solution. We need transparent methods. Methods that can be used by joe average. Mod me down, I don't care its your loss.
I think it will be interesting, assuming that the whole thing is even feasible in any way, to see what the percentage of opt-out ends up being. I suspect it will be 2-3% at most.
Or is that different because the carrier gets their slice of the pie?
Anybody with children. Please, the moment they start the censorship, sue them whenever you discover that your child has found any porn at all. If they start censoring, make them liable for their failure to censor well. With some luck they will have to quit trying.
Has that ever worked? You'll get to elections 3 years after the fact, and people will either have forgotten, or the opponent will have even fewer things in common with you, that you end up voting for the lesser of two evils, though it might be the one that instituted censorship. Multiply this process by everyone that votes, district shenanigans, etc, and that theory is so diluted, that it might as well be a fallacy.
You cannot censor Internet porn- and this is the whole point. Tony Blair (these actions are actually his, just like the declaration of war against Syria by the USA and EU) knows this, so what is the real game?
1) filters are activated at the ISP level, actually representing the widest and most repressive Internet censorship regime on the planet
2) every other third-world hell hole immediately justifies its acts of censorship by quoting the UK
3) the porn censor 'fails' and the UK tabloid press goes into over-drive demanding even harsher measures to plug all the un-pluggable holes that every system of porn censorship has
4) Blair's people announce another massive extension to Internet censorship to solve this 'problem'
5) meantime the tabloids and the BBC are now running campaigns stating that house-holds with people under 18 are actually engaging in child-abuse if they opt out of the filter.
6) Blair's people introduce legislation that formally makes it a criminal offence to be the cause of any person under 18 seeing 'pornographic' material
7) the porn filters are extended to remove access to all those sites the police state loathes, like alternate news outlets.
8) the BBC and the tabloids now step up their campaigning against ALL web-sites that fail to align with UK government policy. This will especially include anti-war sites, or sites that contradict the propaganda messages the BBC targets at young people.
In the meantime, Blair will have moved his war of genocide in Syria to a full blown war against Iran (a war that is intended to openly use nuclear weapons for the first time since WW2- America has covertly used various forms of nuclear weapons in conflicts since Japan). Blair's total clamp-down on the Web will just be seen a 'war-powers' act.
Blair finds the advantages of the 'slippery slope' principle to be hilarious, and has initiated as many uses of this method as possible in the UK. The population of Britain hate what is being done to them, but they also give Blair's acts their passive support as well. For instance, Blair is extending the age of compulsory education to 18, without spending even one penny building new facilities for all the extra young people who will be forced to attend some form of schooling for an extra two years. This is because the program is actually intended to introduced 'national service' (conscription) by the back door. Families with young people who fail to attend government approved training centres are to be subject to massive criminal penalties.
Given that it will prove impossible for parents to FORCE the attendance of young people who do not wish to participate, the idea is that these parents will be coerced to thrown their 16-18 year olds out of the family home. However, Blair has ensured that people of this age get no social support from the government. Faced with this nightmare, the BBC and the tabloids are to encourage such parents to demand that the government conscripts their young adult children into Blair's military training camps, so the parents no longer have legal responsibility for their children's attendance.
This is one of Blair's classic manufactured PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION ploys.
While dribbling cretins will try to tell you Blair and his New Labour movement are no longer in power, every single one of Blair's initiatives that he could not get through parliament under a 'Labour' regime is being successfully implemented by his lieutenants that 'head' the Liberal and Conservative parties. Unknown to most sheep in the UK, Blair's man David Blunkett oversees the program to extend schooling to 18, and to use the fallout to introduce conscription. Embryo conscription projects have been rolling out across Britain for 3 years now, in the form of para-military training camps offered to young people across the long Summer holiday.
Britain is the centre of the spider's web. The 'dumb brutes' of the USA merely provide the muscle. Social engineering of a form beyond the wildest imagination of you Yanks in common-
We're British.
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Because it's something that tends to arouse strong emotions in people...who wants to explain to their 8 year old son or daughter why dad is pitching a tent, or why mom doesn't let the plumber slap her ass like in the movies? Like it or not, people are more de-sensitized to violence than they are to sexual situations; and that makes some people uncomfortable. They seek not to understand their emotions, and come to some peace with them, but to wall them off or control them; their final plan is a human race that looks like the Vulcan race...except with less emotion. Since this is liable to backfire (emotions are hideously strong, and those who claim to successfully control them are usually most subordinate to them), we are all going to suffer for it.
I am John Hurt.
No, this is the UK.
We get a choice of three parties, none of which represent our opinions on most issues.
It's worse than that. During the wikipedia block incident, it was noticed that many ISPs 'block' sites by intercepting the HTTP request and returning a false 404 error.
They are so secretive that even when they block a site, they deliberately make it look like there was a technical error. They could be blocking thousands of innocent sites right now, and no-one would notice. The internet is full of 404s, a few more won't raise any attention.