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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. what're they doing on the commercialization part? by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  3. 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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  4. 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).

  5. Re:how about by madprof · · Score: 5, Funny

    fucking brits

    Sorry, not allowed to see those.

  6. Re:what're they doing on the commercialization par by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    ""hate sites" (basically anything not PC)"

    Like Apple?

  7. 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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  8. well, the man's penis goes in the lady's vagina by decora · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.