It's not a given that people will revolt against that. There are lots of countries where people just became submissive to escalating moral terror. Now they have to run around veiled and are never allowed to strangers and stuff like that (simplified - just saying, our relatively free western culture is not normal and not something we can take for granted).
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#22What will be extremely interesting is when one of these databases of people who have opted in to receive pornography is leaked. Especially if it contains the names of politicians and other high profile individuals. I believe that's when the issue of privacy will start to be publicly debated and taken seriously.
Shouldn't politicians have extra ISPs that are not being monitored? I think politicians deal with so much sensitive information that they should be exempt from monitoring. Also, how are they supposed to form new policies on porn if they can't check it out unchecked?
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#23I'm annoyed that all the attention is now directed at Cameron as if this whole thing was his idea. It isn't! The Daily Mail have been running a very vocal anti-porn campaign for the last 2 years (at least). Forget child-porn, the Daily Mail have taken it upon themselves to rid the country of every sort of porn imaginable and have proceeded to flood the public concious with their weekly anti-porn propaganda. The funny…
It's probably because the Daily Mail is a newspaper. David Cameron is a prime minister. Those are two completely different things. A newspaper can sit and rant all it wants and be ignored[1] but if an MP/PM says they want to block porn, far more people take notice, likely because it can actually be enacted. [1] Especially if it's the Daily Mail, a crazy, backwards newspaper nobody takes seriously.
Unfortunately the Daily Mail is one of the most read newspapers in the U.K.
How the D.M gets away with preaching about this kind of thing baffles me though, especially because of their "side-bar of shame"
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#24Regardless of if you opt in or out, the ISP already knows if you watch adult content or not, I don't this makes much of a difference in that regard.
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#25What will be extremely interesting is when one of these databases of people who have opted in to receive pornography is leaked. Especially if it contains the names of politicians and other high profile individuals. I believe that's when the issue of privacy will start to be publicly debated and taken seriously.
Shouldn't politicians have extra ISPs that are not being monitored? I think politicians deal with so much sensitive information that they should be exempt from monitoring. Also, how are they supposed to form new policies on porn if they can't check it out unchecked?
Hahahahahah
Yes, and they should be given the right to judge and execute people, because they are in this special uncorruptable position that has the most information so it is best for society that they be able to weed out predators and parasites. They were voted for by the public majority, the voters have chosen! It's only natural!
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#26I hope it leads to more use of VPN and like. The added advantage would be that your ISP and GCHQ can not easily tap into your online activities, and you'll always have plausible cover of using VPN to hide your pornographic habit.
I hope it leads to more people being open about their adult content consumption, personally.
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#27The filter on a well known website for popular file sharing from the main UK ISP is a complete joke: only lesser gifted users are blocked by from getting their daily dose of freebies. Drawing from this experience, one can predict that circumventing this new filter will be a kid's play. If one can be a bit paranoid, one would think this in only a way to expand and investigate the practicality to check the UK population habits on the interweb in order to later on, "direct it".
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#28> I’m completely behind David Cameron being vehement about keeping children and rape out of pornography, by the way. I don’t think anyone on earth is arguing “pro” for that one. I'm "pro" both of those. I believe that people that have a liking for these things will seek to satisfy their desires, and I think it's preferable they do it through porn to them doing that in real life. In other words, I would prefer that pe…
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There are not enough studies into the effect of pornography consumption:
This one claims no effect - ie, that consumption of pornography does not appear to increase the likelihood of rape: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2032762
The one mentioned here claims that cases of rape are decreasing with the availability of pornography: http://voices.yahoo.com/online-pornography-helping-lower-rap....
Clearly nobody likes to think of perverts masturbating to pictures of children, but so long as no children are harmed to make that possible, who really cares?
I would love to see more studies done on the effects of pornography on violent crime - if we can decrease actual cases of child abuse by allowing, for instance, computer generated pornography of that type, then why not?
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#29I'm annoyed that all the attention is now directed at Cameron as if this whole thing was his idea. It isn't! The Daily Mail have been running a very vocal anti-porn campaign for the last 2 years (at least). Forget child-porn, the Daily Mail have taken it upon themselves to rid the country of every sort of porn imaginable and have proceeded to flood the public concious with their weekly anti-porn propaganda. The funny…
This is the same daily mail which regularly features almost pornographic images of children as well right next to their "kill all pedo's" articles. The reason the DM is like it is stems from the fact that this country is full of vile moronic excuses for humans that will mindlessly buy and promote the shite that spews out of the mouths of that paper's writers (if you can call them that). The politicians like these sor…
You must be looking for, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
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#30I'm annoyed that all the attention is now directed at Cameron as if this whole thing was his idea. It isn't! The Daily Mail have been running a very vocal anti-porn campaign for the last 2 years (at least). Forget child-porn, the Daily Mail have taken it upon themselves to rid the country of every sort of porn imaginable and have proceeded to flood the public concious with their weekly anti-porn propaganda. The funny…
This is the same daily mail which regularly features almost pornographic images of children as well right next to their "kill all pedo's" articles. The reason the DM is like it is stems from the fact that this country is full of vile moronic excuses for humans that will mindlessly buy and promote the shite that spews out of the mouths of that paper's writers (if you can call them that). The politicians like these sor…
To put a very fine point on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY
The Daily Mail is quite reprehensible.