UK has an estimated 80 000 perverts!

The thing about censorship is that the baby boomers who have been in charge of the laws for many decades never really understood or paid too much attention to the internet in the 90's and 00's only now are a lot of them realising their mistake.

For example even though the net has been around since the 90's it's only the last US election that has truly been heavily influenced by it IMO.

It's such a revolutionary thing.

 
jas72 said:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45389937



Eighty thousand !

Is the UK a nation of perverts? I'm quite shocked at this figure but I suppose out of 60 million it's still relatively low. Still the numbers are staggering.

Damn that extra letter in the title !
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That’s low. Previous estimates have put the figure somewhere between 200,000and 300,000 pedos in the U.K. so about one in every 200 men. So statistically the chances are that everybody on here knows at least one pedo.
 
Greebo said:
That’s low. Previous estimates have put the figure somewhere between 200,000and 300,000 pedos in the U.K. so about one in every 200 men. So statistically the chances are that everybody on here knows at least one pedo.
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Worryingly a guy from my workplace got arrested for being a kiddy fiddler (out of 170 employees), maths works:p.
 
Nasher said:
[..] The internet is the wild west and it can't be controlled. They are stupid to think they can make it safe for kids.
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The wild west was controlled. The internet can be too. It just requires a lot more authoritarianism to be applied to it. Children are a perfect excuse for that, which is why they're being used. Terrorists and drug dealers serve that purpose too, but children are the best tool for the job. Big brother works best by using children as their excuse.

As an aside, the wild west wasn't really very wild.
 
It's amazing what kids can be exposed to nowadays compared to what we had when younger. I can hardly even remember life before the internet but the most graphic things we could ever have seen would be movies.
 
Angilion said:
The wild west was controlled. The internet can be too. It just requires a lot more authoritarianism to be applied to it. Children are a perfect excuse for that, which is why they're being used. Terrorists and drug dealers serve that purpose too, but children are the best tool for the job. Big brother works best by using children as their excuse.

As an aside, the wild west wasn't really very wild.
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China have been trying to control it for ages, people still get through their firewall and in to the outside internet. The Chinese government spends many millions on it, but all it takes to defeat it is a single hacker to release some software or a VPN which can tunnel out.

But yes, kids are always the excuse used to implement control measures on the people in the UK.
 
UTmaniac said:
60 million in the UK... Try closer to 66.5 million!
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Ok then I'll try :p

Still 80 000 like looking sexually at kids.

And sorry guys for the pervert paedo mix up. You are of course right perverts must be in the millions.

The story with the eggs I mean what was he thinking? Perhaps he was on stage hypnotised by Peter Powers and it didn't wear off? :p
 
Yadda said:
Yes, "the internet" is wild, as is the real world. My point is, there's no reason why kids should be easily exposed to seeing it. The major platforms could absolutely do more to filter that crap out. Analysis done by "those who know" (forgive me, I'll find the reference tomorrow) showed that many of the obscene images of child abuse circulated were "known images" (not new), which means they could have been taken down.

The same goes for extremist material.

The providers just seem happy to play the "we're just the conduit" card.

Of course there will be dark and even darker corners of the internet, just as there are in the real world, but that doesn't mean everyone on the internet should be exposed to it by default.
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And it will be the providers were just waiting for the government to launch procurement contracts.

Paying the companies cash to solve the problem will work 10 times faster than draconian laws.
 
azazl187 said:
Hang on a sec!? Perverts? Dont you mean Paedophiles? Perverts are very very different....
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Sadly it's only in the past 10-20 years that any difference has been acknowledged, hence why so many got away with it for so long. Back before the mid 90's things like paedophillia, homosexuality and voyurism all used to (wrongly) just get bundled into the sexual deviancy column.
 
I be worried what law or measures they will force them to do, they already trying to make it law that you need to prove your age to watch porn by using some national database which is going to be terrible, it's going to be hacked for sure.

Will I need to input a 4 digit code to browse social media like I do to watch a movie before 7pm or something.

Personally, I think parents should act like parents and control and watch what their children do, understandable it's hard, but you made a choice to have them.

That said, nothing wrong with the platforms putting in safeguards and measures and they seem to already have systems in place, but the government wants more? How far do they want to go before it becomes too much?
 
I remember looking at porn on a 56k modem... The picture would appear in stages and slowly get revealed and alway seem to take ages for the boob part to appear... haha
 
azazl187 said:
I remember looking at porn on a 56k modem... The picture would appear in stages and slowly get revealed and alway seem to take ages for the boob part to appear... haha
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What's the <<BUFFERING>> fastest <<BUFFERING>> way to kill <<buffering>> a hard on??

:D
 
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