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The government "asked" (read: pressured) some of the biggest ISPs to provide parental filtering controls to all customers, set at a broadband account level. For

The government "asked" (read: pressured) some of the biggest ISPs to provide parental filtering controls to all customers, set at a broadband account level. For new customers these filters are enabled by default, but any customer can turn them off through their broadband account control panel (see here: http://i.imgur.com/dWxORfJ.png http://i.imgur.com/dWxORfJ.png). There are quite a few smaller ISPs who have refused to implement these filters. There is no filtering at a country level and anyone can opt out with one click. The difference between now and 1 year ago is that instead of being opt-in the parental filters ISPs provide are now opt-out (for new customers).

pyrocat 13y ago
"one click" "new customers" these claims have been called into doubt in this thread already.
- citricsquid 13y ago
  I can only speak for myself but my experience has been exactly as I claimed. I have two broadband connections in my home, one from BT and one from Virgin Media. The BT connection has no filtering enabled (the screenshot in my post is from my BT account) and it only took one click to confirm I didn't want filtering, my Virgin Media connection is not filtered and I haven't had to touch any settings for that. Perhaps an individual ISP has improperly implemented their system?
  - babuskov 13y ago
    If there was no filtering on BT, why did you have to click to confirm anything? What would happen if you did not confirm?
    - citricsquid 13y ago
      I wanted to see how the system worked so that I would be able to comment on it from a position of experience and be able to provide screenshots for when it was being discussed.
  - pyrocat 13y ago
    > Perhaps an individual ISP has improperly implemented their system? This is most likely the case. My larger point being, let's not even defend or apologize for this system.
  - JacksonGariety 13y ago
    If you're posting to Hacker News, we can probably assume you're above the average level of computer usage. Maybe for you it seems like "one click," but for grandma and her new laptop, would it be?
mrtron 13y ago
I wonder if you could sue them for false advertising for claiming to be able to differentiate between sex education and pornography.

pyrocat 13y ago

"one click" "new customers" these claims have been called into doubt in this thread already.

citricsquid 13y ago
I can only speak for myself but my experience has been exactly as I claimed. I have two broadband connections in my home, one from BT and one from Virgin Media. The BT connection has no filtering enabled (the screenshot in my post is from my BT account) and it only took one click to confirm I didn't want filtering, my Virgin Media connection is not filtered and I haven't had to touch any settings for that. Perhaps an individual ISP has improperly implemented their system?
- babuskov 13y ago
  If there was no filtering on BT, why did you have to click to confirm anything? What would happen if you did not confirm?
  - citricsquid 13y ago
    I wanted to see how the system worked so that I would be able to comment on it from a position of experience and be able to provide screenshots for when it was being discussed.
- pyrocat 13y ago
  > Perhaps an individual ISP has improperly implemented their system? This is most likely the case. My larger point being, let's not even defend or apologize for this system.
- JacksonGariety 13y ago
  If you're posting to Hacker News, we can probably assume you're above the average level of computer usage. Maybe for you it seems like "one click," but for grandma and her new laptop, would it be?

mrtron 13y ago

I wonder if you could sue them for false advertising for claiming to be able to differentiate between sex education and pornography.