RE: UK Govt to restrict online porn access
July 23, 2013 at 4:19 pm
(July 23, 2013 at 2:48 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Interesting point. I'd assume no because we all know that the aim of this legislation, at least prima facie, is to prevent paedophilia online (as if).
Yup, considering 99.999% of child pornography is only accessible over Tor, which means ISPs can only block access to it by blocking Tor connections, which if it ever happens, would escalate the level of filtering up from "privacy invading and a pain in the ass" to "China"
(July 23, 2013 at 4:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Apologies if i wasn't clear. I was talking about web filtering software not being readily available for mobiles.
Don't give your kid a mobile phone with Internet on it then. I think many of the mobile carriers already have opt-in options for content filtering; I know T-Mobile do because I've seen the setting on my account.
Quote:Surely this is the point... it's the hardcore stuff that needs blocking. The soft stuff just controlling better. It'd be good to see the end of 4chan and chat roulette in kids circles although the nature of the medium makes it difficult. Plus we have a culture already grown to grow out of.
The problem is, there is no way of blocking either the hardcore or the softcore stuff. You can block as many actual porn websites that you want, but people are re-uploading these things all over. You can upload a .gif animation of hardcore porn to sites like imgur.com (which are mainly used for sharing suitable-for-work images) and post it somewhere on the web if you wanted to. How is the government going to block access to that?
