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Generally speaking there seems to be a lack of engagment by experts in a varity of subjects. This is no different. The problem is the ease of access to pornogr

Generally speaking there seems to be a lack of engagment by experts in a varity of subjects. This is no different. The problem is the ease of access to pornography for anyone, mainly children. It is hard to deny this is a problem. A solution is an opt in web filter. I don't like web filters but in this case I see little alternative. The only other option is to try to prosecute websites that do not do some form of age checking for the UK. I don't think this is viable at all.

PeterisP 13y ago
An opt-in[1] filter isn't a solution, it's a snake oil pill that has no effects whatsoever on trivial access to pornography anyways. It will hamper a stressed kid trying to go to the local youth NGO's site with info on condoms (a true example blocked by one of the UK filters). It won't hamper a horny teenager trying to look for porn, he'll find it rapidly anyway and tell his peers how to do it. In short, these web filters are a worse solution than simply doing nothing. You're accepting a tradeoff of real harm for imaginary, nonexistant benefits. [1] By the way, isn't the implementation on-by-default, making it an opt-out filter instead of opt-in?