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There is a "UK Porn Filter". You can, however, opt out, and existing customers may currently not yet be affected. There is a fear that people will blindly choos

There is a "UK Porn Filter". You can, however, opt out, and existing customers may currently not yet be affected. There is a fear that people will blindly choose the default "opt in" because of taboo and other social pressures. Also, in some cases it's very difficult to opt out (for example, I cannot opt out of my mobile content filter because I don't own a credit card).

citricsquid 13y ago
The filter on your mobile phone has existed for years (when I was a teenager in 2006 my Orange mobile phone had such a filter), it's a practice over a decade old. It has nothing to do with the supposed "UK Porn Filter" (which doesn't exist).
- danudey 13y ago
  The 'UK Porn Filter' refers to the default content filtering by ISPs pushed by David Cameron and implemented by UK ISPs. Whether there's one huge filter affecting everyone in the UK (there isn't) or every ISP in the UK implements a filter of some kind based on arbitrary but consistent criteria, the term isn't wholly unreasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Default_blocking_of_content_by_Internet_Service_Providers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
SixSigma 13y ago
Which mobile phone provider ? I just went into the three shop and said "take the porn block off please"
- doctorfoo 13y ago
  My nearest provider (Vodafone) store is over an hours drive away. I've never particularly considered going there; but even if that is a possibility I'd still class it as "difficult to opt out". I personally would also feel quite embarrassed going into a shop and having to effectively tell staff I want to look at porn. I don't think I would do it.
  - SixSigma 13y ago
    If you don't think You're freedom is worth two hour's effort then I rather despair. And you don't have to say "porn please" just "turn off the filter please", I just don't succumb to Cameron and his Daily Mail ilk suggesting it is something to be embarrassed about.
    - doctorfoo 13y ago
      My only point was that these filters can be difficult to turn off. Please feel free to despair at the large number of average Joes who also won't put in the effort. That's quite the problem. (fwiw, I rarely use my phone for web browsing anyway, and have a nice uncensored VPN connection for my home system)
      - DanBC 13y ago
        The hoops some people have to jump through to turn off the filters on mobile Internet is disturbing. They shouldn't demand a passport and nothing else will do, or other odd systems of ID. I'm ambivalent about the filters. I think they're stupid and pointless but so long as they're easy to turn off they're okay. They stop idiots calling for worse systems.

citricsquid 13y ago

The filter on your mobile phone has existed for years (when I was a teenager in 2006 my Orange mobile phone had such a filter), it's a practice over a decade old. It has nothing to do with the supposed "UK Porn Filter" (which doesn't exist).

danudey 13y ago
The 'UK Porn Filter' refers to the default content filtering by ISPs pushed by David Cameron and implemented by UK ISPs. Whether there's one huge filter affecting everyone in the UK (there isn't) or every ISP in the UK implements a filter of some kind based on arbitrary but consistent criteria, the term isn't wholly unreasonable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Default_blocking_of_content_by_Internet_Service_Providers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

SixSigma 13y ago

Which mobile phone provider ? I just went into the three shop and said "take the porn block off please"

doctorfoo 13y ago
My nearest provider (Vodafone) store is over an hours drive away. I've never particularly considered going there; but even if that is a possibility I'd still class it as "difficult to opt out". I personally would also feel quite embarrassed going into a shop and having to effectively tell staff I want to look at porn. I don't think I would do it.
- SixSigma 13y ago
  If you don't think You're freedom is worth two hour's effort then I rather despair. And you don't have to say "porn please" just "turn off the filter please", I just don't succumb to Cameron and his Daily Mail ilk suggesting it is something to be embarrassed about.
  - doctorfoo 13y ago
    My only point was that these filters can be difficult to turn off. Please feel free to despair at the large number of average Joes who also won't put in the effort. That's quite the problem. (fwiw, I rarely use my phone for web browsing anyway, and have a nice uncensored VPN connection for my home system)
    - DanBC 13y ago
      The hoops some people have to jump through to turn off the filters on mobile Internet is disturbing. They shouldn't demand a passport and nothing else will do, or other odd systems of ID. I'm ambivalent about the filters. I think they're stupid and pointless but so long as they're easy to turn off they're okay. They stop idiots calling for worse systems.