Britain Introduces Pornography Countermeasures

[Dan Den]

Britain Introduces Pornography Countermeasures

This is for all those who live in Britain, I feel your pain sort of.

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A number of the largest British Internet service providers, including BT, TalkTalk, Virgin and Sky now offer their customers the “opt-in” solution for those who want to receive access to adult content on the Internet. This appeared to be a part of a government-sponsored program intended to protect kids from Internet porn.

The introduced measures are revealed by David Cameron on the 10th meeting with the Mothers’ Union, a Christian charity. Reg Bailey, the outfit’s chief executive, as well as the Department of Education, have received a direct order from the UK’s government to make a review on the commercialization and sexualization of British kids. Earlier this year Bailey published a report titled “Letting Children be Children”, where he suggested a few solutions to protect kids from dangerous material they can find on the Internet.

In addition, the Prime Minister announces the planned changes like restrictions on aggressive advertising campaigns and specific types of pictures posted on billboards. There is even a website called Parentport, which was specifically created for parents concerned about TV programs, advertisements, goods or services that may appear inappropriate for their kids. This website is currently under direct supervision of numerous outfits, including BBC Trust, Advertising Standards Authority, British Board of Film Classification, Press Complaints Commission, Ofcom, and many others.

The report made by Bailey was published four months ago and gained David Cameron’s support. The latter said he very much agreed with the central approach Bailey had set out. Cameron confirmed that the country shouldn’t try and wrap kids up in cotton wool or just lose heart and accept the world as it is. The community should rather look to stop an unthinking drift towards ever-greater commercialization and sexualization of British kids. The creation of this website was Bailey’s first idea to help parents with controlling media and material their children can reach on the Internet.

In addition, it was suggested that the government and business enterprises should join hands and stop the commercialization of improper “adult” clothing for the UK kids. Finally, if retailers don’t make any progress over the problem, they must be forced to change their activity in 18 months.

After reading this I must say that this is rather I do get where they are coming from but we, well most of us grew up with these things surrounding as and most of us turned out ok so why not let these kids discover things on their own rather than having to hear it from someone or something on the line of that.

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[lemmingllama]

According to this, they call pornography "dangerous materials". But still sucks for some of the British, and good for those who dont wana see billboards like that all the time

[RikuoAmero]

I wonder exactly how they'll judge something to be pornography. Will they be using the tribal extremist Islamic method, where if you something other than the eyes, then you're a dirty drooling pervert with no control over his actions (oh and its the woman's fault if she got raped, men can't help it)

[Dan Den]

King Of Spam I'm guessing your enjoying this for some unknown reason.

According to this, they call pornography "dangerous materials". But still sucks for some of the British, and good for those who don't wanna see billboards like that all the time

It will be a shame but that's what the internet is for but I feel sorry for those kids whose parents are going to get this service, I mean now you will have to depend on disks and magazines you get from your local book shop.

I wonder exactly how they'll judge something to be pornography. Will they be using the tribal extremist Islamic method, where if you something other than the eyes, then you're a dirty drooling pervert with no control over his actions (oh and its the woman's fault if she got raped, men can't help it)

I am guessing just everything over 18R will be blocked when you decide to get this service but it might lead to creating some mega perverts like in the example you provide.

[ZeroPenguins]

Well doesn't matter how much the government wants to block, an average knowledge computer person could easily bypass all the filters. This is because the government makes the ISP do crap like this and ISP try to minimise the cost of running it so they do a shitty job.