Potential Porn Ban in the UK

[inanimate blob]

Originally a crackdown on rape and child porn, now extending to all porn...not a ban, per sé, rather "restrictions."

For those of you living in the UK, how do you feel about this potential ban on something that has defined the Internet? For those of you elsewhere, how much ass does it suck for these guys?

 

[shade]

is this a late april fools?

 

[peng]

I live in the UK.

This is a massive overreaction sparked by a few recent child abductions that were seemingly fueled by the ease of access to porn. I don't know who gave the government the idea that no porn = no paedophiles but I'm fairly sure thats not how it works.

 

[faint]

This has nothing to do with porn, child protection, or whatever case they plead but instead has everything to do with restriction and censorship. Child protection is the easiest excuse you can use to get support for something like this, which if this goes through will make it easier for more restrictions to come into play later on. This is not new. Many countries have been involved in similar censorship laws. It's unfortunate that the UK is next on the list.

 

[Layell]

Just like in Canada some politician will declare "You are either with us or the child pornographers" and everyone will mock them endlessly and ideally it won't get passed.

 

[CaptKirby]

even worse than that time smogon let power hungry moderators high on god's semen ban pornography from the site

 

[Kinneas]

I don't see why people have to "opt in" to not being censored, surely people should have to opt in to having their internet censored. Why force something upon every household just to protect the ones with bad, lazy parents?

Would this kind of thing even be allowed in America? Isn't it in some way covered by the First Amendment?

I dunno, all I can think of is this song:

 

[faint]

I don't see why people have to "opt in" to not being censored, surely people should have to opt in to having their internet censored. Why force something upon every household just to protect the ones with bad, lazy parents?

Would this kind of thing even be allowed in America? Isn't it in some way covered by the First Amendment?

I dunno, all I can think of is this song:

Because "opting in" actually means you're a part of the "problem".

 

[cookie]

this law is just a stepping stone to a filter that you can't opt out of. And with it, things that aren't necessarily (child) porn will get banned as well.

The immediate issue with this law is that it won't just block porn: anything that is deemed pornographic by the powers that be, will be unviewable to those who are too embarrassed to opt in, or those who don't think it blocks anything important. What happens if a gay rights website gets put on the blocklist? Telecom companies here already have such a thing in place, where "adult content" is blocked by default.

This might sound alarmist but it's really quite reasonable: between this, the Digital Economy Act (lest we forget that bullshit law too) and the GCHQ monitoring every single bit of data that passes through British internet cables, we're moving closer to a police state.

And this is happening everywhere (check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country ). Nearly every country in the world has some sort of internet filter implemented, albeit strictly for child porn in most - the UK is merely ahead of the curve for a European country. This is how it starts, though. And this is why everyone needs to learn about cryptography and TOR.

 

[Taylor]

i should confess i did contribute to some percentage of this, sorry people p.q

 

[dice]

thankfully frizy doesn't live in the uk and won't suffer from withdrawal systems

 

[UltiMario]

Hey what if

guys just consider this for a second

if instead of having retarded laws passed

the internet providing companies would just step up and use logins for their customers and have some settings in there

and then they could just hit a check box for x-rated websites so they could disable them if they have kids

and not make a huge deal with laws and actually make any potential legal issue out of this

this would take like 2 weeks for companies to do instead of years of ARGUING OVER PORN and lets even bad parents be less bad

does the uk government really have nothing better to do jesus christ

 

[inanimate blob]

I wonder if this will come true in the UK...some people on 4chan (don't hate for just a second) mentioned the awkward call of enabling porn for your home.

 

[Lady Bug]

shite m8

 

[BKC]

I was reminded of this.

 

[CaptKirby]

Kyber, after your cursory, incoherent, and incorrect attempt to act like you have any reason to comment on who I am (as if someone who can barely talk should ever comment on somebody being made fun of for talking a lot), you try to grade both liking pokemon and liking porn under the default assumption that both are embarrassing and slightly to very indefensible. Like what you want to like, only complete dweebs worry about what anybody thinks. Although you are not wrong that liking any Misty hentai is probably inherently pathetic.

Someone wanting to be able to post whatever he or she wants obviously does not necessarily have anything to do with wanting to help anybody find material to jizz to or to find it for oneself either, and it takes the brain power of basically a 5 year old to figure that out. You share what you enjoy with good buddies, and I will damn well share burger porn with the fine people who deserve to know about burger porn.

This is the internet, nobody with a brain NEEDS help finding porn, so it is patently obvious on the face of the issue that finding new things to jack off to is not the point for anybody who already possesses the incredibly minor competency to search for porn without getting viruses.

 

[elcheeso]

Yeah Australia was in store for some bullshit filtering as well, supposedly to PROTECT THE CHILDRENS (so I suppose not really the same because it was really just meant to focus on child porn, which is already illegal to host in this country). Of course then some of the list of sites being put onto the filter came out and there were a non-negligible number of sites that had nothing to do with child porn, including... as I recall... a dentist's website. Obviously a mistake in the latter case, but it shows how this sort of thing can go horribly wrong, even without the more malicious cases of "I don't like what they're saying so on the filter they go!"

Glad it never came to fruition, hope you Brits can avoid a more ridiculous version of it.

 

[Fiction.]

when i grow up i wanna be just like kyber

 

[biggie]

I immediately thought of this movie when hearing about the porn ban:

 

[Spacewizard]

Everybody mad cus they can't get they dick wet.

 

[Soul Fly]

V for Vendetta Vagina

 

[AJers]

I wonder if this applies for erotica?

Anyways, they're taking a ridiculous stance, even at the face of it. Laws are only effective if they are enforceable; this one isn't.

It almost reminds me of the War on Drugs!

 

[Brap]

It's all the conservatives fault. I hate them all.

Altogether now; 'David Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker. David Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker'.

 

[Shiruba]

It's all the conservatives fault. I hate them all.

Altogether now; 'David Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker. David Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker'.

Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker, is a wanker, UK.
Cameron is a wanker, is a wanker, is a wanker, UK.
You've been hit by-
You've been struck by-
A Conservative!
/ow!

[they came into your apartment
left the cum stains
on the carpet
they'll come into your bedroom
and arrest you
it is your doom!]

 

[verbatim]

I wonder if his aplies to eroica?

I would assume so. I recall an erotic artist I follow complaining how the ad system for his website would only associate his work (no nudity) with hardcore pornography.