As Ian Hislop said: "We want the Welfare state but not the nanny state, we want to make a mess and expect the government to clean it up afterwards"demoman_chaos said:Does anyone raise their own kids anymore or has the government been hired as the nanny?
What the UK does have the balls to go though is make BYPASSING the filter illegal. So it doesn't have to be impossible, just actual and even remotely traceable. Then the police can bump up their arrest targets with some easy non-violent suspects. After all, it's hard work going after really dangerous criminals, best bump up the numbers with some soft and easy targets.Jinx_Dragon said:I told this to my boyfriend and he just snorted.
You see, both he and I are networking experts... hell it is our field of training and we are in tech support so sort of know these things. The chances of this block working is less then 0.001%. Even the best software created for one of the more totalitarian nations, and I mean Australia not China, was bypassed by a 12-13 year old kid who has a fraction of the ability my boyfriend does.
The British government does not have a chance.
Don't worry, you don't have to turn into a republican. The trappings of the welfare state are economic (i.e- unemployment, child and incapacity benefit, JSA, minimum wages etc) whereas filtering out porn is more..."social". It is the government dictating what you can and can not do, and thereby a limitation on social freedom. It is certainly not providing any assistance to the people, as opposed to what the Welfare State does.Treblaine said:As Ian Hislop said: "We want the Welfare state but not the nanny state, we want to make a mess and expect the government to clean it up afterwards"
The way I am beginning to see it is the nanny-state is an inevitable part of the welfare state. The government can only have to clean up so much shit, and the flow of shit getting so bad (as those responsible are not paying for it) before the government wants to go to the source.
Oh. Fuck. The republicans where right.
Oh jesus WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE RIGHT?!?!?
Exactly. I thought that this story sounded a bit fishy. How can you just say that you're blocking all the porn? It's like that one clip from Robot Chicken that's not on YouTube...Zeithri said:How is this helping anyone?
This is just so a bunch of stuck up people can be even more stuck up..
Oh wait..
"Pornography sites will be blocked at source unless people specifically ask to view them."
So basically, nothing will be different then!
porn is not being block Per se, it's just a block for those who are under 18.Liberaliter said:This won't happen, people in the UK will still be able to find porn online as easily as they can now regardless of what happens.
And how they are going to do that ?mad825 said:porn is not being block Per se, it's just a block for those who are under 18.Liberaliter said:This won't happen, people in the UK will still be able to find porn online as easily as they can now regardless of what happens.
That is the big, glowing question, right there. This law will not work. Less legitimate porn sites will leap through the technological loopholes of the ISP's blocking software.Dana22 said:And how they are going to do that ?