Sky to Block your favourite sites by default...
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As it doesn't exist, no.
LOL at some of the responses! Some of you need to relax and take your tinfoil hat off. Many people were unaware of the Shield. Now they will be. Bad thing? No. Precedent? Possibly. A list of 'possible paedophiles' purely from those opting out? Don't be so bloody stupid!
Perhaps because the types of parents that don't care what their kids do on the internet are the same ones that buy them 18 rated games and let them stay up until the early hours of the morning.
It's the apathy of these types of people which has caused the government to take action.
The internet is no longer a novelty used by enthusiasts, it's an everyday commodity now, it's only right that the government seeks to protect kids in the same way films are classified.
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Give it a couple of years, and all of our computers in the UK will be running this OS. Failure to comply, and it'll be 50 years in a concentration camp.
EE have a similar stupid adult filter on by default policy on both payg and contract. The problem is though even if you turn it off it seems to come back on or kick in randomly. It also filters out loads of sites that do not have any over 18 content. I searched " fixing a leaking asbestos garage roof" and most of the top search results were blocked by the adult content filter! These services should be opt in not opt out especially if they dont even work properly.
You clearly haven't seen the video from the 1970's where a bored, lonely housewife phones a couple of builders to come around and remove some asbestos insulation panels from her garage roof. They turn up just as she's getting out of the shower and she doesn't have the money to pay them
The government knows people (parents especially) tend to leave things as "default" in just about every thing in their lives.
With these filters on by default, they know young people won't end up stumbling across sites such as phoenixtears, prisonplanet, getoutofdebtfree, davidicke, infowars...etc
The last thing the government wants is for the youth to become critical thinkers.
There is always a hidden agenda.
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Easy to turn off for now...
Its not, the Shield is becoming mandatory, so its a waste of time hitting the 'I don't want to use Broadband Sheild' button
Indeed..
My 8 year old stumbled accross some hardcore pron whilst researching 'Steam and it's effect on man', and whilst I had a chuckle over it, and did have a bit of a discussion on how it was innappropriate, I know he couldn't walk into block busters and get access to Pron even if he wanted to, so to me, I can see a small gesture by the ISP now with an easy get out is preferable to them being forced to by changes to the law that bring ISPs and the content they are effectively delivering to your front door from having to permanently filter adult content..
And that's my stance on the whole privacy/freedom thing... we aren't that free, laws are there for a reason, and I prefer small infringements on my freedoms like this, then it escalating to new laws and draconian action when it gets out of hand..
Its not, the Shield is becoming mandatory, so its a waste of time hitting the 'I don't want to use Broadband Sheild' button
Reading the article:
It sounds like you always have a choice, it will be on by default for new users, but it sounds like they can disable it in their settings, and existing users are emailed to allow them to disable it so won't ever see any impact...BBC Article said:
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You haven't thought that through, at all.
People worrying about the thin end of the wedge are massively over-dramatising this. The pros outweigh the cons in that it might stop young children from finding porn if their parents are too lazy or stupid to bring their kids up properly.
Are the 'no' crew really saying that kids should be disadvantaged because of their parents' failings? Everyone knows that you have to cater for the lowest common denominator of society.
The block is on balance a good idea.
No, just type 8.8.8.8 into your DNS settings in your computer or your router. It's that simple...
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so it does, i'll hit the 'I don't want to use broadband Shield' button then.
EDIT: Ive already told them i don't want the sheild, i must have forgotten
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My kids who have net access have K9 Web security installed on the machine, seems pretty comprehensive at blocking stuff to the point where it'll block the content on Minecraft's launcher because it's coming from tumblr...
Its just another pointless exercise in headline grabbing which does nothing to solve the problem it sets out to tackle.
Its just another pointless exercise in headline grabbing which does nothing to solve the problem it sets out to tackle.
that brings back memories, I was watching stuff so blurred in the early 80's, it looked like Bob Ross was giving them a shoulder ride.When I eventually saw the real thing in 'HD' it frightened the life out of me.