[letmein]

A conservative member of the British Parliament has made a move to block all pornography from reaching Internet subscribers in the UK.

The British government plans to meet with Internet service providers in the country next month to discuss the idea of censoring all Internet connections and requiring users to specifically request access to pornographic materials from their ISPs.

Not surprisingly, children are being trotted out as the reason for this mass censorship. Said Conservative MP Claire Perry to the Sunday Times, “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.”

It’s a slippery slope the British government will be navigating here. Who will decide precisely what porn is? Will ISPs be required to install bare-skin-detecting software, and if so, who will pay for that? Will instructional videos such as breast-feeding demonstrations be considered porn? And how will British subjects feel about adding their names to a list of people who specifically asked for access to pornography?

Even though the Internet Service Providers’ Association in the U.K. said it would be expensive and difficult to block porn, the British government is pressing for this action.

One other question: Wouldn’t it be better for parents to be the ones who decide what their children can and cannot watch rather than the government? Where are the parents in this equation?

What a mess. Let’s just hope this insanity doesn’t spread across the world. We can be slightly reassured knowing that European ISPs are slightly more radical than their stateside counterparts when it comes to censorship.

http://mashable.com/2010/12/19/uk-porn-ban/

[Shaun]

pmsl, good luck with that

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i hope they die

[Niall]

HA have fun trying to do that David.

[Jack_]

No thanks.

Can you imagine if Patrick was here to see this?

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Scott

i hope they die

Same here.


I don't think life would be the same without Fratmen :'(

[Niall]

Originally Posted by JackFrost

No thanks.

Can you imagine if Patrick was here to see this?

He would explode.

(And no not in the sexual way )

[ILoveTRW]

Originally Posted by JackFrost

No thanks.

Can you imagine if Patrick was here to see this?

where did patrick go anyway?

[Smithy]

Patrick had a breakdown

Just look at his wall (He's called Dasher atm)

[Niall]

Originally Posted by ILoveTRW

where did patrick go anyway?

He randomly said he was leaving after he did the National TiBB Awards.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by ILoveTRW

where did patrick go anyway?

I don't know. I miss him

[Niall]

Originally Posted by JackFrost

I don't know. I miss him

Same

You can tell how much more quiet it is without him *sigh*

[BB_Eye]

What a great way to use taxpayers' money in the "age of austerity". Setting up a ridiculously costly scheme that most likely wouldn't work anyhow.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

good idea. porn is the source of all evil. it leads fantasist to become so obsessed they confuse fantasy with reality and create crimes, it disrupts children, spurs on paedophiles....what what being boring again..rewind......block porn are they insane???????????????

[InOne]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

good idea. porn is the source of all evil. it leads fantasist to become so obsessed they confuse fantasy with reality and create crimes, it disrupts children, spurs on paedophiles....what what being boring again..rewind......block porn are they insane???????????????

Bollockssssssssssssssssssss, be quiet.

[arista]

Originally Posted by JackFrost

No thanks.

Can you imagine if Patrick was here to see this?

But all they are doing is stopping it for young kids
which means mums and dads try to install it.



Also we have Conservative-LibDem Coalition in power.

[Jords]

Surely new sites would just be made? o.o

[billy123]

This is a recycled story of the digital rights act that labour crammed through parliment on the last few days of their goverment supported by the conservatives.

The blocking of porn sites is only a small part of what this act involves it also included the three strikes and your out rule which means the goverment wanted to make all isps responsible for what their subcribers looked at and downloaded on the internet and give them permission to snoop on us. All isps apart from AOL (suprise suprise they are owned by warner studios) have objected to it and are currently taking it to court to get it over ruled.
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8...ebill-to-court

The digital rights (economy) act is the equivalent of the post office opening all your letters to read them and make sure you arent breaking the law it is another erosion of human rights that unfortunately people dont seem interested enough in to do anything about. there was a europe wide petition to try and stop this happening but people dont seem to give a crap until its too late and it effects something they care about i.e. porn and that is one of the least important parts of this.

sad really how few people realise what the implications of the digital rights act and how few have even heard of the gallo report and how it was backed by the signatures of some of the biggest music producers in the world yet when asked they said they hadnt signed it and one of the signatures on the gallo report was from somebody that had died 5 years before they signed it.
fraud on a grand scale.

Youtube video

[Grimnir]

they make take our money and our jobs and our country, but they'll never take.....OUR PRON!!!!!

JESSICA ALBA GU BRATH!!!!!

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Grimnir

they make take our money and our jobs and our country, but they'll never take.....OUR PRON!!!!!

JESSICA ALBA GU BRATH!!!!!

yes. how very dare they take our pron

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12041063

In response to the government proposal, Nicholas Lansman, secretary general of the Ispa industry body, said: "Ispa firmly believes that controls on children's access to the internet should be managed by parents and carers with the tools ISPs provide, rather than being imposed top-down."

Mr Lansman said its members provided parents with many different means of controlling what is accessible via the computers in their homes.

"Online safety is a priority issue for the internet industry and ISPA will be discussing the options available to protect children with Government," he said.

"ISPs currently block child abuse content which is illegal and widely regarded as abhorrent," said Mr Lansman. "Blocking lawful pornography content is less clear cut, will lead to the blocking of access to legitimate content and is only effective in preventing inadvertent access."

BT, the UK's largest ISP, said it would be "happy" to take part in any discussion of the issues, but added: "There are many legal, consumer rights and technical issues that would need to be considered before any new web blocking policy was developed."
Filter failure

"Unfortunately, It's technically not possible to completely block this stuff," said Trefor Davies, chief technology officer at ISP Timico.

He said the sheer volume of pornographic material online and the number of ways that people access it, via the web, file-sharing networks, news groups, discussion boards and the like, made the job impossible.

Mr Davies also feared that any wide-scale attempt to police pornographic content would soon be expanded to include pirated pop songs, films and TV shows.

"If we take this step it will not take very long to end up with an internet that's a walled garden of sites the governments is happy for you to see," he said.

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