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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just read on The Irish Times website that Pat Rabbitte could follow the UK and ban Internet porn in Ireland through your internet service providers. This could mean websites like Fab Swingers.
Their reasoning behind it is that porn poisons childrens minds. I agree that it does put the wrong idea and images in a kid or teenagers mind about sex. But if parents were thought properly how to block these sites manually through their own computer (which is not hard) then i think this problem could be stopped.
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over a year ago
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I thought there would be an option to have filters put on instead of an all out ban, seems a bit extreme? Looks like sex shops might not go out of business after all! |
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They cannot ban it because it is completely legal to view pornographic material on the Internet in the UK and Ireland , what the government is doing is making Internet providers automatically activate your adult content filters when they provide you with an Internet connection , all you have to so is contact your provider and tell them you wish to de activate your filters and you're back to normal.
Initially it will be all new contracts that are affected but in time all existing contracts will have their filters activated meaning you will then have to deactivate them but contacting your provider |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Pat rabbite has said he has no intension of banning it or using the same system as the UK......then again he could be lying.....but he'd never do that would he ??  |
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Over here (UK) it will work as Trixie describes. ISPs will automatically block porn, much the same as my mobile provider does. It is up to me to prove I am over 18 and want content unlocked just as I had to do with O2. This will be for new ISP accounts at first but roll out to everyone.
Its actually a clever bit of political spin. Appear to be doing something but actually not doing a lot.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Over here (UK) it will work as Trixie describes. ISPs will automatically block porn, much the same as my mobile provider does. It is up to me to prove I am over 18 and want content unlocked just as I had to do with O2. This will be for new ISP accounts at first but roll out to everyone."
Uuum , isn't that what I already said ?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Over here (UK) it will work as Trixie describes. ISPs will automatically block porn, much the same as my mobile provider does. It is up to me to prove I am over 18 and want content unlocked just as I had to do with O2. This will be for new ISP accounts at first but roll out to everyone.
Uuum , isn't that what I already said ?
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Indeed it was - I said Trixie instead of Nutty I apologise.
However I was also demonstrating that this is already what happens with Mobile Providers so it isn't such a big deal to get ISPs to do it as well.
If it is designed to stop perverts, sexual predators et al from accessing this content then it obviously won't...they will just get the content lock removed  |
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Yep that's very true , from what our "wonderful" PM said in a radio interview yesterday it's predominantly set up to stop children accessing porn but if the parents remove the filter for themselves then its not going to work anyway , the government also want the ISP's to block search results for violent porn such as rape scenes or paedophilia but for some reason the ISP's are resisting this on the grounds of freedom to search |
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Someone like Ray Bradbury or Aldous Huxley who wrote a brilliant short story where everybody was allowed into the library to remove a book they thought should be censored.... the library was empty by the end. Censorship is never in the peoples interest, education is, so you can make your own mind up about the political priorities. |
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I did hear the Senator for somewhere on yesterday saying she wanted it and a Internet expert suggesting that the most technologically aware demographic are teenagers. Not only are they techie minded but if one finds a way around a block, then 30 seconds later 300 of his friends know the get around.
So the Senator for wherever can now go and stop the sea from coming up the beach. Its about as effective.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Tip for the day:
Tell your kids that you log everything that passes through your wifi router and make sure they don't have the admin password for the router. I've never looked at the log but I know it works. |
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