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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23403068

So the Brits want to block all porn on the internet by default. Supposedly its going to be easy to remove the filters (If anyone knows the process, fill me in) but you have to contact your ISP and request the hardcore stuff (like Wookie gangbangs).

The responsibility of making sure your kids dont see any fisting videos is the parents, or the people who claim to be your parents.
 
This is a good concept. This should be done in the states also. Maybe there would be less rapes than and perverts also.

 
Perhaps reading the article wanamingo linked to would have helped you folks. The intention is to put filters in place by default which offer the user the chance not to have them. That one-off decision is down to the parents and if they don't care what their children see and that ties in with wanamingo's suggestion where the responsibility lies.

The British Government's main concern is child porn - that's not the kind of porn most children will find sooner or later as a major part of their development (we all did it in the days when magazines were on the top shelf if we're honest) but the kind where children are horrifically abused in the making of images to satisfy some perverted lust. Studies have shown that there's a clear link between closet perverts who watch that porn and going on to commit abuse crimes themselves so it's important it's closed down. Most parents will accept the filters on that basis alone.

My personal view is they should hit the uploaders. It's easier to shut down a market stall than to find a few thousand people who are looking for it to go buy something. You can trace their IPs after the searching event then knock on the door to ask what they wanted to find - and why.

Governments have a responsibility to act in matters such as these. Don't conflate that with them trying to close or block torrent sites because they pirate intellectual property and hand it out free - that's another issue. The child porn situation is one that has to be look at in its own right and not confused with illicit downloads.

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My take on this is its not the Governments job to block people from seeing illicit images, it is there job when children are being abused and I agree that steps should be taken to protect the vulnerable. But....

Its your job as a parent to make sure little [strike]Billy[/strike] Nigel isnt watching hours of topless women jumping on trampolines. There is plenty of software out there to filter sites for those easily offended, it seems to me it would be easier for the Brits to subsidize something like that than block all offensive sites.

The really important thing to note here is its not going to stop hard offenders (The real problem). Theyll TOR and proxy, if anything the UK gov has just slowed down their internet connection.

Heres a really crappy wired.uk article:

The British prime minister's internet filters will be about more than just hardcore pornography, according to information obtained by the Open Rights Group.

The organization, which campaigns for digital freedoms, has spoken to some of the Internet Service Providers that will be constructing Cameron's content filters. They discovered that a host of other categories of supposedly-objectionable material may be on the block-list.

As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course.
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