UK Govt to restrict online porn access

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Why can't parents be trusted to take the initiative and install parental control software? Why does the nanny state have to take this into their own hands, when it's clearly going to be badly implemented?

I think this is the crux of the issue.

It's a given that this policy will be implemented poorly because it's basis is so shoddy and ill thought through. It's DC pandering to the daily wail (who are already touting this a victory for them btw!) who have been demanding for years that porn be blocked outright in every household.

If this comes into effect it will create the presumption of guilt on otherwise normal households, and there will be so many holes (landlords - will tenants have to ask landlords to remove the filter from their Internet in, for example, student households?) that it will create mountains of red tape and bureaucracy form the backlog of contests that will arise as a result.

And all this is an aside from the core issue that the government will effectively be legislating itself a right to determine what is good and what is bad to watch on the Internet with no clear boundary as to how this will be enforced or where the buck will stop. It's impossible for us on this forum to determine what the boundaries should be for us a very small collective, so imagine what it will be like trying to determine a boundary for 70+million people.

Here's an idea; want to stop paedophilia, or at least try and prevent it? Remove the taboos on discussing it, and move away from automatically labelng those who may find themselves attracted to children as 'evil'. Research into paedophilia is laughingly sparse considering how much of a topic it is for the average person on the street. We need more, and we need to stop driving people underground and bring them into the light without the stigma of the media circus that now surrounds even the slightest hint that someone is a paedophilia. Asking people to opt in for porn on the Internet is such a shit tactic I'm willing to bet that DC and co wrote it down on a legal pad before a cabinet briefing one day after legalising gay marriage and seeing how the daily fucking mail reacted to it (not forgetting that the daily mail is one of the most homophobic pieces of shit excuses for a newspaper there is).