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In the UK, this is already the default: adult content is blocked by ISPs, unless you check a box. The percentage of people who have the box ticked roughly corre
by fredley 10y ago
In the UK, this is already the default: adult content is blocked by ISPs, unless you check a box. The percentage of people who have the box ticked roughly correlates with the percentage of households with children. This bill goes further in requiring age-verification to be run by every site serving adult content, or be blocked in the UK altogether. The reasoning is that children can still browse pornography if they are not connected to their home network, and this will stop that happening.
- johndoe4589 10y agoOh I see good point. I was thinking most public wifi networks would also leave the filter on. But then again, how does the age verification protect children? I guess they are looking at the initial "impression" (in web semantics, the initial page load and what is shown without age verification).
- fredley 10y agoIt protects children in households where the setting is not enabled? I have no idea. Maybe there's another motive behind this bill.
- pjc50 10y agoYou must understand that UK public policy does not proceed from noticing a problem to solutions to that problem. It proceeds from newspaper headlines to policy announcements generating counter-headlines. The whole thing is driven by "BAN THIS FILTH" arguments in the Mail, Sun and Express. (At least two of which daily publish exploitative photos of women; the Mail has an entire sidebar of not-really-consensual bikini shots of celebrities)
- dingaling 10y agoOnly the Big Three ISPs in the UK ( BT Retail, TalkTalk, Virgin ) and their subsidiaries have any form of discretionaty content blocking. The smaller, more technical ones don't. They don't even have a content control panel.
- tonylemesmer 10y agoMy ISP doesn't appear to block or filter anything (not one of those listed by parent).