UK: David Cameron announces online pornography block, opt-in rule pledged
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The religious had secular reasons for prohibition too.
Air Zombie Meat
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Oh for fucks sake. This fucking government, i swear.
Carnby
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When my place of employment offered free access to Playboy TV I had no problem signing up. lol. I didn't watch it but I wanted it because it was FREE!
Britain is technically a theocracy
ConfusingJazz
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Correct. The legal authority of the Crown is still invested by God.
Goes for Canada, Australia, etc as well.
ConfusingJazz
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So you're saying Brazzers and Naughty America should invade Britain to forcibly open their markets to porn?
What will be the Pornish Empire's Hong Kong? The Isle of Wight?
Derp.
Great Cumbrae.
GillianSeed79
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Don't worry guys! I went through puberty before the Internet even existed.
All you need are a few of these:
And an old cable box so you can watch scrambled soft-core porn on Cinemax:
Trust me, if you stare at the scrambled signal long enough eventually you'll be able to see something that resembles a naked woman.
Have fun in the dark ages!
All you need are a few of these:
And an old cable box so you can watch scrambled soft-core porn on Cinemax:
Trust me, if you stare at the scrambled signal long enough eventually you'll be able to see something that resembles a naked woman.
Have fun in the dark ages!
Don't worry guys! I went through puberty before the Internet even existed.
All you need are a few of these:
And an old cable box so you can watch scrambled soft-core porn on Cinemax:
Trust me, if you stare at the scrambled signal long enough eventually you'll be able to see something that resembles a naked woman.
Have fun in the dark ages!
Oh man, the memories. Always remember to change the channels twice before you're done in case someone hits that last button on the remote.
But JCPenny? The good shit is Victoria's Secret.
travisbickle
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Currently, the Conservative party are on power. You don't need a God to be a self-righteous arsehole with a moral superiority complex, you can just vote Tory.
Kinky John
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Next it'll be "Hate speech" websites.
ElectricBlue187
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Surprised they aren't blocked already if hate speech is illegal.
Pretty much this. You don't need a religion to have a sense of morality. Heck, I'm sure they can pull a lot of defenses about how porn objectifies women and spreads sexuality which has hurt society in many ways in their view.
Hate speech, even on your own private networking pages, is valid of fining in Britain.
Deaf Spacker
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Blocking porn by default won't solve anything, this seems to be more about appeasing the tabloids.
thesuperfunk
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BBC Breakfast news is reporting that it will be an 'opt-in' situation for current internet customers.
Honey Bunny
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Haha holy shit I dodged that one
The crown has no legal authority. The law is more than a set of words in books. That's the sheet music, but law itself is a performance art. In those countries, it's been a performance so long running that entire sections may barely resemble the original composition.
NekoFever
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My phone network used to make you opt-in to receive adult sites over 3G. You needed a credit card to show you were over 18, and then they'd charge and immediately refund £1 to verify it, without you having to make an awkward phone call to customer services. That's probably how this will work.
bigboss370
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cool, i want to see what the ramifications are.
Spotted this..
Caring contest!
Who cares more?
The religious and feminists who wish to get rid of pornography or the blind who wish to not be and those who want to help them
If its as simple as turning off googles auto safe search moderate setting (which everyone does as soon as they realize its on), I actually can't hate this that much if it got passed into law. I'm trying to hate though.
Alx
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I don't think it's wrong actually, as long as you just have to opt-in to have full access to... your usual websites.
Isn't it basically how search engines are set up by default ? They tell you that some results are filtered because of adult content, and that you can disable them by changing your setup.
Isn't it basically how search engines are set up by default ? They tell you that some results are filtered because of adult content, and that you can disable them by changing your setup.
Forsythia
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If it works like this, it really isn't that much of a problem. But imagine having to actually call someone to remove the block. :/
It still is quite silly.
Everyone should read this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23312579
The gov cannot force isps to do this without a new law so they're just trying to change the wording.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23312579
The gov cannot force isps to do this without a new law so they're just trying to change the wording.
Laughing Banana
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What's with the whole surveillance thing in England? First they are the country with the most amount of CCTVs in the world and now this.
bigboss370
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for freedom and security of the public o_o
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