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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15252128
Voluntary for now, with the four big providers signed up. But might become mandatory in 18 months.
Modesty covers for magazines etc
How long before not having this filtering on your connection will equal 'suspected kiddie fiddler'? |
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Voluntary for now, with the four big providers signed up. But might become mandatory in 18 months.
Modesty covers for magazines etc
How long before not having this filtering on your connection will equal 'suspected kiddie fiddler'?"
That's a bit alarmist isn't it?
It's no different to having porno mags on the top shelf - good idea considering kids can't reach them without being obvious.
This is no different and it's a move I very much welcome as my 13y/o spends a good deal of time online and if it can be ensured that porn can't find it's way to her eyes then I'm all for it.
She can do what she likes as an adult - even make the stuff I guess, but until then I don't want her seeing it.
Good call Cam & Co.  |
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This technology exists already we have been using it for the past 3years.
If parents paid more attention to what their children were upto on the PC this move would'nt be needed. |
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"This technology exists already we have been using it for the past 3years.
If parents paid more attention to what their children were upto on the PC this move would'nt be needed."
i agree.My boys have their own user profile on the lappy and it is only used in the living room.
Some parents want schools,government and companies to do the job they are too lazy to do  |
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im not for it, look at china
the gov meddle in our lives to much, what happend to parental responsability, if you have kids there are many ways to restrict their surfing without big brother getting involved, my worry is what next??? |
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The magazine covers, this will have to include Cosmopolitan - a great source of sex information for teenage boys.
Also the Daily Mail and its website with its incessant bikini clad celebs snogging and saucy stories.
I presume parents who take kids to Europe ensure they never turn on the TV during the day, as while hardcode porn is late at night, naked bodies appear during showerwash adverts.
The morals of a few impossed on many is my concern, and the scope for censorship on a wider scale is very tempting for those in power.
The UK often talks with disdain of the chinese firewall, but this system is so so close. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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i agree that I think you are being a bit alarmist... mobile phones have had adult content blocks on them for years and yet no one bats an eyelid...
and you can't tell me that stuff like netnanny isn't useful...
if there are no children that could use your computer then it really isn't going to affect you anyway...
when you sign up all they need to do is ask are there any children in the household..would you like it activated..
5 seconds... in the grand scheme of things to get worked up over is it really worth it??? |
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"i agree that I think you are being a bit alarmist... mobile phones have had adult content blocks on them for years and yet no one bats an eyelid...
and you can't tell me that stuff like netnanny isn't useful...
if there are no children that could use your computer then it really isn't going to affect you anyway...
when you sign up all they need to do is ask are there any children in the household..would you like it activated..
5 seconds... in the grand scheme of things to get worked up over is it really worth it???"
but is it the start of something more |
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Although it may be mandatory within the next couple of years, this only applies to service suppliers offering the option.
What it doesn't mean, and cannot mean under EU legislation, is that content to adult sites will be blocked to all on a compulsory basis.
People moan on here about the EU and Human Rights, but they give you the right to access adult internet material should you wish to as an adult.
The 'Chinese' model cannot ever be implemented within the EU.
'Option' is completely different than 'Compulsion'....whatever scare stories will appear on it on internet forums and chatrooms.
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The government will charge for the privilege of viewing porn to make up for the loss of revenue in banning smoking etc and high inflation rates that has made people more frugal with spending.
Sites will be forced to charge a members fee because the government will enforce more tax on the site owners eventually.
Just my pennies worth but they'll want tax out of that lol |
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hope the mods dont mind a link from the mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047655/Father-calls-shopping-centre-boycott-quizzed-police-taking-photos-daughter.html
this will be more and more common
I know the guy didnt get done for anything, but not something any of us wants to go through.
we need to stop the nanny state, as imo its gone to far already |
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Have TalkTalk and tried out their HomeSafe.
Guess what viewing fisting and blowjob porn within seconds, and yes system was working as here was blocked.
No technical work arounds required, just a couple of words in google, and see pictures, and then following links, many blocked, but enough not to mean parents will be surprised when they find out what little Mr/Miss have been viewing.
Good marks in that at least some sexual health was not blocked.
Software you elect to install on a PC is very different to network level filtering. Many parents will assume that it is all blocked.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh and it seems Ann Summers was not blocked, so they can view all the toys too."
surely if they are old enough to be curious then they are old enough to see?
they will find a way |
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A childs/teens pc may have an adult filter on it but has their friends?
How many people remember sneaking a look at a friends house at their parents stash of goodies when you were younger?
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this will never become mandatory for you! only for the internet providers to offer the service!
and whats wrong with modesty covers on mags! i can choose what websites i go to on my computer but if i walk in to WH Smiths i have no choice as to what images are on the front cover of a magazine. now it doesn't bother me if there is porn on display but if i was a parent walking in there with my kids i would be really annoyed! |
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"hope the mods dont mind a link from the mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047655/Father-calls-shopping-centre-boycott-quizzed-police-taking-photos-daughter.html
this will be more and more common
I know the guy didnt get done for anything, but not something any of us wants to go through.
we need to stop the nanny state, as imo its gone to far already"
The power of Facebook has got this policy changed across all CSC shopping centres. 21,000 people supported the Boycott Braehead facebook page which forced through a decision to allow parents to photograph their children in CSC malls.
Well done FB. |
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Define porn?
Or as most coverage says 'sexualised content'. Is Cameron Diaz in a bikini on a beach hugging and kissing sexual, if on the front page of Hello?
Cosmopolitan - How to have 100 orgasms a week, top shelf now?
Is a picture of a women in tight pvc to be covered up? If yes, how about sports coverage where women/men wear equally tight/revealing attire?
One persons morals can be very different to anothers. Show a copy of The Sun to people in the US and they are shocked, so perhaps that paper needs to be on the top shelf. |
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I think the telling section was this:
"It's worth noting that those determined to get around a filter will find a way of doing so, often quite trivially," said Mr Lahtinen. "As such, enforced filters are unlikely to deliver significant consumer benefit, whereas helping parents to protect their children helps their customers."
There's a danger that censorship becomes a salve for the sexual repression we Brits have suffered from for long enough. Parents have to take some responsibility to educate their children on sexual matters. It might stop them going looking for it on the internet so much. |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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"There's a danger that censorship becomes a salve for the sexual repression we Brits have suffered from for long enough. Parents have to take some responsibility to educate their children on sexual matters. It might stop them going looking for it on the internet so much."
Spot on! Too many parents let their kids have a PC in their bedrooms and have no filters at all! Our PC was on the room at the back of the house and we were no more than ten feet away all the time. Not that the kids realised, but we had a large mirror on the wall that showed the PC screen to us and we did catch our daughter looking at the gay mens sites!
When we asked her why she was looking at that site (as in porn!) she said "well all the best looking guys are on these sites" She was 13 and had been seeing it on her mates PC. We put a filter on our PC and told the other girls parents. They just said "Well, it's harmless and those blokes are sexy!"
Parents are the problem here, not the system  |
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It is quite simply another step towards an orwellian society whereby everywhere we go, everyone we communicate with, what we consume, what we view is observed, recorded and filed away to potentially be used against us.
When I was 13 I was interested in girls, i would sneak a look at my parents porn stash.....I would also check out girls on the street, in school, on the bus etc... It didn't make me a depraved person. (mebbe a bit of a perv lol)
The more society seeks to repress what are our natural urges the greater the lengths people will go to express these desires and fullfill their needs.
We should embrace our sexuality and enjoy it not try and find more and more ways to subdue, censor and control. |
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"This technology exists already we have been using it for the past 3years.
If parents paid more attention to what their children were upto on the PC this move would'nt be needed."
well like you said if parents were doing a good job then it wouldnt really matter that things are covered up |
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