Consultation on internet adult content measures

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Consultation on internet adult content measures

Firstly, I refuse to use official title from the BBC

"Consultation on child internet porn measures" - as it's quite misleading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17951067

How do we all feel about this?, it seems they have still not dropped this stupid idea & the Tory nanny state (something which they strongly criticized labour for) is back in action for round two.

Why should the government be doing the protecting in this case (stopping children from looking at adult material) - when already people can ask the ISP to block or, not buy the kid a PC & parent them while they are on-line).

I thought the Tory's were all for "personal responsibility"?

It's pretty sad that the economic conservatives of the UK are being dragged into supporting US style social conservatism.
 
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This seems to be the same link.

Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman said "keeping children safe online is a real problem and a concern for millions of parents".

She said: "We need to work closely with the industry to develop blocking technology which is easy to use and effective so that parents have the control they need to protect their children."
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As usual, a politician who doesn't really understand how infeasible it is.

Also, Harman is a Labour politician, so you can't really put it down to a just a "Tory nanny state" elmarko.
 
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This seems to be the same link.



As usual, a politician who doesn't really understand how infeasible it is.

Also, Harman is a Labour politician, so you can't really put it down to a just a "Tory nanny state" elmarko.
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Did I say it was exclusively just the Tory's?.

The are in power, they are pushing this agenda - they are the ones who should be held to task over it.

I'm well aware that Labour initiated the "nanny state" ideology, but I'm also aware that during that time it was HIGHLY criticized by the Tory's & the right in general (who are now continuing the legacy).
 
Argh! naked people! protect the children!


Now then, where's my giant rolleyes.gif....
 
Well whilst you don't want your kids stumbling across stuff by accident I can't help but feel if you restrict access when they do go looking actively then they are more likely to find stuff that your really wouldn't want them to see if you push everything underground. Having said that what is readily available now is not exactly as tame as the magazines that got passed around the playground when I was kid. Maybe parents could supervise their children responsibly - I guess that's always a possibility ...
 
Well my mother used to make time to sit around me and my younger brother when we were on the internet.

Why can't parents do this now? It's their responsibility at the end of the day.
 
Number_25 said:
Well my mother used to make time to sit around me and my younger brother when we were on the internet.

Why can't parents do this now? It's their responsibility at the end of the day.
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More to the point, even if they can't sit down with the kids, if they spent half an hour online themselves, they could work out how to set up internet content measures themselves.

kd
 
The software is already there to stop kids getting access online, this is more to do with eventual total censorship. If the parent was that bothered 30 mins on the kids computer will be locked down sufficient enough for safe browsing.
 
dsb said:
The software is already there to stop kids getting access online, this is more to do with eventual total censorship. If the parent was that bothered 30 mins on the kids computer will be locked down sufficient enough for safe browsing.
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Exactly my point with it all, besides ISP's already offer this service - I fail to see why the government feels the need to stick it's oar in on these issues.
 
So lets say:

Parent A requests access to Porn so they can fap away.

Child of parent A can then watch porn freely.

This idea is just silly.
 
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