Governments Porn filters can be bypassed with a Chrome extension.

skolem said:
Nobody is trying to ban it for everyone.
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It's nothing to do with banning porn for anyone. It's about controlling what we can and can't see on the internet for the future.
Look at the bigger picture.
They do it in the name of child protection because unsuspecting (ignorant?) parents think they are helping their children, it starts with porn, then ends up eliminating any thing to do with the 9/11 truth movement, conspiracy theorists like David Icke, Prison Planet and Alex Jones, FMOTL, vaccine truth, getoutofdebtfree, and so on.
They can't afford to have people reading alternate news or any thing that can seriously disrupt their business or power.
It's just another step towards to a totalitarian government.
 
The debate about this in relation to porn filtering is a handy but irrelevant distraction. Of all the major societal issues we have, I doubt the government gives two hoots about porn. The basic principle should be the issue- who is the government to regulate the internet that we have access to? That goes against one of the main principles of the internet as free and un/self-regulated. It's a trivial version of what happens in countries where things like Facebook, Google are blocked- so what's the point? What do the government gain from blocking porn? I think the most valuable thing is the exercise itself, so they can assess methods and flaws, other applications, observe how people react to it, etc.
 
Same idea as Virgin blocking torrent sites - add an S to http and you can access them.

Seems to be a case of implementing it to show they are doing something, but not following up on workarounds.

Regardless, there will always be a way.
 
Easily bypassed anyway, Socks5, VPN's Proxies etc etc...

Porn blocking though lol seriously.

90% of the internet is pr0n.

No Cameron, you can't take away my boobies.
 
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I'm not suggesting that this action is an example of government control/oppression, as such. I just think this has been a useful exercise for them.

As a responsible parent etc, when signing up for an ISP, the most intuitive option would be to opt in to parental control/automatic filtering. There is no reason why this should not be the case. Rather than the other way round. It makes no sense to have an default filter which you have to opt out of. The only possible argument for this would be "We can't trust anyone to protect their own children from exposure to XYZ". That's not right, surely. A parent should be responsible for imposing whatever limits upon their own household- they pay the bills after all. The ability to access pornography etc by young people is not a failing of the internet/ISPs/government. Which is why I think this is not the whole agenda here.
 
Devrij said:
I wonder if this also circumnavigates blocks to torrent sites etc. It is totally laughable that all this money got dumped into this plan, only for it to be sharted out by a simple browser add-on less than a week later.
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on a lot of sites you can just change the protocol from http:// to https:// :p
 
arknor said:
on a lot of sites you can just change the protocol from http:// to https:// :p
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Exactly. No way the government of the United Kingdom spent millions of pounds implementing a system which can be circumvented by the addition of ONE LETTER to the URL, and expect people to not to suspect there's more to it than blocking porn.
 
Doohickey said:
Exactly. No way the government of the United Kingdom spent millions of pounds implementing a system which can be circumvented by the addition of ONE LETTER to the URL, and expect people to not to suspect there's more to it than blocking porn.
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backdoor so they can watch porn in parliment init bruv :D
 
omg children can see porn on-line! ...or walk into any shop and pick up a newspaper and have **** galore shoved in thier face.
 
is there any point in this thread? wow you can get around filters?? never heard of a vpn?
 
Haze said:
is there any point in this thread? wow you can get around filters?? never heard of a vpn?
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Well it's a massive waste of tax money bringing these 'initiatives' in.

History has taught us after the pirate bay was 'blocked', the tax payers money that went into that was money down the toilet.

So now they've done it again with porn...

Mind you, those holding the purse strings easily get confused between Internet Protocol and Intellectual Property, even in unrelated contexts... it's no a great surprise that some buck toothed moron MP is repeating the mistake, again at the expense of the tax payer.
 
mattyfez said:
Well it's a massive waste of tax money bringing these 'initiatives' in.

History has taught us after the pirate bay was 'blocked', the tax payers money that went into that was money down the toilet.

So now they've done it again with porn...

Mind you, those holding the purse strings easily get confused between Internet Protocol and Intellectual Property, even in unrelated contexts... it's no a great surprise that some buck toothed moron MP is repeating the mistake, again at the expense of the tax payer.
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On the contrary, I doubt any money was wasted
 
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