this is one thing they need to do. pronto

I doubt that dezzy, no need to be rude.
My opinion has less to do with that and more to do with the illegal practices within the porn industry, of course the government need to put in place this kind of protection and filters as this material floods the internet.

What is the evidence that children today are confused about sexual matters?

Children engage in under age sex, regardless of what's on the internet. It's just a fact. It's weird the way people are acting that children only started to know about sex when the internet was introduced into society.

Internet porn has probably provided confused children/teens with more reassurance, and less stigma.

Why should my children have access to millions of pages of hardcore, sometimes violent pornography just so you can toss yourself off?

Stick to web search and stay off the image search, you dirty mare.

How do you know this?

But you can set up filters yourself already?

As for other peoples houses, you still won't know really. As they might have opted in.

Well they wouldn't have to. Surely as a concerned parent its not embarrassing to lift the phone and ask for the filter to be activated. Much less invasive than asking millions to lift the phone and declare to their ISP/The Government that they quite fancy a wank because they are obviously such dirty perverted little freaks.

This....!!!!

"Why should my children have access to millions of pages of hardcore, sometimes violent pornography just so you can toss yourself off?"

The Porn Industry has strict rules and guidelines and you're screwed if you don't abide by them.

Again it's down to the parents to prevent their children from seeing this stuff, there's plenty of programs available to prevent kids from looking at porn and inappropriate material so you should try to look into them instead of expecting the government to do your parenting for you.

I think you know that's not true, there have been many studies done some of which maybe helped in this decision?

Because it's a regulated industry. I don't watch porn from Turkmenistan filmed on a dodgy handheld in the back of a 1974 van.

I'm not saying that there isn't anyone one in the porn industry who is a sex slave, but it seems a bit of a stretch to assume that most people are, and banning porn from computers in the UK, will have a positive impact on human trafficking around the world. It won't.

There are probably people working in fruit farms/restaurants in the UK that have been trafficked. It happens everywhere and in every industry, but porn is actually fairly decent for looking after the people involved these days.

I wouldn't have written it if I knew it wasn't true. Provide the studies. I'm not entirely sure what "there have been many studies done some of which maybe helped in this decision?" means.

Teens maybe.. But my kids are only 6 and 9. I don't want them to be able to view cocks n stuff

Next you will be telling me that illegally made and distributed porn makers have a union...
Did you not read my earlier post? I said that I appreciate the root cause is what has forced the government to act here.

''Experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre will be given more powers to examine secretive file-sharing networks
A secure database of banned child porn images gathered by police across the country will be used to trace illegal content and the paedophiles viewing it''

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

I have sympathy with you here, but you can contact your ISP and ask them to make your internet child friendly. I know you are a responsible parent, as are most people in general, and all concerned parents currently have the ability to do something about it. It's not like there is no other way for us all to avoid porn.

Do you not think an opt in system would be better than this? (I think there is aready an opt in system in place actually)

I dont watch porn, but if I did I would feel quite embarrassed having to declare to the world that I did in order to watch it. Whereas I wouldn't feel embarrassed asking for a block put on to protect my kids from accidentally finding it.

I doubt the filter will even work properly anyway. Even with safesearch and such on, you still come across the odd dodgy site.

What Jesus. said. Parents ought to be responsible for what their children view on the internet and blocking off an entire system for millions of people is absurd.

It also provides a big brother style list for governments to observe. The people that opt in to watch porn will definitely have their internet viewings far more scrutinised than those who don't.

And the porn block will do nothing to prevent peadophiles from trading and viewing child porn, they'll just find a way around it. It's a poor reason to restrict millions of law abiding citizen's rights and it will ultimately achieve nothing but allow the government a precident in censorship.

Only fools would honestly think that this is a good idea, censorship is never a good idea.

There is probably a lot of truth in what you say there, I totally agree.

Isn't most child porn already traded over darknet? And as such these laws won't even get close to it.

Nah, folk would forget or not bother to switch the porn off, which would make the whole thing pointless. If its just switched off everywhere it makes it safer for kids, and those adults who wish to still watch it can arrange it so..

I appreciate there may be, that said if you google the same word can you be guaranteed not to access an unregulated film?
I was told of a girl yesterday admitted by social services at 14 to a local hospital with iron burns all over her body, trafficked for the sex trade.

Maybe the feeling is reduce the supply reduce the demand I don't know, it may be that it is for child protection services to flag up pedophilia and other sex crimes?
I find it hard to believe this is merely a moral issue.

If they are that bothered by their children viewing porn on the net, they won't forget to turn it off.