What do you think of the whole block porn campaign the daily mail is running almost every day?

Question

If you don't read the daily mail the last few months they've had a block porn campign led by one women. Someone called Claire Perry who is the advisor to david cameron.

She trying to get all the ISP'S in the uk to block porn be default

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/uk-isps-enforcing-opt-in-porn-filtering-from-the-end-of-the-year/

this is taken from the article

Perry told a forum last week that: “[In the UK] we will have filters where if you do nothing, the parental filters will come pre-ticked,” hinting pretty strongly that some sort of ISP-led blockade on porn is imminent. She also added: “We will have automatic put on, so if you turn the filter off at 9pm, it turns on again at 7am,” plus there will be a system of email alerts put in place so mum knows when dad (or the kids) have deactivated the filters.

her "plan" is even if u turn the filters off because we're all adults right they will be back on by the morning so you have to get them turned off again..which is ridiculous.

And this bit disturbs me

plus there will be a system of email alerts put in place so mum knows when dad (or the kids) have deactivated the filters.

So dad and the kids apparently can't be trusted.

The thing blocking porn won't solve anything.

Look at the pirate bay for example the same stupid paper ran a campaign to get the pirate bay blocked. They gave it a hell of a lot of media attention and its popularity in the uk went up by 70%.
Now hundreds of teenagers around the country know how to unblock the pirate bay via proxy's.

Now if they know how to unblock the pirate bay they can sure as hell unblock porn the same way.

The main problem is that blocking porn won't just block porn. It will block everything. Twitter is full of porn as is tumblr so they'll be gone. Amazon sells sex toys and dildo's. Pretty sure amazon goes as well.

It's up to the parents to decided what their kids do not the goverment. Sky, virgin ect already have filters in you just have to ring up to get put on. The goverment controlling the internet is just an excuse for parents to be lazy.



http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/01/claire-perry-interview-leaving-internet-on-at-night-is-as-reckless-as-leaving-the-front-door-unlocked/

above is an interview with clair perry

this is from the link

* Perry caused a storm earlier this week when she suggested in an interview with the Daily Mail that parents should be able to monitor their children’s text messages.

*I’ve had this conversation with my children, my 16-year-old said you must think you’re mad if you think I’m going to let you read my texts. And I said, well, there might be some conditions under which I’d quite like to see some of your emails.

She also belives theres nothing wrong with reading her 16 year old daughters text and emails. I'm sorry but this women is crackers.

When I was a 16 year in school I used to text girls all the time, its called being a normal teenager . I don't have kids but if I did I would let them do what kids are supposed to do and let them grow up normally.

She's just trying to force her views on everyone else. The funny thing is when you read all these articles all the comments are negative and everyone's against it.

I just wondered what peoples opinion on it was?

Answer 1

It's great. I also hope that age ratings on music end up on the government agenda soon.

Answer 2

I think they need to stop babysitting families and concentrate on the only real issues with porn on the internet,rape porn and anything involving brutal violence or children obviously needs wiping out but consenting adult porn should be left as it is and it is up to parents to make sure their children don't view it.



I watch legal porn,i am 36 and if i want to watch it i will,i am old enough for it not to damage me in any way and also perfectly capable of making sure my children don't see it.



I have young children and i have teenagers too,it's no good thinking you can tell teenagers that something is terrible and forbidden,it makes it more enticing and the best way is to make sure they know that porn is out there but does not reflect true sexual relationships or behaviour and that they do not have to live up to the body image of the women in them or expect it if they are boys.



Mobile phones didn't exist when i was a teenager and neither did the internet but i had letters and diaries that my mother read for no good reason and i felt completely violated by her intrusion of my privacy.



I would never read my teenager's texts or emails unless i thought they were in serious danger and i really felt it was the only way to get to the bottom of it.



I brought my children up to be sensible,i educated them about the world and now i have to trust that they paid attention but i do not need to know their every thought and read everything they send and receive,they are open with us as their parents about what goes on in their lives but they do have the right to privacy too.

Answer 3

I hardly think the "Daily Fail" is in any place to comment. As "Private Eye" likes to regularly point out, it is rather keen on publishing pictures of underage girls and commenting on how attractive they look. If it's not careful, one of these days it will get prosecuted for distributing child pornography.



Filtering is pointless. You can program a computer to filter words, but how can you program it to filter pictures? Even filtering words backfires sometimes when it blocks access to perfectly respectable sites. The only way of doing it is to have real human beings looking at what the site has on it and deciding whether to block it or not. Which Google is already doing with respect to child pornography.

Answer 4

provided that, as deepest Eye frequently factors out, it also likes to print images of sweet sixteen women and say how pleasing they look (it really is verging on getting them prosecuted for distribution of kid pornography), the "on a daily basis Fail" is only a LEETLE bit hypocritical. the information of the global become in basic terms as undesirable... it did so like to post memories of defrocked vicars even as being the Sunday version of The sunlight which publishes gentle porn daily on web page 3. The on a daily basis Fail would not annoy me because i do not examine it. i comprehend what it really is - the paper for the right wing ish "why oh why" and "it should not be allowed" tendency, and prefer all different tabloid, it really is conscious its readership and publishes what they opt for to work out.

Answer 5

Perry is a Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes.



Conservative philosophy seeks to legislate morality which sets a dangerous precedent. Once the state starts deciding what is morally correct you are on the path to theocracy or fascism.

Answer 6

By all means we need to do something about the symptom of the problem instead of handling the cause which is the puritanical nonsense religious organizations never cease to spew!