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> They know people will feel kinda embarrassed to call their ISP and say "I want porn" I called my Canadian cable company on some trivial matter. The end of th
by goatforce5 13y ago
> They know people will feel kinda embarrassed to call their ISP and say "I want porn"
I called my Canadian cable company on some trivial matter. The end of the call went something like: "We've got a great deal on the kids TV channel package. Do you want to sign up?"
"I live by myself. Not interested."
"Oh, in that case, I can give you a deal on our adult channels."
Moral of the story: the call centre staff couldn't care one way or the other - they're just doing their jobs. Call 'em up and get the stupid filter removed.
- gaius 13y agoSure. But people who do care will have access to the list. And the list will be leaked.
- goatforce5 13y agoThe same way there are leaks of who subscribes to the adult cable channels? Regardless, if there is to be a filter service I guess it's good that it covers a lot more than just porn. So what if the list is leaked? People probably just want unfiltered access to news sources. (Which sounds like a modern day version of the "I just buy it for the articles" Playboy defence.)
- gaius 13y agoNow Jacqui Smith was a pretty awful excuse for a politician anyway, but consider: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/brought-down-by-husbands-porn-and-sisters-spare-room-6710441.html http://www.standard.co.uk/news/brought-down-by-husbands-porn...
- goatforce5 13y agoI'm not familiar with the case, but the article seems to imply that they tried to claim the porn films on expenses (along with a lot of other dodgy expenses). That's a totally different kettle of fish.
- adrianb 13y agoThey are charging you for the extra channels. The call center people are motivated to make you pay more. It's a bit different with this Internet filter.
- makomk 13y agoYeah. In fact, historically some of the UK mobile providers used their Internet filtering to direct users to their own for-pay porn of which they got a cut.