Only three days left to protest UK porn filter

Shut up, you’re history, Lansley.

We’ll call it the the Children’s Safety Shield. If you want it disabled, contact your ISP. Then the police will audit your computers.

When you trie to block porn from the internet, there will be only one big website on the net:

It will only contain one sentence that is: BRING BACK THE PORN

make you’re voice heard

Make you are voice heard.

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Yeah I think we should try an Opt-Out system for Organ Donation first.

It doesn’t even make sense to filter the internet for everyone in the UK when we’re trying to protect Children which is only a small % of UK population and children under 5 basically can’t use it and teenagers will get round it anyway.

Not to mention look how well China, Syria, Egypt etc got on at censoring their internet you know just trying to “protect” the public by taking away their freedoms.

And Jeremy, you believe in homeopathy, you probably believe that censoring the internet will work but the rest of us who don’t believe in magic water, don’t agree with you.

First its porn. But since they only loosely define porn, if at all, what happens next?

Well, since the system would already be in place, its easy to start blocking the odd media super-injunction. Maybe a few sites which encourage civil unrest.

Before you know it, we have a fully censored internet, introduced by the back door.

People need to be much more angry about this.

I think Western governments are looking at places like China, and see how easy it is to control and censor without huge repercussions, and it all helps keep them in power, and prevents any threat to the rivers of dollars flowing in.

Be very angry about this, people.

You owe it to future generations of internet users.

For those of us new to this kind of protesting would you mind giving us some guidelines on the manner in which we respond on the government’s consultation page? I may not have read correctly but they don’t seem particularly interested in having lay people tell them they’re idiots (which is practically all I was going to do).

Do I simply write out in a word document why they’re wrong and attach it in the submission page?

So who oversees the standards by which these censors shut down normal adult search behavior? How much art will be censored as porn, for having tits shown? Tits are ubiquitous in Renaissance art - how many classic artworks will now be blocked as porn, so that kids can’t know about the Birth of Venus, or countless other classic works? How many Roman and Greek sculptures will now be blocked?

More important, why are we willing to give religious pearl-clutchers such control over the art and culture that our children experience? They are now censoring their own works, in addition to modern intellectual thoughts. How about we stop being politically correct, and just be straight up honest about not censoring art and intellectual thought?

Oh you silly British toothless wankers. Once you lined up and willingly turned in your firearms to Big Brother you went from citizens to subjects.

Free people own guns.

Slaves do not.

“porn filter” ? Its more like a disguised censorship tool to block websites all in the name of “protecting children”. Are these parents gullible that they want their government on what their children want to watch Internet?

How will this tool be really used? So for example, what about the fate of the image hosting websites like imageshack or imgur? They contain so many adult images as well as many personal user images. So they will block the whole website? What about websites like youtube or vimeo which also contain adult videos? They will block it too.

And haven’t these parents and the politicians supporting for this type of blocking ever heard of the the consequences of banning something? It creates more demand for it and inadvertently turn them in to the very thing they try to avoid. Ever heard of the prohibition in US?

I am not in support of children watching porn of course but this sort of thing is a parents responsibly, not the government.

I am mostly sure this will block will be most probably removed but if it is implemented, it will only create more problems in the long term.

RELIGION IS OBSOLETE!

Don’t like porn or anything that’s against your religion. don’t go into those places!!!!

Keep your shitty beliefs to yourself!

Wow… just wow. This whole idea is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in a long time. The people behind this are not only pushing this for purely religious reasons but are obviously technologically illiterate. Do you know how long it would take most people with a modicum of computer knowledge to circumvent this? About 2 minutes. Do you know who has the best and most intuitive computer knowledge? Kids and young people. Do the people supporting this even have the vaguest concept that the whole idea will be impossible to implement in the real world? Do they have even the vaguest concept of the internet or how it works?

It is unworkable, unpoliceable and a huge waste of time and money. I’m proud that the UK government doesn’t generally bow to religious nutjobs. Don’t start now.

What annoys me the most is that getting that word document set up to send via that online form is the most complicated thing I’ve ever seen. What’s wrong with just a message box like this that I can say “No government, fuck off, you ruin our lives more than enough as it is, I don’t want your stupid ass censorship in my internet.”

Censorship is disgusting enough as it is, we can’t have swear words on television before 9pm and certain ‘more rude’ swear words before 10pm because a few people complain about their kids seeing it and repeating the words, even though most of the time they learn those words from school from other kids who hear it off their parents. The internet is the last place of freedom people have to escape to when the real world restricts them in every possible fashion, and now there are people wanting to censor and control that too? Fuck off.

I wonder if I can get them to stop by threatening to kill myself if they go forward with it… Given the clear religious aspects of this, I’m sure they wouldn’t want their actions causing a suicide, otherwise they’d be just as much to blame for the suicide in the eyes of their god as I am.

*Looks at America’s two party political race* Yeah, very free over there buddy. Not that it’s much better here with our three major ones…

We’re still all locked in this bullshit democracy that only appeases the ‘majority’ and oppresses the minority. Funny that the way it works here, the minorities can far outnumber the majority…