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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076
Tip of the iceberg. I do wish government would implode in a cloud of shit.
Tip of the iceberg. I do wish government would implode in a cloud of shit.
"I'm not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence."
The implications of this are actually pretty horrible.
Indeed.The implications of this are actually pretty horrible. If you have kids and you contact your ISP to get the filters switched off, what's the next step, a visit from social services? We live in a world where lawmakers have genuinely passed laws so adults are no longer allowed in public parks on their own, its not a big leap to see your ISP records going on a score-sheet somewhere. This think-of-the-children stuff is misconceived (and I say this as a father of two), especially as, if we're being honest, the real "corrosive" effects on childhood have nothing to do with viewed-in-private pornography, and everything to do with the sexualisation of children through advertising and big media. Its far harder to for parents to explain Rhianna (who can't be avoided), than online porn (which can).
"In a speech, Mr Cameron will warn that access to online pornography is "corroding childhood".", Yeah, cause we didn't have access to our daddys porn tapes in the 80s.
Bit different today though isn't it? The porn we grew up with in the 80's are certainly not the same kind of porn kids grow up with today.
Yes. Yes it is.
Or has sex changed, somehow?
I don't know what the social consequences of that are, but I don't think its unreasonable to give parents that kind of filter at the ISP level by default?
Parents can already have that kind of filtering at the ISP level; they just have to ask for it, and its in the sign-up process. I don't understand why that's not enough unless there's a wider agenda.
But then that's because kids know there are absolutely no consequences for their actions these days, which translates to the same in the adult population.You wouldn't buy a 10 year old kid a copy of Machete, but GTA is ok because of ignorance?
idk. For anyone not <18 and living under their parents roof is logging in and unchecking a tick box really that big a deal?
Most parents are fucking ignorant, thats why you have 12 year old shitstains playing FPS games telling people they're going to shit in their mothers cunt, and 8 year olds playing GTA games.
You wouldn't buy a 10 year old kid a copy of Machete, but GTA is ok because of ignorance?
idk. For anyone not <18 and living under their parents roof is logging in and unchecking a tick box really that big a deal?