UK to Block All Online Porn

[GommeInc]

How will the rape porn law thingy work for graphic films which depict rape like a clockwork orange?

In theory that's not available to watch freely on the internet and if it is, the Copyright Law will vouch for that. However, due to the contradictory nature of this porn law, the fact pornography and scenes like rape in films like this exist and continue to exist would mean the Government should just ban these from sale, just for the sake of protecting a minority from this sort of material.

All in all, the porn opt-in law should just not exist, and the Tories who are meant to be anti-nanny state (but have never committed to removing such restrictions) are yet again proving why they should never have been voted in. Have ISPs block it upon request if parents want to block it, or ask ISPs to offer their customers advice on how to make the most out of anti-adult-content software. It's so simple and cheaper than pushing through a law which will cost millions :/

[Chippiewill]

To all those who have backed other anti-freedom laws such as the smoking ban, fatty foods ban, spying on citizens, ID cards, chipping, and fingerprinting - you just got served. I told you they wouldn't stop at just taking away freedoms that you happen to not engage in or dislike, and that they would come for yours too - and they have. Well done and fully deserved.

Under the same line of thinking we can justify citizens legally having nuclear weapons because we're allowed butter knives. CLEARLY a line needs to be drawn somewhere.

[Firehorse]

David Cameron is really all over the place with this announcement, it's a mess. You can really tell that he has done no research whatsoever.

He is arguing that it will stop child pornography, it's not even the same thing! Child pornography is already outlawed and should already be hard to obtain, it's already filtered by the likes of google and ISP's. Blocking ALL porn is a totally different matter.

You see these interviews http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401646 and it is so unclear what they're even talking about. They're getting two completely different entities mixed up. Legitimate porn is all consensual and it's the parent's responsibility to stop their children from having access to it. Child porn on the other hand is a completely different matter, a step too far.

I don't get where all this has suddenly sprung from. There's been no news about an epidemic of children accessing pornography.
It looks like our country will now fall in line with so many other countries that have porn outlawed, and notice that human rights aren't exactly top notch in most of those.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Under the same line of thinking we can justify citizens legally having nuclear weapons because we're allowed butter knives. CLEARLY a line needs to be drawn somewhere.

Indeed. But I don't regard pornography or cigarettes as being on the same level as WMD.

[dbgtz]

David Cameron is really all over the place with this announcement, it's a mess. You can really tell that he has done no research whatsoever.

He is arguing that it will stop child pornography, it's not even the same thing! Child pornography is already outlawed and should already be hard to obtain, it's already filtered by the likes of google and ISP's. Blocking ALL porn is a totally different matter.

You see these interviews http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401646 and it is so unclear what they're even talking about. They're getting two completely different entities mixed up. Legitimate porn is all consensual and it's the parent's responsibility to stop their children from having access to it. Child porn on the other hand is a completely different matter, a step too far.

I don't get where all this has suddenly sprung from. There's been no news about an epidemic of children accessing pornography.
It looks like our country will now fall in line with so many other countries that have porn outlawed, and notice that human rights aren't exactly top notch in most of those.

I partially blame Claire Perry, she sounds like an absolute nutter when it comes to this. She has no real source or backing to her claims and constantly spews out crap. I would comment on an exact example, but the article I was thinking of appears to removed any trace of her

[Chippiewill]

Indeed. But I don't regard pornography or cigarettes as being on the same level as WMD.

My point was to show there was a line, not that the line was WMDs.