Porn to be opt-in in the UK

[Catchy]

So if this comes into place I will have to opt in to something to be able to view porn? I am confused... Someone help omg. "Hi mum can we opt in to be allowed to visit pornographic websites" dno how that would go down

[ManCityFan]

I crack one out three times a day so this will be torture if it happens but luckily I live in my own house and will opt in (H)

[Stephen!]

Do I have this right?

If this gets passed and is adopted by my ISP (VM), I will have to ask my dad to enable porn on our account? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick

Most embarrassing conversation ever.

[xxMATTGxx]

Do I have this right?

If this gets passed and is adopted by my ISP (VM), I will have to ask my dad to enable porn on our account? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick

Most embarrassing conversation ever.

Pretty much yeah. You have to contact your ISP to unblock it and I assume you would have be the account holder.

[Catchy]

Pretty much yeah. You have to contact your ISP to unblock it and I assume you would have be the account holder.

Omg that is absolutely CRAP gutted if the law gets passed because our landlord deals with all our internet and stuff...

[Stephen!]

Pretty much yeah. You have to contact your ISP to unblock it and I assume you would have be the account holder.

I'll get stocking up then

[Nli.]

I don't understand why the government feels the need to interfere with things like this.

I feel this kind of decision should be down to the ISP to make, whether they want to implement things like this even something to opt-in to so if some Mumsnet witch wants to block her 16 year old from watching porn in order to protect him from the dangers of it, they should be able to contact their ISP and ask for a block the same as you do with your telephone provider, if you want to block calls to premium rate numbers - you can have blocks put on. I think the same should be here if there is such a need for blocks.

Having controls by default for every user just seems ridiculous. Perhaps the problem lies at lack of knowledge on the parents part, where if they're going to allow their children (we're talking about the younger ones here) to have access to a computer with internet access alone in their bedroom the parents really should have some sort of knowledge about these kind of things rather than running to some governing body to get it blocked. There has been software available for many years to block access to websites with certain content (not just porn) as well as controls within operating systems.

[Tomm]

It is pointless to even consider implementing anything like this due to the fact it is so easy to circumvent. Even if it is implemented it will have zero effect apart from adding a very minor inconvenience to quickly get around the block in a few seconds.

[efq]

Time to go out and find a perm girlfriend guys. Just tie her to the bed (SO SHE CANT ESCAPE, THATS ALL! dirty minds.)

[GommeInc]

Time to go out and find a perm girlfriend guys. Just tie her to the bed (SO SHE CANT ESCAPE, THATS ALL! dirty minds.)

Wouldn't it be wise to have her attractive, female friend tied up too? This is porn afterall, not some 15 minute erotic clip in some 12+ film where it's one on one. More than one person is required to be totally satisfactory

I don't see why this should be opt-in when it's likelt the majority do not care about how things are now and would rather let it be left as it is. If you do not want your child watching porn, there are plenty of filters out there and ISPs could even consider creating filters and selling it as an additional feature for those not tech-wise to do it themselves.