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Subject: Online pr0nz to be filtered in the UK

"Right now it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus is, hilariously, orbiting the sun sideways while Venus spins backwards. We sit here on a planet marked with collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until the sun grows and leaves nothing of the earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, and we say "Behold the perfect ORDER of it all!""

Online -blam!- to be filtered by default in UKSave the children! UK Prime Minister David Cameron wants -blam!- filters to come on, by default, in any British houses that have children in them.

"A silent attack on innocence is underway in our country today, and I am determined that we fight it with all we've got," wrote Cameron in today's Daily Mail.

The system Cameron promises will be in the works by February, when British ISPs will have to present plans for how they will present the filter options. Every owner of a new computer will be asked when they log in through their Internet service provider if they have children in the house. If they answer yes, it will immediately prompt them to set up filters blocking content, individual sites, or restricting access at particular times of day, according to the Mail.

If those options just get clicked through rapidly, filters that keep out -blam!- and "self-harm" sites will be "on" by default.

Cameron's pledge seems to be a response to a vocal campaign by the Daily Mail, a century-old British tabloid with a daily readership of more than four million. The newspaper has been pressuring British politicians to filter Internet -blam!- for most of this year, with screaming headlines like "Children Grow Up Addicted to Online -blam!- Sites," "How Internet -blam!- Turned My Beautiful Boy Into A Hollow, Self-Hating Shell," and "Online -blam!- 'Is Turning Children Into Sex Attackers'."

A headline in the same newspaper earlier this week trumpeted a study allegedly showing that online -blam!- "can make you lose your memory."

The newspaper is taking credit for the announcement as well. Today's Daily Mail accompanied Cameron's essay about the new "filter by default" policy with a headline crowing: "Victory for the Mail! Children WILL be protected..."

Cameron's promise to filter Internet traffic by default replaces an earlier suggestion in which, rather than prompt parents to set up filters, the filters were simply already turned on. "All the evidence suggests that wouldn't work very well in practice," said Cameron. He gave the example of one parent who tried to access things like TV stations on demand, but found they were blocked as well. These "blanket filters" will just get turned off, he said.

That automatic block was rejected by Cameron's ministers earlier this week. Opposition politicians accused the government of "bow[ing] to pressure from the Internet industry, which is opposed to restrictions on the lucrative -blam!- sector," as reported in the Daily Mail. "The fight MUST go on: Furious charities hit out after ministers refuse to order an automatic block on Internet filth," read the headline.

Conservative Member of Parliament Claire Perry will take charge of making sure the system gets implemented. She said the age checks would probably involve using credit card numbers and electoral rolls to make sure kids can't get around the new system.

The UK proposal is reminiscent of the years-long effort to install -blam!- filtering by default in Australia. That plan was finally abandoned in November.

"All this comes back to something really important. It's not just about the Internet, or modern technology-it's about childhood," Cameron concluded in his announcement today. "These should be distinct and precious years, full of security and love, untainted by the worries and complexities of adulthood."


Well Cameron just lost all of his male supporters.

Really though, why should the Government intervene and filter it for everyone, when in reality parents should really learn how to watch what their child is doing on the computer?

  • 12.21.2012 11:34 AM PDT
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Why So Serious?

"I'm gonna go America all over everybody's asses!"
-Charlie, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Nanny state in action.

  • 12.21.2012 11:35 AM PDT

Stupid.

  • 12.21.2012 11:37 AM PDT

The Wonderful LeSieg!

While my initial reaction is to balk at such interference, I do think that the rise of the internet has given kids access to all sorts of content that they wouldn't have been able to get a hold of in such variety and volume.

There is some crazy stuff out there that no one really benefits from seeing, much less children.

  • 12.21.2012 11:37 AM PDT

'Merrica Master Race

  • 12.21.2012 11:38 AM PDT

Oh lord, we must save the children!

  • 12.21.2012 11:38 AM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

I will have a new retort when UK Floodians say "LOL 'Murrica, you have no freedoms".

  • 12.21.2012 11:40 AM PDT
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LeaveItYeah

David Cameron. Probably the biggest viewer of adult material in the UK.

  • 12.21.2012 11:40 AM PDT

Maybe filters should be required, but are off by default.

  • 12.21.2012 11:41 AM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
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David Cameron. Probably the biggest viewer of adult material in the UK.

I was thinking the same thing XD

  • 12.21.2012 11:42 AM PDT

This world wants to drag you down... And the weight, that guilt they want to hang around your neck, you don’t have to carry it one more step. You think they won’t let you rest, but it’s not up to them. It never was.

I don't see why this is a problem. They're not forcing everyone to stop watching the stuff, but rather they're just providing the tools to parents to keep this content away from their children.

[Edited on 12.21.2012 11:43 AM PST]

  • 12.21.2012 11:42 AM PDT

If people want to raise their kids a certain way it is their own damned business. Whether a child is in the house or not, it should not affect the way the ISPs treat you.

  • 12.21.2012 11:43 AM PDT

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Steam name should be something similar

The ISPs around here ALREADY have options for parental controls. Most ISPs do. It's the parents fault if they don't set it up, not the government.

  • 12.21.2012 11:44 AM PDT

If we disagree, it's nothing personal, opinions are opinions.
Antagonizing me to build a false sense of worth is so damn cute.

Brighten your day with science.

Posted by: LeSieg
While my initial reaction is to balk at such interference, I do think that the rise of the internet has given kids access to all sorts of content that they wouldn't have been able to get a hold of in such variety and volume.

There is some crazy stuff out there that no one really benefits from seeing, much less children.


This.

  • 12.21.2012 11:45 AM PDT

I used to be indecisive, but now i'm not sure.


Posted by: Fat Man 3000
parents should really learn how to watch what their child is doing on the computer?

Exactly!
Parents could easily just make a rule that the computer should not be used while they're alone.


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  • 12.21.2012 11:46 AM PDT

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Please not ireland oh god please not ireland

  • 12.21.2012 11:47 AM PDT

"Right now it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus is, hilariously, orbiting the sun sideways while Venus spins backwards. We sit here on a planet marked with collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until the sun grows and leaves nothing of the earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, and we say "Behold the perfect ORDER of it all!""


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Posted by: Fat Man 3000
parents should really learn how to watch what their child is doing on the computer?

Exactly!
Parents could easily just make a rule that the computer should not be used while they're alone.


It's just so easy.

Make it so a password is required to go on the computer so they can't go on the computer without the parent around.

A simple ctrl+H do see what their child has been doing.

Why should the Government implement these filters because some parents are too retarded to figure this easy stuff out.

  • 12.21.2012 11:48 AM PDT
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Go go gadget nanny state!

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Posted by: Fat Man 3000
"Internet -blam!- Turned My Beautiful Boy Into A Hollow, Self-Hating Shell,"


This is a load of barnacles...

  • 12.21.2012 11:48 AM PDT


Posted by: Fat Man 3000
It's just so easy.

Make it so a password is required to go on the computer so they can't go on the computer without the parent around.

A simple ctrl+H do see what their child has been doing.

Why should the Government implement these filters because some parents are too retarded to figure this easy stuff out.

You act as if they aren't going to erase their history.

  • 12.21.2012 11:49 AM PDT

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Like someone else said, there is some stuff on the Internet that no-one wants to see, let alone kids. If you're planning on using the Internet, you have to be careful to not find these things, and if kids can't do that themselves then their parents should help them.

  • 12.21.2012 11:50 AM PDT

"Right now it is raining methane on Titan. The planet Uranus is, hilariously, orbiting the sun sideways while Venus spins backwards. We sit here on a planet marked with collisions, rocked by earthquakes, shaken by storms. A planet doomed to be fried in radiation as its magnetic fields collapse, until the sun grows and leaves nothing of the earth but dust. Here we sit, glasses on our noses, inhalers in our pockets, braces on our teeth, and we say "Behold the perfect ORDER of it all!""


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Posted by: Fat Man 3000
It's just so easy.

Make it so a password is required to go on the computer so they can't go on the computer without the parent around.

A simple ctrl+H do see what their child has been doing.

Why should the Government implement these filters because some parents are too retarded to figure this easy stuff out.

You act as if they aren't going to erase their history.


You act as if the main reason this filter is going to be implemented (children) will know how to erase their history, or even know about it.

But I'd expect a parent, the one buying the computer, to know the basics like that.

  • 12.21.2012 11:50 AM PDT

First they ban Rooty Tooty Point and Shooties from the public.
Now they ban Nancy Panty Tapey Wapey from the public.

U WOT M8?

  • 12.21.2012 11:50 AM PDT

The Wonderful LeSieg!


Posted by: Fat Man 3000
Why should the Government implement these filters because some parents are too retarded to figure this easy stuff out.
Or maybe they're so caught up in paying the bills, maintaining a job, saving for the future, and generally accepting responsibility for everything else they simply don't have the time or understanding to keep up with what's out there, or they simply can't fathom that they're child would be so readily exposed to the things that they think that only they're privy to.

Education of parents is key, and giving them usable tools to efficiently and quickly monitor their children is essential in the culture of the internet today. Is it the government's role to bring in those tools? Maybe, maybe not. But the tools need to be there, need to be accessible by all, and need to encompass and deal with the insane number of ways children are able to get on the internet and view everything it has to offer.

  • 12.21.2012 11:51 AM PDT


Posted by: Fat Man 3000
You act as if the main reason this filter is going to be implemented (children) will know how to erase their history, or even know about it.

But I'd expect a parent, the one buying the computer, to know the basics like that.

Unless they have a program to block pr0n websites or watch their kid while they use it then they can easily just erase their history. I am sure there are plenty of kids that will know how to erase history at that age. Hell I knew about it before it was commonplace.

  • 12.21.2012 11:53 AM PDT

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