3 ms·

You forgot the most important question 0) How will you do it? The internet is HUGE. Detecting porn is a non-trivial task, but even if you solve it, you will s

by rorrr2 13y ago

You forgot the most important question 0) How will you do it? The internet is HUGE. Detecting porn is a non-trivial task, but even if you solve it, you will still need insane infrastructure to crawl the internet and apply your magical algorithm to every image on every website.

jwdunne 13y ago
Exactly and with all the massive cuts they're making because we spend far too much, is this really what they should be spending money on? The NHS is in shambles (visibly worse than under Labour), people having to pay for the extra room whilst their children are away fighting in Afghanistan and many pensioners much less than well off and the government wants to fund a porn blocking filter that's undoubtedly going to cost tonnes? I do not like my government.
Nursie 13y ago
Oh, that bit's simple, in two parts - 1. You draw up a blocklist of offending domain names and IP addresses for child porn websites and get ISPs to block them 2. Force google not to return results for people searching for child porn. Because politicians and their advisers really do seem to think it's that easy and that if it's not listed on google it's not on the internet. It's stunningly ignorant.
- seabee 13y ago
  They've already done that bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_%28content_blocking_system%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_%28content_blocking_s... This move is to please middle England since they read all the headlines about '1/3 of kids addicted to porn' and stories about teenage rapists heavily implying porn made them that way.
  - Nursie 13y ago
    Oh I know about cleanfeed, ever since the wikipedia debacle. The issue is that they think it actually solves anything! I wish it was only one side of the house that was into this rubbish, but various Labour front-benchers have come out with very similar nonsense. Also the last labour government seemed to be full of "All Porn is Rape" style feminists * . ( * please note, I consider myself a feminist in as much as believe in absolute equality and free self determination for all humans, I just disagree with some aspects of some feminist philosophy. As do a lot of prominent feminists AFAICT)

by rorrr2 13y ago

jwdunne 13y ago

Exactly and with all the massive cuts they're making because we spend far too much, is this really what they should be spending money on? The NHS is in shambles (visibly worse than under Labour), people having to pay for the extra room whilst their children are away fighting in Afghanistan and many pensioners much less than well off and the government wants to fund a porn blocking filter that's undoubtedly going to cost tonnes? I do not like my government.

Nursie 13y ago

Oh, that bit's simple, in two parts - 1. You draw up a blocklist of offending domain names and IP addresses for child porn websites and get ISPs to block them 2. Force google not to return results for people searching for child porn. Because politicians and their advisers really do seem to think it's that easy and that if it's not listed on google it's not on the internet. It's stunningly ignorant.

seabee 13y ago
They've already done that bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_%28content_blocking_system%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_%28content_blocking_s... This move is to please middle England since they read all the headlines about '1/3 of kids addicted to porn' and stories about teenage rapists heavily implying porn made them that way.
- Nursie 13y ago
  Oh I know about cleanfeed, ever since the wikipedia debacle. The issue is that they think it actually solves anything! I wish it was only one side of the house that was into this rubbish, but various Labour front-benchers have come out with very similar nonsense. Also the last labour government seemed to be full of "All Porn is Rape" style feminists * . ( * please note, I consider myself a feminist in as much as believe in absolute equality and free self determination for all humans, I just disagree with some aspects of some feminist philosophy. As do a lot of prominent feminists AFAICT)