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David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by joshuak »

This is, stupidly, in direct opposition to the trend towards a popular understanding of "power exchange" relationships.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/books/fifty-shades-of-grey... (not even a new idea)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493829.SM_101

Dear Mr. Cameron, you just saw how the gay marriage issue went and you where quick to jump on board. You really want to be on the wrong side of this issue?

Beware the Red Menace--er I mean child pornography (insert fear of the moment mongering here).

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by Proleps »

foobarbazqux wrote: post #20

Personally speaking I would be glad to have this filter, but I wouldn't want to force it on other people. So if people got a choice about enabling the filter I would be okay with it, i.e. if it was opt-in. In that case it's providing a service to people who need a human barrier to help them stop looking at porn if they have a problem. Any preventative mechanism that you set up for your own sake is pointless when you…

There would be a list of people who want to be able to watch porn (which could be used for black mail). It would also require a lot of infrastructure to be set up for this kind of censorship. That infrastructure could easily be used to start blocking other content.

Besides if you want to opt-out of porn you can already install filters on your computer or your router if you want to.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by _mulder_ »

shanelja wrote: post #7

This is a move to shame those who watch pornography, that you have to ring someone up and say "Yeah, I'm trying to jack off here but for some reason pornhub won't load... Yeah... Uh... I'd like you to remove the porn filter please?"

No, this is just a demonstration that it's really the Daily Mail that runs the UK.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by rralian »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #90
bhickey wrote: post #8

Meh. I doubt the Tories have a clean house in this regard. Every time some politician or other 'moral leader' starts pontificating about moral panic, I get suspicious that they're just trying to ban their vice. Clearly if they're so vocally opposed to it, they mustn't be partaking, right? Glenn Loury and cocaine. Mark Foley and the exploitation of children. Eliot Spitzer and prostitution. John Ensign and 'family valu…

Spitzer was a dem who became a target of banks and credit institutions afraid of his cracking down on their anti-consumer business practices. He was Elizabeth Warren before Elizabeth Warren, and deserves more respect than to be pigeonholed as a politician with his pigeon in a hole. From Wikipedia: "Spitzer used this authority in his civil actions against corporations and criminal prosecutions against their officers."…

I worked for a company that Spitzer went after while he was attorney general, and he seemed more like he was running a political campaign than trying to uphold the law. He very effectively spread FUD through a willing media in order to coerce a settlement (and headlines). To this day, people in my home state are convinced that company did all sorts of things that they were never actually accused of. He was no prince.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by xentronium »

adamnemecek wrote: post #13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children can't believe that people still fall for this shtick

In Russia we have a special commission that bans every internet page containing anything relevant to suicide and drugs. For example, famous australian ad "Dumb ways to die" is banned in Russia. Yeah, seriously, these guys have zero sense of humor. Apparently, it's to protect children from killing themselves.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by hackerboos »

conroy wrote: post #12

> Every household in Britain connected to the internet will be obliged to declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography These declarations will only be used to shame public figures once the list is leaked. > The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed. Video footage of two consenting adults, acting out a scene, will be illegal to own. With t…

> The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed.

Can we expect films such as "I Spit On Your Grave" and "Once Upon a Time in America" to become illegal also?

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by weavie »

chmodd wrote: post #121
Yver wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A single search can now land you on a government list of accused pedophiles. The other day I used Google to find info about a movie called "How to Make Money Selling Drugs"[1]. As I typed the words, I thought to myself "I hope that doesn't get me on a government list." I can't imagine having to think twice before Googling "Lolita"[2]. [1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/reference [2]: http://www.imdb.com/title…

I now do searches like this using Tor Browser. Just in case.

That probably doubles your chances of making it onto some list.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by _mulder_ »

yenoham wrote: post #38

TL;DR - "Yea I guess, but..." Personally I don't have huge a problem with the default filtering; most households (with or without kids) don't have the knowledge to effectively enable filtering for all their devices - giving them 'protection' by default, and allowing the option to have full access is currently what most - maybe all - mobile phone operators do in the UK anyway in 3G/GSM connections. However, its import…

Accessing the Pirate Bay?! We can't allow that... if only there was a compulsory National filter where we could block access to these corrupt sites.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by orblivion »

cskau wrote: post #39
conroy wrote: post #12

> Every household in Britain connected to the internet will be obliged to declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography These declarations will only be used to shame public figures once the list is leaked. > The possession of "extreme pornography", which includes scenes of simulated rape, is to be outlawed. Video footage of two consenting adults, acting out a scene, will be illegal to own. With t…

> > The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is to draw up a blacklist of "abhorrent" internet search terms to identify and prevent paedophiles searching for illegal material. > A single search can now land you on a government list of accused pedophiles. Also, I foresee a sudden rise in rickrolling along the line of: Funny Cat Video!

Might be a good countermeasure. If people are bold enough in numbers, everybody put the evil words into Google search, rendering the data useless. Though it'd have to be done on a regular basis, which is not going to work out.
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