Porn to be opt-in in the UK

[e5]

DAMN!!

[wixard]

omg lol
this has to be a joke

[dbgtz]

how else will i get my pleasure? better make the most of it now.

on a serious note, it is stupid. There are tools to allow parents to block it and its their stupid decision if they dont use them.

[Unarmoured]

They'll always be a site that isn't blocked, I bet this was raised by a woman.

The idea of an opt-in system was raised by Conservative MP Claire Perry in November

Oh look it was.

[Jamesy]

I find this worrying - will they begin pressuring ISPs to filter more sites they don't approve? Governments should not be regulating the Internet like this, for seriously nasty nasty yes I'm all for it. To blanket filter with an opt in is someone else's opinion forced onto us and frankly this is the sort of think that parents should be responsible for! If you give your 10 year old full internet access what do you think will happen, stupid people.

[Eoin247]

I think they want to be more like China seeing how well it's been doing recently lol. I'm in Ireland anyway so doesn't affect me .

[myke]

no doubt people will find a way around it

[Conservative,]

I find this worrying - will they begin pressuring ISPs to filter more sites they don't approve? Governments should not be regulating the Internet like this, for seriously nasty nasty yes I'm all for it. To blanket filter with an opt in is someone else's opinion forced onto us and frankly this is the sort of think that parents should be responsible for! If you give your 10 year old full internet access what do you think will happen, stupid people.

Where did they get the statistic for how many 10 & under have seen porn? I remember not even knowing about it till year 6 when my friend showed me it at his house...

[Alkaz]

Where did they get the statistic for how many 10 & under have seen porn? I remember not even knowing about it till year 6 when my friend showed me it at his house...

It was probably a survey on about 10 boys.
I agree with dbgtz though, there are tools out there for parents to block sites so their children can not view that sort of material. If they chose not to look into it then that's down to the individual parent.

[Conservative,]

It was probably a survey on about 10 boys.
I agree with dbgtz though, there are tools out there for parents to block sites so their children can not view that sort of material. If they chose not to look into it then that's down to the individual parent.

Lol.

I suppose the only argument for it is that children who are tech-savvy can just make themselves an admin on their family computer (or get their own computer) and then from that they don't get blocked...or if they do they can unblock it. But I think there are ways to defend that. This is just censorship of the media which is what we fought against during the cold war?