David Cameron urges internet firms to block child abuse images

[TW]Fox;24645746 said:
Interestingly 'simulated crime' images will be illegal to view, too. A fairly bizarre form of porn and I cant imagine the sort of person who would want that but will they also be using the same logic to make it illegal to view simulated murder and dismemberment? If not why not? How are movies like Saw still acceptable under this climate?

Surely movies and t.v. have been full of simulated crime since movies and t.v began. Infact are there not Hollywood movies containing such scenes?
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It sounds like all BDSM porn will be blocked too, since that would fall under the "simulated rape" category a lot of the time. What are all the lonely housewives going to do when they get bored of reading 50 shades of grey now?

The government is setting up a precedent to block all content they deem unfit for your viewing. I highly doubt collateral damage is of any concern to them.
 
But the thing is, nobody needs to opt-in because Tor will completely bypass this, meaning you wont get yourself put on some bs list and you wont loose your access to whatever you guys look at.

If the government look after this list, I'm going to do a FoIR and see how many people are on it after so long.
 
Yet another example of the government intervening into places that should be dealt with by parents. And it's the bad ones who support this nonsense. Can't look after your child? Blame someone or something else!
 
I wonder where the filthy paedophiles will go for their 'thrills' when this law does come in?

I'd much rather them get their 'kicks' whilst sat in front of a PC rather than hanging round a playground or primary school.
 
Will be interesting to see what they class as "Adult Content" what happens if someone wants to watch an 18 rated film on BBC iPlayer/Netflix or any of the other media streaming services, won't they have to opt-in?
 
I like the intermingling of "child images", "adult content" and "illegal content"

The last one has me concerned - what is illegal content?
 
Bry said:
I like the intermingling of "child images", "adult content" and "illegal content"

The last one has me concerned - what is illegal content?
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This really annoying me too, normal generic "porn" is being mixed in with stuff that's totally illegal and morally wrong, as though they're unable to draw any distinction..
 
I guess this means that the red tops and other rags will be stopped from putting images of topless women on their websites and pictures of celebrities in bikinis shot with telescopic lenses from 1000 miles away... Adult content and all that isn't it.
 
Google doesn't index child porn sites, and works with governments around the globe to remove sites that do host the stuff.

Microsoft develops PhotoDNA which is highly effective at removing this stuff and is being used by an increasing number of companies such as facebook.

The internet giants are hardly trying to facilitate this stuff.



The only sensible thing Cameron has mentioned is the central database of CP images, but in reality thats quite a simple thing to do, considering the various police authorities already collaborate and have their own databases.

I'm against enofrced restricted access to pornography, and I don't even watch the stuff any more.
 
It won't happen just like plain cigarette packaging, minimum alcohol pricing, GCSE replacement etc etc pretty much everything Cameron says ends up as a U turn
 
Anyone checked if netmums has a discussion on this, Cameron probably just won the female and prude vote.
 
MrMoonX said:
It won't happen just like plain cigarette packaging, minimum alcohol pricing, GCSE replacement etc etc pretty much everything Cameron says ends up as a U turn
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The only policies that don't end up with a u-turn are the ones that deprive vital public services of the budgets they need to do their job, such as the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
 
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