UK ISPs To Begin Censorship of Porn Websites 186
An anonymous reader writes "In a plan sponsored by the UK government, four major UK ISP's, Virgin, BT, TalkTalk and Sky, are set to implement blocking of porn websites, requiring subscribers to 'opt-in' if they want to visit blocked websites (or to put it another way, 'opt-out' of internet censorship)."
Blocking porn websites? (Score:5, Insightful)
Good luck with that.
Re:Strangely okay with this... (Score:4, Insightful)
however (having just thought of this point once clicking "submit") it would be far easier, and less expensive to just have the parents, um... parent.
Re:Wrong. (Score:5, Insightful)
Wrong wrong wrong. You have to OPT IN to the filter.
Of course its wrong to have to opt in to pornography, because it makes pornography seem as if it is somehow bad. And the fact that these initiatives are instigated by religious groups is also noteworthy.
Notice also the hypocrisy here. They want to prevent children from watching pornography (according to these people, sex is an exclusive right to people 18 years of age and older), and yet there are no, ABSOLUTELY NONE, restrictions on religious content. Children can be exposed to the bigotry, hatred and irrationality of religious content but something as normal and natural as sexual pleasure is "harmful". Clearly we live in a sick society.