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The UK's largest ISPs, including BT, Virgin Media, and TalkTalk, will be called to a meeting next month to discuss the idea. Instead of using parental controls to stop access to pornography by opting out, the goal is to kill off access to pornography in the first place, and then allow adults to opt in. Most British ISPs prevent users from inadvertently viewing child porn websites but ministers want companies to use the technology to block pornography sites unless people specifically ask to view them.
"Unless we show leadership, the internet industry is not going to self-regulate," Claire Perry, a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Devizes, said in a statement according to The Sunday Times. "The minister has said he will get the ISPs together and say, 'Either you clean out your stables or we are going to do it for you'. There is this very uneasy sense for parents of children that we do not have to tolerate this Wild West approach. 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."
The government is pushing for this despite the fact that Internet Services Providers' Association in the UK has found that such a complete block would be expensive and technically difficult. Frankly we think the argument should still be around how effective it would be if it were implemented in the first place.
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princeton said:
Never going to happen. I know it sounds silly but I'd be too embarrassed to call my ISP asking to access porn. Though maybe they're hoping people will be afraid to.
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1.) Great idea.
2.) Expensive? Last time I checked OpenDNS was free. What's the difference?
3.) The internet will def. not self-regulate. Someone needs to start this ball. This isn't internet censorship either; it's just protecting the young pubic.
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This should end well. Guess it's really too much to ask for parents to monitor their computer usage. Let's have the government do it for them.
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1.) Great idea.
2.) Expensive? Last time I checked OpenDNS was free. What's the difference?
3.) The internet will def. not self-regulate. Someone needs to start this ball. This isn't internet censorship either; it's just protecting the young pubic.
Freudian slip?
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Protecting the "Young Pubic", While Upholding the Ideals of The Miss America Purgent"
He said barfingly.
1.) The internet will def. not self-regulate. Someone needs to start this ball. This isn't internet censorship either; it's just protecting the young pubic.I say we should regulate the internet against guest posts containing bad, unintentional puns such as, "young pubic"..!
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This should end well. Guess it's really too much to ask for parents to monitor their computer usage. Let's have the government do it for them.Nah, it's not too much. but while you're inside tweaking the settings on your internet filters, they're out playing stinky finger in the backseat of the car you just lent them.
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I nearly ended up sterile this morning when i read this in the paper (Must put my coffee down in future).
It is abit shocking from are government, but hey, whats new?.
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Will never happen, besides, its easy enough to get around anyway. One of the only good things this country has is a completely open, un-restricted internet.
If it comes to it, I'll ask for full rights regardless of who uses my connection. If I want to view porn, extremist sites and learn how to build a bomb online I will, I pay for the sodding connection.
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Yes but internet IS for porn, haha!
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Yes but internet IS for porn, haha!
Damn straight!
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princeton said:Leeky said:Yes but internet IS for porn, haha!
Damn straight!
I'd love to know the percent of people who actually know where that line came from.
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Dear Lord, I hope the "young pubic" isn't reading this......
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Horray! ....sex is an immoral act after all, it's not like.... natural.....oh wait it is....damn!
We must ensure children are indoctronated with good wholesome propganda from the state , sex bad,war good!
This is a double plus good idea comrades!
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The dongles in the UK have already got it anyway...They always come with, Access Denied on any address remotely involving the letter "X"
It's lucky for porn surfers though because that lock screws around with certain java apps, so it's a good excuse to get them to take it off...
Captaincranky said:Dear Lord, I hope the "young pubic" isn't reading this......
Heh heh...Ahhh, i think this is gunna be a hot topic pretty quickly...Either that or "closed" quickly.
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Access Denied on any address remotely involving the letter "X"
Your connection is restricted?
I've never had one single page refused by my ISP, Virgin Media.
Heh heh...Ahhh, i think this is gunna be a hot topic pretty quickly...Either that or "closed" quickly.Not from me, its sort of following the same subject as per the title....
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Horray! ....sex is an immoral act after all, it's not like.... natural.....oh wait it is....damn!Indeed! Boy have I got a Hong Kong wire movie for you. It's playing in a double feature with "1984".
We must ensure children are indoctronated with good wholesome propganda from the state , sex bad,war good!
This is a double plus good idea comrades!
The dongols in the UK have already got it anyway...They always come with, Access Denied on any address remotely involving the letter "X"What exactly is a "dongol"? I'm getting an image of Genghis Khan, running around with his zipper down.
2 out of Three Ain't Bad.......
If it comes to it, I'll ask for full rights regardless of who uses my connection. If I want to view porn, extremist sites and learn how to build a bomb online I will, I pay for the sodding connection.Would you be willing to settle for a skank with a pipe, even if they didn't make a bomb out of it....?
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mattfrompa said:
Because of the internet. my parents never had to talk to me about sex.
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Leeky siad:
Your connection is restricted?
I've never had one single page refused by my ISP, Virgin Media.
Yeah but is that a dongle?..Over the wires ISP's don't restrict (at least i don't think so), but most Dongle's now come with this "Content Control" lock...I had it both with Vodafone and O2. It can be removed by producing ID at a local store, but it's sort of a "Hat and Shades" thing
Captaincranky said:What exactly is a "dongol"? I'm getting an image of Ghengis Kahn, running around with his zipper down.
Jeez, thanks for that thought Cap..I'm eating my tea here man
.Nah, it's a cell phone sort of device that plugs into a laptop or pc and gives you the web over 3G networks.
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Because of the internet. my parents never had to talk to me about sex.Nor in all likelyhood, will you ever have to tell your children about it
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KG363 said:
Guest said:This isn't internet censorship either; it's just protecting the young pubic.
aka, censorship
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Jeez, thanks for that thought Cap..I'm eating my tea here manSo it's not like, "The Dongol Hoards of Genghis Khan"? .Nah, it's a cell phone sort of device that plugs into a laptop or pc and gives you the web over 3G networks.
Technically though, I think you mean, "dongle"
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So it's not like, "The Dongol Hoards of Genghis Khan"?
Technically though, I think you mean, "dongle"
Hmmm..Don't know what you're talking about there :o...(quick flash round with the edit button i think)...
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Yeah but is that a dongle?..Over the wires ISP's don't restrict (at least i don't think so), but most Dongle's now come with this "Content Control" lock...I had it both with Vodafone and O2. It can be removed by producing ID at a local store, but it's sort of a "Hat and Shades" thing
I have a T-Mobile dongle, and that is unrestricted as well? Unless they just never activated the content lock because it was for me, which is possible I guess. All my phones/mobile broadband are ordered over the phone and delivered next day. Could never be bothered to **** around in the shop.
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Hmmm..Don't know what you're talking about there :o...(quick flash round with the edit button i think)...Some of my jokes are like that, they take a while even for me to get them.
Everything you've always wanted to know about "dongles", but were afraid to ask; [link]
Dongols, Mongols, what the hell is the difference? http://www.squidoo.com/mongol-hordes
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Sarcasm said:
Wait wait wait... There's things on the internet other than PRONnnnn???
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