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http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/12/19/all-internet-porn-to-be-blocked-in-the-uk/

They take care of your health...Next, they control what you say.

Also in the guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/19/broadband-sex-safeguard-children-vaizey

And yet again all internet users collectively have to pay the price for the incompetence of certain parents.


In other words, 85% of computer literate parents are too lazy to spend 30 minutes researching and downloading a family filter (can it be that hard?).  If they really cared that much about their children seeing porn you would think that they would at least spend so much effort protecting them.  
  
So if it's going to be a draconian solution, how about cutting off the internet connection of those responsibility-dodging parents for gross negligence, so that the rest of us internet users can just get on with our business?

creepy story.  wtf...

Governments want to control the internet the same way they control conventional media (TVs, newspapers etc).
They will get there, eventually.
I hope by then systems like Tor, I2P and others are the most user-friendly and widely known as possible, so all sort of "computer-illiterate" people can use them.

I doubt this is about porn.  This is about control.  Porn is just the Trojan horse (no pun intended) to get this ball rolling.

Next it will be wikileaks, then file sharing, then various 'intolerant' media, then Drudge, and pretty soon all we'll be able to access without asking permission is BBC, CBC and CNN.

And somewhere between file sharing and Drudge they'll block bitcoin.org

Exactly; porn is just an excuse to start this process. It should be purely parents' responsibility to install the filters. What if I want my kid to BE ABLE to watch it? :)

OH NOES! YOUR KID WILL BE SCARRED FOR LIFE!

boobies.

For some reason I feel like playing Duke Nukem 3D. :D

This means war. War on freedom.

First they came for the porn...

hehe
Not to mention that trying to block porn from a kid old enough to want it is quite useless... at this age, the kid will probably be smarter than his parents regarding technology, and will bypass any sort of protection.
Parental control protects only against accidental accesses, not intentional ones.

Exactly. I grew up with the internet and I may be scarred but I know how do deal with the rawness of an uncesored medium.  If anything it is my parents who need to be protected from stumbling across goatse.

I wonder when it will be illegal to think about porn....

 ;)

Oops!  I Lost The Game...

It will become illegal just as soon as it can be detected. The detection doesn't even need to be reliable.

Thoughtcrime detected !
Please don't go anywhere, a SWAT unit will be there in few minutes to pick you up.

I'm sure all the sexual libertines on here are going to pound me for this but...
Just because something should be allowed, doesn't mean it is helpful for you.  Poke around here for awhile and read about neuroplasticity and how porn affects your mind:

http://www.yourbrainonporn.com

A link to porn addiction curing centre ?

Just because somebody watches porn, does not mean he is addicted to it.
The same goes with everything. You can be addicted even to chocolate (some women are), but that does not mean that everyone who eats chocolate is addicted to it.

The site's information doesn't jives well with my p0rn experience.

You can detect it easily. Im sure to protect the children everyone will be required to wear bio sensors on their genitals. Every time you think of porn an alarm goes off wherever the pron police hang out....porn will never be the same. :D

Give it a few years.

Anyway, I imagine most alcoholics don't realize they have a problem until long after their friends and relatives realize it.

Or maybe the fact that we spend so much time on this forum with a male:female ratio of 500:1 balances out what is happening to your brain when you visit those 'other' sites. :D

All this talk about porn has led me to take a peak at kiba's progress on his softcore porn drawing of a female anime fantasy version of satoshi:

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/images/previews/p9ODRedZvNe3S2jDHrTsS4crBNQ6V2aa1OEITHyflC83vhw3zgl.jpg
http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/67 (http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/67)

Just sent in .1 BTC for the current full size version.  She's cumming along nicely.  Just satisfied my porn craving.  I can't wait for her to finish.

its a trap  :P

lol

OMG, this is just.... not right.
I mean... what would Satoshi say ? :P

lol, I work at an internet/software helpdesk, yes for some people it can be that hard  :P

I mean a few examples:
- My computer is broken, I hear sound when I put him on, but I only get a black screen
* Do you see a button on your monitor with a circular symbol with a vertical line thru?
- yes
* Can you push on it?
- Whoohoo you fixed my computer

Or:
- The internet is broken, It is not there anymore.
* What you mean? Do you get an error message or something when you try to go on the Internet?
- No, I can't even try to acces it anymore, the blue E icon is disappeared. I only see My documents, bin, My Computer, but no blue E. Can you send a technician?

Or:
- I got a login and password from the guy who installed our internet, but I can't login.
* And where do you try to login? Your email or account page?
- No the email and account page works to login but everywhere else it doesn't
* How you mean, everywhere else?
- Like I said it, everywhere else, for example: -whole bunch of sites-
* Heh that login is only for your email and account, we don't own all the sites on the internet, you got to register on those sites first.

Or I can login to customers there computer to clean up there mess, the only thing they got to do is surf to a site, fill in a code, click run program and click accept. Costs me sometimes 30minutes to get them throe these steps, some people open there browser, get google as startpage and fill in everything on google. Explaining to them where to fill in the url of a site is for them some kind of weird quantum theory.

I can go on for hours and hours with this kind of story's, but believe me, for some people it is impossible to install a family filter  :P

But off course even for those people it is there responsibility if they don't want their kids to see porn to get a family filter, if they can't do it, than go to someone who can do it. It's just a poor excuse to block certain traffic.

Btw my parents didn't knew how computers and internet worked when I was a child and I was 11 or something when I first stumbled on porn. Didn't killed me, didn't traumatise me, I'm a pretty normal person, with a pretty normal sex life, and pretty normal thoughts. And I guess the children now are way more used to see certain things than I was back then.  :D

Give it a few years, and people will be buying hyperrealistic sex robots ... thus pron will disappear from the official internet long before it has been trimmed down to nothing other than 5 government-moderated websites.

+1

You just made me feel like watching Cherry 2000. :D

I bet that if they really do it, annonymous and a bunch of other peeps will deface a bunch of governament sites with hardcore shock porn that would make the goatse guy blush.

porn is bad mmkay!

fahrenheit 451!! they always burn the good books!! ;D

+1

Why wait?

It's not like ever creeping fascism is going to get friendlier if you don't do it.

Does the UK intend to also shut down VPNs, proxies, and Tor? Where there is internet, there will be porn.

Where there are humans, there will be porn (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/erotic-cave-paintings-could-be-37000-years-old-676647.html)