Universal Porn Filter Coming to the U.K.

[luvd1]

You can tell there's an election brewing. Now stop piddling about Tory boy and get back to the economy you ineffective, creedless, vacuous, joke of a man. You make my blood run cold at the thought of your ineptitude.

 

[Kmadden2004]

So what are the chances that perfectly reasonable, non-pornographic sites that feature adult content get caught up in this universal filter?

Sites such as... say... deviantART?

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Okay, I am confused. Since when was porn considered something that would ruin a child? I remember seeing my first porn mag at the age of 7. I didn't become a mass murderer or serial rapist.

Really? Mine was at age 9. Thanks to my tiny child brain, I had no idea what was going on in the pictures.

As Heinlein once said, "Censorship is like telling a man he can't have steak because a baby can't chew it."

 

[deonte9109]

There might be a way to make it hard on the gov't.
Step 1: Opt for access to porn sites
Step 2: Create a folder on your computer labeled with the name Porn, CP, or some other potentially incriminating title
Step 3: Fill created folder with several Gbs worth of videos of Rick Astley or other troll worthy videos (make sure the videos are super long and are loops)

When the FBI ,or whatever is the British equivalent, search your computer somebody has to sit down and watch all of the videos from start to finish.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

So how long is it going to be before dave decides to add on other things he finds distasteful like maybe sites for other political parties, or protest groups.

I really wish i could afford to leave this fucking shithole of a country!

 

[Syan]

This political show is probably a smokescreen to introduce more ways to monitor internet usage in the UK now that the existing methods have been revealed and are surely partly illegal.

Should watch the lettering of this law very closely to see if the blacklist can be updated quietly in the future.

First porn to 'protect children'.
Next it'll be stuff vaguely to do with 'terrorism'.
After that it will be 'things that could cause offence'.

OH HAI CHINA, WE <3 U HERE IN THE UK.

 

[moggett88]

If David Cameron thinks having to make a phone call asking for porn is going to stop me, he clearly isnt aware of how much porn I consume.

Also, while I get that child porn is a horrible, horrible thing, I think there are more pressing issues in the UK - just counting my immediate family, weve been the victims of 5 attempted muggings in the last 5 years. How about doing something about that, Mr. Cameron?

 

[Machine Man 1992]

Another thing is how will this work (it likely won't) with social networking sites like twitter, tumblr ect there is porn on them to. Are people going to have to opt out of having them blocked to even if they use them for you know talking to people and not porn.

See that's what I'm worried about. What's going to happen to sites that host porn but aren't porn centric. Let's take reddit for example. Reddit has plenty of stuff that isn't porn, but it hosts a lot of subreddits that are porn-centric. Wonder if they'll block the whole site or what. Hell even youtube has some mature content, which while not porn could be considered more suggestive. Are they going to shut down youtube too?

Its more likely that sites like Reddit and Youtube who are not porn focused but do have some mature content won't be effected as the Tories and their advisers just don't get the internet and its nuances, and thus they won't of even heard of things like Reddit or Tumblr.

Then I imagine Reddit is going to be getting a whole new set of british users, and the filter will prove pointless. I'm curious to see if 4chan will be blocked.

Seeing as how 4chan is basically the headquarters of Anonymous, I doubt the block would be there for long.

 

[hedges1001]

welp rather than ***** about this i decided to write my MP by e-mail. and then ***** about it

 

[bjj hero]

Nothing get's under my skin more than a politician hiding behind children. Notice, he mentioned "secretive file-sharing networks". Now I wonder what he's talking about when he says "file-sharing"...At least have the guts to say what this is really about.

This fucking country sometimes...I wish more than anything I had the kind of money to move out, but unfortunately I'm stuck with a ridiculously conservative nation that doesn't give a single iota to what "I" want.

But hey, it's all about the children, everything we do is to protect the children, right?

Don't worry kids, you can still see naked ladies on page 3 newspapers. He's already specifically said he's not touching the newspapers, which makes it all the more obvious this has nothing to do with porn.

It looks like page 3 is on the way out, there is a group at the sun being put together at the moment to suggest what it can be replaced with (my suggestion is news).

If you want your views considered vote and become politically active, form groups, lobby your mp.

I dont feel strongly on this. Its not a ban, you just have to request adult content
Were all adults so wheres the problem? Unless youre not. Then its aimed at you.

 

[moggett88]

You can tell there's an election brewing. Now stop piddling about Tory boy and get back to the economy you ineffective, creedless, vacuous, joke of a man. You make my blood run cold at the thought of your ineptitude.

I would say hes more of a shambles than a joke - I never found him funny.

 

[SLasher797]

1.) this shit never works. my school tries blocking all of the gaming and "bad" sites out there. Everybody still manages to play games on their school laptops. Hell, this entire site's devoted to gaming and I'm typing this on my school's laptop.

2.) WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT WE GOT RID OF THIS KIND OF LEGISLATION WHEN THE U.S. TRIED PASSING SOPA AND PIPA.

3.) Wouldn't it make more sense to simply give more power to the agencies that are supposed to bring down sites hosting child porn and rape porn? This way you can combat illegal sites without imposing on their citizens rights.

 

[Verlander]

I'm pretty certain that this won't go through for as long as we're in the EU - having to sign up to a sex register for unrestricted access to the internet isn't exactly the sort of thing they go for.

 

[Dominic Crossman]

Dr. Cox really does put it best
.

This^^^
You know there are problems that actually relevant, like having terrorist and hate preachers in the UK who we won't deport because of their "human rights".
My question is where are their victims' human rights?
With issues like this, how the hell can censoring porn be protecting us when our soilders are stabbed to death and ran down in the middle of London or the attacks of 7/7 kill dozens of people.
I'm not polictal but I've had it with the coalition.
Sorry for going off topic, the blindness the goverment has to bigger issues just comes to mind when they start doing trivial, unimportant stuff like this.

Captcha: no-brainer
Lol

 

[Antari]

Control the internet ... without shutting it off. Good luck with that Mr Cameron, your going to need it.

 

[SerBrittanicus]

As others have said I find this type of thing rather offensive, but if Mr. Cameron thinks he can successfully censor all the porn I wish him luck in his endeavour.

I'm pretty certain that this won't go through for as long as we're in the EU - having to sign up to a sex register for unrestricted access to the internet isn't exactly the sort of thing they go for.

Whilst they have been rather good about appearing outraged about matters such as the US spying on us I wouldn't be so sure that they would stop this kind of thing considering they spend millions of pounds setting up groups to trawl the internet looking for anti EU content. And they do love state interference in every facet life, so I again I wouldn't put it past them supporting this.

But surely the social liberals won't stand for this. Personal freedom is one of their bullet points.Hell its the whole embodiment of the social liberal ideology. And I cant really imagine labour helping out the conservatives on this either, so how are they going to get it through parliament
Can someone that follows british politics better than me please explain this?

The only reason Labour wouldn't support this is because the Tories suggested it, but the leader of the Labour party is currently one of the weakest politicians this country has ever seen and well I imagine he may very well support to make it look like he is one of the good guys. I do find it amusing how a lot of the people on this site think that the Labour party wouldn't be supportive of such measures considering state interference and state control are two of their core tenets. Also the Tories won't need Labour if their whipping boys in the Lib Dems (who are in coalition with them) decided to do what Cameron tells them to do.

Wait, this guy is conservative? Aren't conservatives supposed to be against empowering the government more than it already is?

Regardless, I have a feeling Google DNS is going to become very popular in the UK very quickly.

No he isn't a conservative. That is the name of his party - it isn't his political position, which coincidentally is why he is currently haemorrhaging support to UKIP.

Didn't the UK suffer BOMBING RUNS from fascists like Cameron?

You'd think, after killing enough Nazis, that they'd have been wiped out.

But, I guess Cameron and his ilk show that Nazis are like cancer.
Just when you think you've beaten it...it comes back.

Why is he a Nazi? Surely Communist would be a better fit considering that their use of censorship was and is much more widespread than the Nazi party (who only briefly existed in Germany and a few other states for a very short period of time). The communists are still doing it today after all and even in the UK their are groups like Antifa who are extremely supportive of such measures.

 

[Me55enger]

I don't recall Labour winning the election. Odd.

This is parental incompetence masquerading a saving a childs' innocence. It is a parents duty to make sure thier child is aware of both the joys and dangers of growing up, not some greasy-haired man who had the political determination of a hagfish.

Also: From what I recall about the UK political system (aka, form living in the UK) This still has to get alot of passes before it is law. The plain cigarette packaging scheme and the staple price for a unit of alcohol also started off with this amount of fervor. Both are no longer coming into effect.

 

[bz316]

Oh Cameron you poor, dumb bastard. You've finally hit the trip wire people will not tolerate. 1st rule of politics: go after any civil liberties you want, but NEVER, EVER go after peoples' right to the porn...

 

[MCerberus]

Why is he a Nazi? Surely Communist would be a better fit considering that their use of censorship was and is much more widespread than the Nazi party (who only briefly existed in Germany and a few other states for a very short period of time). The communists are still doing it today after all and even in the UK their are groups like Antifa who are extremely supportive of such measures.

Because communism is an economic model and "Nazi" is generally short-hand for fascist?

 

[Andrew_C]

There might be a way to make it hard on the gov't.
Step 1: Opt for access to porn sites
Step 2: Create a folder on your computer labeled with the name Porn, CP, or some other potentially incriminating title
Step 3: Fill created folder with several Gbs worth of videos of Rick Astley or other troll worthy videos (make sure the videos are super long and are loops)

When the FBI ,or whatever is the British equivalent, search your computer somebody has to sit down and watch all of the videos from start to finish.

The "Extreme Pornography" laws are so badly worded that they WILL find something on your computer or in your browser history that they can charge you with. And they will.