UK Govt to restrict online porn access

[Tiberius]

Good point. I like it.

I don't see any problem with that. It'd surely level the playing field to force all internet providers to provide the option.

If you're going to force an option (which I don't support anyway), why not force an opt-in option where the concerned parents can simply call up their ISP and enable the filter? Why do the rest of the law-abiding public have to be put at a disadvantage over something that doesn't affect us at all?

The reason this is opt-out as far as I can see is that parents are fucking lazy, and can't be bothered to look after their own children, preferring instead to rely on the nanny state.

Of course, the government loves control, and this filter is the beginning of a much wider censorship program. That's my opinion anyway. First it'll be porn, then it'll be violent images, then anti-government or protest sites, etc. The government will say "hey, it's not censorship, you can simply phone up your ISP and get access to the data". Of course, the ISP will then have a list of all people who actively sought out porn, violence, anti-government sites, etc, which they will share with the government (or else). Eventually, the option to opt-out will disappear, and we'll be China. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic, but given the nature of the PRISM program and the similar ones our own GCHQ have, I wouldn't be surprised that this was their intention all along.