UK to block internet pornography by default

[mynameisbob84]

This is truly pathetic...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

If you're an adult who lives in the UK and you want to look at images of naked consenting adults doing rude things to one another from the comfort of your own home, you won't be able to, unless you contact your internet provider and tell them that you're a dirty pervert and would like them to let you look at porn on your computer.

I applaud them for wanting to eradicate child pornography from the 'net but this isn't the way to do it. Any porn that features simulated rape is also being banned outright. Search engines will also no longer bring up any results at all for certain words and phrases (it doesn't specify what those phrases will be).

Some key quotes from the article...

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.

Mr Cameron warned in a speech that access to online pornography was "corroding childhood".

The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers.

This was also mentioned and I wonder how it will impact cam sites...

New laws so videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops

 

[Jupiter551]

If you're an adult who lives in the UK and you want to look at images of naked consenting adults doing rude things to one another from the comfort of your own home, you won't be able to, unless you contact your internet provider and tell them that you're a dirty pervert and would like them to let you look at porn on your computer.

But...you ARE a dirty pervert :lol:

I think they should put a compulsory yes/no checkbox on electronic or paper forms asking would you like to view adult (18+) material?
And then a second part saying if you answered yes, and you have children under 18 you accept legal responsibility that they won't view or have access to the adult matierials under penalty blah blah of act so & so...

They could be emailed to all subscribers (presumably the parents) asking them to log into their online account management thingo, as well ass added to new service applications.

This way you give people a choice, one that makes them aware of their responsibilities if minors are around, but essentially leaves consenting adults to do as they wish.

 

[Brad]

Can video games and rock music be far behind?

 

[Kokoro]

Thank God I don't live in the UK anymore.

 

[NataliaGrey]

I can understand having to opt in to porn. I think it kind of sucks, there are plenty of awkward people out there who aren't going to want to be identified as someone who likes porn. Hopefully it's just like a checkbox as Jupiter suggested, and you don't have to actually call and talk to a live person. I could definitely see that making a lot of people feel nervous and judged.

I hate that stimulated rape will be completely banned. Again, I get it, you can't really tell if it's stimulated or real, but there are plenty of reputable companies out there who put out this content. It's not fair to punish the innocent just because the guilty can't be identified.

 

[geralddonald]

Silly season political posturing. I'd be very surprised if anything came of it at all.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

I predict VPN sales and ads will increase dramatically in the UK. Why bother to 'opt in' when you can just bypass their filters all together. The providers shouldn't know what you are doing in the first place.

 

[emptiedglass]

Can video games and rock music be far behind?

I have no objection to this if they block Justin Bieber (although I don't live in the UK). :lol:

 

[Bocefish]

I have no objection to this if they block Justin Bieber (although I don't live in the UK). :lol:

I'd support a world wide ban on Bieber. :thumbleft:

 

[Shaun__]

I do not even want Bieber blocked, no one should tell adults what is morally okay for them to watch.

 

[Aella]

This is horrific.
Now there will be a compiled list of those who have chosen to watch pornography.
What about adult children living with their parents?
OR POLITICIANS. OH MY GOD. THOSE POOR POLITICIANS.

and no more violence against women? dafuck, some of us like kink.com or motherless.com. Fucking fuckers, it's not women's liberation if you're removing a woman's option to enjoy the porn that she wants to enjoy, and goddamnit flogging and rough gangbangs are hot.

faswjfaowej im so mad and I don't even live in the UK

 

[Bocefish]

Another government threatening jail if you don't answer their intimate sexual questions...

 

[VeronicaChaos]

One step forward, three steps back. -_-

 

[Jupiter551]

Another government threatening jail if you don't answer their intimate sexual questions...

That's weird that they would ask such objectionable and explicit sexual questions - would have been nice if they had said what the questions were. I've had to answer questions for security clearances about my sexual orientation, my girlfriend at the time and whether she was a foreign national, what foreign countries I'd visited in the last 10 years etc. I didn't find those questions particularly intrusive. I mean even if they ask how many times you and your wife have sex each week - as long as their ID says who they say they are (and you can ask to see the question on the sheet if you're really concerned) just answer the damn question, even if it's once a week, or 0 times a week, the surveyor seriously doesn't give a shit.

 

[sweetiebatman]

The only thing that should be blocked in the UK is David Camerons smug overbearing, elitist, jobs for the boys-bonuses for the bankers fuxking face...

I hate the guy with a passion, but every political party is full of the same old middle of the road bullshit

 

[Bocefish]

Another government threatening jail if you don't answer their intimate sexual questions...

That's weird that they would ask such objectionable and explicit sexual questions - would have been nice if they had said what the questions were. I've had to answer questions for security clearances about my sexual orientation, my girlfriend at the time and whether she was a foreign national, what foreign countries I'd visited in the last 10 years etc. I didn't find those questions particularly intrusive. I mean even if they ask how many times you and your wife have sex each week - as long as their ID says who they say they are (and you can ask to see the question on the sheet if you're really concerned) just answer the damn question, even if it's once a week, or 0 times a week, the surveyor seriously doesn't give a shit.

If you don't mind some government employee asking you and your wife questions like how many sexual sexual partners she's had... that's fine. A lot of people, including me, would tell them to go pack sand because it's none of their damn business. You don't see any problem that the government is threatening to fine or jail people for not answering personally intimate, private questions?

 

[Anonymous]

I have no objection to this if they block Justin Bieber (although I don't live in the UK). :lol:

I'd support a world wide ban on Bieber. :thumbleft:

There's only one Justin for me..... :romance-interracial: :romance-heartbeating:

 

[Rose]

Another government threatening jail if you don't answer their intimate sexual questions...

That's weird that they would ask such objectionable and explicit sexual questions - would have been nice if they had said what the questions were. I've had to answer questions for security clearances about my sexual orientation, my girlfriend at the time and whether she was a foreign national, what foreign countries I'd visited in the last 10 years etc. I didn't find those questions particularly intrusive. I mean even if they ask how many times you and your wife have sex each week - as long as their ID says who they say they are (and you can ask to see the question on the sheet if you're really concerned) just answer the damn question, even if it's once a week, or 0 times a week, the surveyor seriously doesn't give a shit.

If you don't mind some government employee asking you and your wife questions like how many sexual sexual partners she's had... that's fine. A lot of people, including me, would tell them to go pack sand because it's none of their damn business. You don't see any problem that the government is threatening to fine or jail people for not answering personally intimate, private questions?

I would be angry if someone asked me how many times I had sex and how. Maybe I don't want it or maybe I want it all the time. My body, my business. Nobody else has to live in my body so they don't get a say.

Next thing you know they'll be collecting everyone's poops for inspection. What if I'm constipated? Are they gonna fine me?!?

 

[Just Me]

Another government threatening jail if you don't answer their intimate sexual questions...

That's weird that they would ask such objectionable and explicit sexual questions - would have been nice if they had said what the questions were. I've had to answer questions for security clearances about my sexual orientation, my girlfriend at the time and whether she was a foreign national, what foreign countries I'd visited in the last 10 years etc. I didn't find those questions particularly intrusive. I mean even if they ask how many times you and your wife have sex each week - as long as their ID says who they say they are (and you can ask to see the question on the sheet if you're really concerned) just answer the damn question, even if it's once a week, or 0 times a week, the surveyor seriously doesn't give a shit.

If you don't mind some government employee asking you and your wife questions like how many sexual sexual partners she's had... that's fine. A lot of people, including me, would tell them to go pack sand because it's none of their damn business. You don't see any problem that the government is threatening to fine or jail people for not answering personally intimate, private questions?

Certainly crazy and ridiculous but don't forget in the US every 10 years we are required to answer some questions people find intrusive. I can't imagine the census ever having questions about your sex life etc but when you read the law it doesn't appear that they couldn't add questions like that. As with the Australian Bureau of Statistics the only thing the law disallows is asking questions about your religion. I think it is bad science and statistics if they are compelled in anyway.

221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.

(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body. Sec. 222. Giving suggestions or information with intent to cause inaccurate enumeration of population Whoever, either directly or indirectly, offers or renders to any officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof engaged in making an enumeration of population under subchapter II, IV, or V of chapter 5 of this title, any suggestion, advice, information or assistance of any kind, with the intent or purpose of causing an inaccurate enumeration of population to be made, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Here is a link to the questions from the 2010 census. http://www.census.gov/2010census/about/interactive-form.php

 

[Misono]

Just an ironic statement in fairness, seeing as Cameron is probably the biggest wanker of all.

And I say that as someone who would normally vote Tory.

 

[Airwolfe]

Wow Jupiter555 Australia is such a fascist, shithole, police state. How can you stand to live there?

 

[Bocefish]

Certainly crazy and ridiculous but don't forget in the US every 10 years we are required to answer some questions people find intrusive. I can't imagine the census ever having questions about your sex life etc but when you read the law it doesn't appear that they couldn't add questions like that. As with the Australian Bureau of Statistics the only thing the law disallows is asking questions about your religion. I think it is bad science and statistics if they are compelled in anyway.

I worked for the Census Bureau in both 2000 and 2010 in a supervisory capacity and as an enumerator. The most intrusive personal question I can recall was what their occupation and salary amount was. You meet some rather interesting people and the gamut ranged from being propositioned for sex to having guns pointed at me. Some people would rather pay the max penalty fee of $100 in protest instead of answering 10 basic questions like how many people lived there. That's a far cry from Australia's $170 per day and/or going to jail for not answering intimate sexual questions. As far as being compelled... If there wasn't some sort of penalty for not answering important basic questions, a good majority of people would just file it in the circular trash bin.

 

[Brad]

And while I do not know what other countries do with the info, I do know that in the US there is a 72 year wait for the census records to be made public. The only reason I know that is from using the Ancestry site.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

Wow Jupiter555 Australia is such a fascist, shithole, police state. How can you stand to live there?

They let their government take away their guns so they don't have a choice anymore.

 

[mynameisbob84]

Wow Jupiter555 Australia is such a fascist, shithole, police state. How can you stand to live there?

They let their government take away their guns so they don't have a choice anymore.

Cos if they had guns, they'd... shoot their way out of the country? :?

 

[CallMeWilliam]

Looks like Canada might be next....

Manitoba Conservative MP Joy Smith plans bill that would pre-emptively block pornography...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... nipeg.html

 

[SexySteph]

Certainly crazy and ridiculous but don't forget in the US every 10 years we are required to answer some questions people find intrusive. I can't imagine the census ever having questions about your sex life etc but when you read the law it doesn't appear that they couldn't add questions like that. As with the Australian Bureau of Statistics the only thing the law disallows is asking questions about your religion. I think it is bad science and statistics if they are compelled in anyway.

I worked for the Census Bureau in both 2000 and 2010 in a supervisory capacity and as an enumerator. The most intrusive personal question I can recall was what their occupation and salary amount was. You meet some rather interesting people and the gamut ranged from being propositioned for sex to having guns pointed at me. Some people would rather pay the max penalty fee of $100 in protest instead of answering 10 basic questions like how many people lived there. That's a far cry from Australia's $170 per day and/or going to jail for not answering intimate sexual questions. As far as being compelled... If there wasn't some sort of penalty for not answering important basic questions, a good majority of people would just file it in the circular trash bin.

On top of that, US's intrusive questions like salary are rather important statistics. They can actually be very useful. Questions like "How many sex partners have you had?" What are they gonna do, sell the statistics to Cosmo Australia? People shouldn't have to answer questions like that.

 

[Jupiter551]

Certainly crazy and ridiculous but don't forget in the US every 10 years we are required to answer some questions people find intrusive. I can't imagine the census ever having questions about your sex life etc but when you read the law it doesn't appear that they couldn't add questions like that. As with the Australian Bureau of Statistics the only thing the law disallows is asking questions about your religion. I think it is bad science and statistics if they are compelled in anyway.

I worked for the Census Bureau in both 2000 and 2010 in a supervisory capacity and as an enumerator. The most intrusive personal question I can recall was what their occupation and salary amount was. You meet some rather interesting people and the gamut ranged from being propositioned for sex to having guns pointed at me. Some people would rather pay the max penalty fee of $100 in protest instead of answering 10 basic questions like how many people lived there. That's a far cry from Australia's $170 per day and/or going to jail for not answering intimate sexual questions. As far as being compelled... If there wasn't some sort of penalty for not answering important basic questions, a good majority of people would just file it in the circular trash bin.

On top of that, US's intrusive questions like salary are rather important statistics. They can actually be very useful. Questions like "How many sex partners have you had?" What are they gonna do, sell the statistics to Cosmo Australia? People shouldn't have to answer questions like that.

Well I don't know about the sexual questions, although census data IS used for all sorts important stuff like how to plan schools, roads, measure trends in education, etc etc.

Like I said, it would be nice if they gave more detail about what he's complaining about because while I have no doubt there are some ridiculous questions in there, the most of us managed to fill out our census forms and hand them back within about 10 minutes.

 

[Just Me]

To bring it somewhat back on topic

 

[Bocefish]

Like I said, it would be nice if they gave more detail about what he's complaining about because while I have no doubt there are some ridiculous questions in there, the most of us managed to fill out our census forms and hand them back within about 10 minutes.

On a typical Saturday afternoon, Chris was met with a knock on his door as an ABS field agent introduced him to a mandatory government survey that would include questions about his sex life with his wife. The questions asked absurdities like how many other sexual partners his wife had, or whether either of them would be home alone. Chris refused to answer the questions and the field agent immediately told Chris that if he didn't comply, he would be charged by the Australian statistician and brought before a judge, facing $170 daily fines and jail time.

Not alone, over 350,000 Australians targeted each year

Upon turning away from the ABS field agent, Chris went online to see if the questions were part of scam. Chris found out that he is not alone and that the questions, in fact, are coming from the government. He read about a similar case, where one guy was asked about his previous sexual relationships.

According to Yahoo Australia, in the past year, the ABS harasses and threatens over 350,000 homes. At least 1,500 Aussies had been persecuted for not answering within that same year and 94 of these people were eventually referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Some people had to use religious exemptions and others changed their address to avoid questioning.

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