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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 noja »

bigiain wrote: post #93
cskau wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> > 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!

And the inevitable google-bombing and re-definition of various words. Anyone googled "santorum" recently? The Wikipedia article has a nice rundown on how a US Senator's name ended up thus: 'The word santorum, as defined, has been characterized as "obscene", "unfit to print", or "vulgar".' I eagerly await the day a Google image search for "David Cameron" starts returning furry-rape-sex pictures, and "Conservative Part…

Perhaps 4chan will come to the rescue! I'm sure "Cameroning" will take on a new meaning soon :)

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Post by coldarchon »

shin_lao wrote: post #84
conroy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A 2011 survey found that 80% of 18-24 males in the UK had watched porn online[1]. I'm comfortable assuming that a significant percentage of Tories have or do watch it as well. [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12918531

And 20% lie about not watching it...

Dr. Cox from Scrubs:" I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!”

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by wfn »

weavie wrote: post #148
chmodd wrote: post #121

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

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

Now see, that's why everybody should use Tor now and then! :) That way this unique characteristic will become common enough for a generic filter on Tor users to become ineffective (by their measures). If you don't want to be seen connecting to Tor directory authorities and to relays directly, use a Tor bridge. Better yet, run one yourself! If you are using obfuscated bridges, you can (as of now) fool even pretty sophisticated DPI boxes which won't be able to fingerprint your traffic. (cf. continued Tor developers' battles with China's intense DPI infrastructure)

https://cloud.torproject.org/

https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges#RunningABridge

Honestly though, "Tor user" will probably remain an interesting / valuable (by their standards) enough heuristic for a long time to come.

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by goggles99 »

Yeah, porn should be at the fingertips of every man woman and child. Porn leads to healthy lifestyles and healthy sex lives, cultures and communities.

Just look at life before porn existed. Never any healthy societies or sexual relationships then - they did not even exist. What harm could porn possibly cause anyone? Putting into someones mind a fantasy of how sex really can and should be? How could that ever cause any future sexual relationship to suffer in any way?

How could putting sexual assault video or images into any 10 year old's mind - images that they will never come out, how could that ever cause any potential problems with their natural sexual development? Inconceivable.

People in a truly free country should be able to get their free porn on YouTube whilst buying their methamphetamine (legally) outside (or even inside) of the local welfare office. Now that it the country that I want to live in...

Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by [deleted] »

ibotty wrote: post #138
gilgoomesh wrote: post #27

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It's extremely difficult to quantify negative impacts or get people to accurately recall what they may or may not have seen. It's almost as difficult to approve studies on children. This study: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2005.8.473 Showed a correlation between children who seek out porn on the internet and delinquency. However, there's no indication of causation.

questioning authority is a good thing though.

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Re: David Cameron cracks down on online pornography

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Post by marshray »

aunty_helen wrote: post #142

This would be a good segue into blocking anonymising proxies as well. For the kids of course.

Good luck with that. Not even Pakistan was able to get away with blocking VPNs, and VPN protocols make absolutely no attempt at being difficult to block.
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