Conservative MP calls for ISPs to filter porn

The Right Honorable moron

Perhaps she should look to the magazine racks with girls teen mags promoting anal sex as a alternative to contraception and such handy articles as "how to give a blow job".
Since many girls idolise such role models as "Jordan" perhaps she should censor so-called celebrities first?
Their example of trash lifestyle and infidelity is the example children are most exposed to. At least with the internet, parents can control what their children see.

By cheysuli on 26 Nov 2010

Nothing about parental responsibility in there.

By james016 on 26 Nov 2010

Time to flush some Puritans down the Atlantic again?

Why, in times of economical and social mess, some idiots still think that seeing a naked flesh here and there is the greatest threat to our civilisation? Want to do something useful about it? Introduce better sex education in schools and educate parents about net safety.

By Josefov on 26 Nov 2010

"although she fails to specify exactly how ISPs should filter millions of different sites."

...Says it all really. She should cure HIV!

By Moorezo on 26 Nov 2010

There's an app for that

Um, if parents don't want their kids to look at porn then for a rather reasonable sum they can put a nanny filter on their PC.

Modern filters can block specific sites, sites containing specific words or phrases, or even use image filtering software that can detect "naked flesh".

Admittedly, trials of the latter have proved erratic to say the least (one infamously blocked pictures of pigs, and Garfield the cat).

I guess what I'm saying is that this isn't an ISP issue, it's a parent issue.

If you don't want your children to see porn, then stop them yourself.

Incidentally, I wonder how the "cinema-style age ratings" would apply to foreign porn sites.

If memory serves, most porn sites are based on servers in the US, not in the UK. How would a British law apply to an American site? Or what about Eastern European porn sites, or porn blogs run by private individuals.

Equally, what counts as porn? Just look at all of those images of children that have been take off of sites like Youtube and so on because they weren't weren't wearing sufficient amounts of clothes.

By Perfectblue97 on 26 Nov 2010

If your elderly relatives were receiving postal mail which preyed on their vulnerabilities in a hope of making money, you would want the Royal Mail to do something about it.

Pornography is increasingly recognised as harmful to young people by psychologists. No generation has been exposed to the amount of porn that is now readily available, and the long term effects are unknown.

ISPs only have to offer the type of selective blocking technology as OpenDNS to give parents a choice.

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By liumimi on 28 Nov 2010

Welcome to the Nanny State

@Perfectblue97

One of the big problems is that most kids know more about filters (and how to get around them) than their parents! But instead of educating parents, they would rather start blocking the net.

Just look at the US Government, they have started hijacking DNS entries for addresses they consider to contain copyright infringing material.

As to "what is porn?" The old English definitions of hardcore and softcore are very extreme, compared to America and Australia!

In America, a naked breast is now considered porn! Australia is very similar, and models with small breasts are banned, because it is considered to be encouraging child pornography (regardless of the models age, the model is 35? But she doesn't have a at least a C cup, so you could confuse her for a school girl...) :-S

It makes American shows, like CSI and NCIS, look ridiculous here, in Germany. Here, if there is a dead body on the autopsy table, the body is naked, in American shows, the actor or actress wears a body suit or lighting is used to blur out breasts or genitalia...

How the coroner is supposed to use a rape-kit on a victim, when she has no genitalia to swab is beyond me... :-S

Noe-puritanism, combined with the nanny state is making mountains out of molehills and taking the responsibility away from where it should be - the parents to educate and care for their children - and moving it to the governmental level...

In the morning to you!

By big_D on 29 Nov 2010

Royal Mail to do something about it.

No, I would not - Absolutely not.

The only way Royal Mail could stop any such post getting through would be to open, read & censor everyone's post - hardly within their remit, I should hope.

Still, 'Will nobody think of the grandparents' makes a change

By greemble on 29 Nov 2010

The job of managing what children can look at is down to their parents, not the government.

I thought all this nonsense had disappeared after Harriet Harmthenation left office?

By bubbles16 on 29 Nov 2010