Sky to Block your favourite sites by default...

TheBDog · 22 Jan 2015 at 10:58

MissChief said:
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!

Stop with the logical, sensible approach!

This is GD after all!

ebilcake · 22 Jan 2015 at 12:30

The Geezer said:
The parent of course as this ruling is to protect the children, easily enforced by the ISP they would run the course and once completed the ISP would turn the interwebs.

Make that a national ruling and only those affected are impacted NOT the whole country

I see, so force parents on a course which they have to pay for.

Do you really think that will work? :rolleyes:

The Geezer · 22 Jan 2015 at 12:45

ebilcake said:
I see, so force parents on a course which they have to pay for.

Do you really think that will work?

If the mantra is "think of the children", then it makes complete sense. It goes with the territory if you are parent.

Surely the course would be in their benefit, pass the course they can have the internet and at the same time they have learned a skill to "protect their children"

.SJ · 22 Jan 2015 at 12:46

ebilcake · 22 Jan 2015 at 13:34

The Geezer said:
If the mantra is "think of the children", then it makes complete sense. It goes with the territory if you are parent.

Surely the course would be in their benefit, pass the course they can have the internet and at the same time they have learned a skill to "protect their children"

But that would imply that they can't access the internet without passing the course? that would be a lot worse than what sky are proposing in regards to limiting what people can access.

Besides with so many families struggling to get by it would be very difficult to force them to go on a course, nevermind make them pay for it themselves.

.SJ said:
Use a VPN. Browse whatever the hell you want.

Why? just login an unblock it. Or is this advice for children wishing to bypass the protection? :eek:

The Geezer · 22 Jan 2015 at 13:55

ebilcake said:
But that would imply that they can't access the internet without passing the course? that would be a lot worse than what sky are proposing in regards to limiting what people can access.

Besides with so many families struggling to get by it would be very difficult to force them to go on a course, nevermind make them pay for it themselves.

Don't see your point, if the decision is based on protecting the children then it makes complete sense only those affected should be impacted not everyone

McBain · 22 Jan 2015 at 19:47

I look forward to the phone call into Sky.

J.T · 26 Jan 2015 at 13:11

And now Talk Talk....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

"Filters will only ever be applied if the customer has consented..."

How can you consent if it's on by default before you have been asked to consent?

pantbash · 4 Feb 2015 at 15:40

J.T said:
And now Talk Talk....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

"Filters will only ever be applied if the customer has consented..."

How can you consent if it's on by default before you have been asked to consent?

This has all come from David Cameron's crusade to make everyone have to opt-in to guff.

As for TalkTalk (and any other ISP) as long as they have asked the subscriber the blocking on/off question somehow, then they have followed the government mandate.

Any new subscriber will be asked if they want it on/off at the point of sign-up of the service.

and as people have said, it's pretty easy to turn off, or bypass, if you so wish.

murah · 4 Feb 2015 at 15:48

yawn, just call them up and tell them to not block anything or change ISP to one with slightly more integrity and backbone

failing that 99.56% of us know how to circumvent all these blocks what does it change?

LordSplodge · 4 Feb 2015 at 15:49

Participant said:
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.

We do? Where does that downward slope end?

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Zatoichi.uK · 4 Feb 2015 at 17:54

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Edward78 · 4 Feb 2015 at 17:57

squired said:
Give it a few years and there will be discussions about making it impossible to opt out of these filters, which by then will be excluding millions of sites that those in power don't like.

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