No more pr0n for UK

Darth-Nero · 10-12-2011, 12:18 PM

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/12/19/...ked-in-the-uk/

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In a move that smacks of the draconian Internet laws in place in countries like Australia, the UK government has plans to ask ISPs to block all pornography from home Internet connections by default, it’s reported today. Under the plan, customers would have to ask the ISP for access to pornography.

The Sunday Times reports [paywalled link] that the UK’s largest ISPs will be called to a meeting next month to discuss the idea, which is being presented as a way of stopping children from accessing porn. Quoted in the story, Conservative MP Claire Perry describes the current Internet as the “Wild west”. “We are not coming at this from an anti-porn perspective. We just want to make sure our children aren’t stumbling across things we don’t want them to see.”

The Sunday Times says the government is pushing for this despite the UK’s Internet Services Providers’ Association saying in the past that such a block would be expensive and technically difficult.

Does this sound insane to you? It does to us. While most people probably don’t want children exposed to porn, the idea of blocking it at source is hairbrained on a number of levels:

How do you define porn? Sure, some sites are obviously explicit but what about sites which cover the academic study of pornography? What about message boards like 4chan which cover a wide range of topics including porn? Where is the line?
If you do block sites which cover porn among other subjects, where do you stop? It’s potentially letting Internet censorship in through the back door.
Adults shouldn’t be stigmatised for viewing porn. Forcing them to contact their ISPs for “permission” does that.

No, we’ll take end-users choosing their own child protection measures over a ‘Nanny state’ approach. It’s worth noting that the minister behind this reported plan is Ed Vaizey, who last month made comments that called the future of net neutrality in the UK into question, even if he later claimed to have been misunderstood.

We’ll keep you informed on how this story progresses.

UK strikes again? more info about this please.

kluang · 10-12-2011, 12:31 PM

Why do they need this?

Doesn't the browser have parental control thingy. Or they didn't bother to check it out?

**Mal** · 10-12-2011, 01:25 PM

Eu'kay be crazay. It shouldn't be the responsibility of a service provider to ensure the "safety" of someone's child, the parents should know what the risks are to their children and be responsible accordingly. The most that should be done is ISPs offer all customers a customizable, client-side filtering program (which most likely do already).

LonelyNinja · 10-13-2011, 12:06 AM

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It’s potentially letting Internet censorship in through the back door.

Har har har.

Kinako · 10-13-2011, 02:41 AM

That's gotta hurt

stubborn_d0nkey · 10-14-2011, 05:08 AM

Any kind of involuntary internet censorship is bad.

The ability to have pr0n blocked from the isp is not completely a bad idea, however it shouldn't be blocked by default. If they want to make this available they should make it optional, so if a parent (school/workplace/whatever) wants pr0n blocked they call the isp provider to block it for them.

10-12-2011, 12:31 PM	#2
kluang One Punch Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,418 Thanks: 3,186 Thanked 4,659 Times in 2,099 Posts	Re: No more pr0n for UK Why do they need this? Doesn't the browser have parental control thingy. Or they didn't bother to check it out? __________________ To err is human, to forgive, divine. Humans aren't machines... they have souls, feelings. They live, they die, they love, they hate... And yes, they even make mistakes..... When kluang finds you creepy and wrong then you are beyond horrible. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Being Malaysian is about driving in a German car to an Indian restaurant for an Indonesian food, then travelling home, grabbing a Pakistani kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV. Because we have no originality.

10-12-2011, 01:25 PM	#3
Mal Scotch Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,101 Thanks: 12,849 Thanked 10,815 Times in 3,838 Posts	Re: No more pr0n for UK Eu'kay be crazay. It shouldn't be the responsibility of a service provider to ensure the "safety" of someone's child, the parents should know what the risks are to their children and be responsible accordingly. The most that should be done is ISPs offer all customers a customizable, client-side filtering program (which most likely do already).

10-13-2011, 02:41 AM	#5
Kinako Chuunin Join Date: May 2009 Location: Where the fuck you think I live fool? Posts: 674 Thanks: 1,337 Thanked 1,443 Times in 684 Posts	Re: No more pr0n for UK That's gotta hurt

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