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The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents
New submitter SMABSA writes: With British Prime Minister David Cameron announcing plans for porn users to be required to register their bank account/debit card as a means of age verification, Spiked-Online writer Stephen Beard explores the privacy implications, technical feasibility and motivations of such a plan. Here's an excerpt that gives a feel for Beard's take: Not only are the plans to regulate porn sites intrusive, they are also technically infeasible (as are many bright ideas that come from central government). In the amount of time, for example, it would take to identify a site not complying with the new rules, that site could be mirrored multiple times. Such ineffectiveness has been evident in the government’s futile attempts to censor torrent tracker Pirate Bay.
The posturing about protecting children is irksome, too. To pretend that children in decades past haven’t been sneaking a look at mucky images, albeit in magazines and newspapers, is naive at best.
Yeah, as if a revolver would allow you to fight against the government with tanks, nukes and jet fighters.
Are you saying that all countries restricting guns (Canada, most/all of Europe, Japan, Australia) are tyrannic? Otherwise what tyranny is there to protect?
You can't keep kids from seeing porn
. Bullshit yes you can. i remember the day without the internet you couldn't just buy porn, you just couldn't see porn. Porn was not free to everyone you had to pay for it. You wanted Porn you had to prove your age in the book stores that carried it. Not only that, but the covers are covered in a brown wrapper in non adult book stores. So don't say you cant stop children from viewing porn that's for stinking lazy parents and pornographers/businessmen who don't give a damn who see it or who buys it. What your worried about is loosing you free porn that's all you care about. Place the problem their is today on pornographers who create spam with porn images laced in them not caring who get it. Blame the pornographer who creates web sites of poplar stuff like whitehouse or put in a dot whatever it takes. So you want to blame someone, blame them they created this but being lazy greedy and scummy. Forced the use of the XXX domain make tools for those who don't want to see porn. Its about choices not your right to rub one out.
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