This is a typical example of a policy that is both pointless and ineffective. The government is, for one, not clear on what the goal of the policy is. If it's

This is a typical example of a policy that is both pointless and ineffective. The government is, for one, not clear on what the goal of the policy is. If it's to thwart child pornography, that won't work because if you wanted to view it, you'd just toddle off to your ISP and opt out of the filters. If it's to stop children looking at pornography in general, that will fail children/young people are smarter than people imagine at circumventing these things. This sort of thing gets proposed because it makes people think the government is doing something to social problems, even if it is technically problematic and won't really achieve the stated aims. I'm actually all for discouraging the use of pornography because it is something of a scourge on society, but this is not the way to do it. Education is.