Government plans to block pornography "at source" are unlikely to prove effective, say ISPs.
The proposal to cut off access to pornographic material was floated by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey in an interview with the Sunday Times.
The government is talking to ISPs to set up a meeting at which the proposal will be discussed.
But, say experts, technical challenges mean any large scale filtering system is doomed to failure.
Legal issues
A spokesman for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, confirmed Mr Vaizey's plan to talk to ISPs about setting up an age verification scheme to govern access to pornographic sites.
"This is a very serious matter," said Mr Vaizey. "I think it's very important that it's the ISPs that come up with solutions to protect children."
"I'm hoping they will get their acts together so we don't have to legislate, but we are keeping an eye on the situation and we will have a new communications bill in the next couple of years."
The Wikileaks situation is only moving us closer to having a controlled internet.
This freedom won't last forever. We're so lucky to live in the age of uncensored internet.
This is true, however given the current status of freedom so many people have discovered ways of bypassing security systems. If everyone downloads a .pdf of basic code or whatever, then who KNOWS
Reason why they could so easily implement this if they wanted is only absolute weirdos wouldn't be too embarrassed to protest about not being able to watch internet porn
Lol at Cameron if he thinks this will change anything.
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A lot of these perverts are highly intelligent. You won't be catching them just driving them even further underground and more likely to offer workarounds out of spite.
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lol @ thinking this has anything to do with porn
this is directly because of wikileaks
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TF S4DK
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TF S4DK
Or Tom Cleverely.
You muppet.
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Bardissimo
and so it begins...
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Guest Waka Flocka Dave
imagine we had to underground like nonces
f*cked
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Mic Man
____ >>>>>>> wanking from memory
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HangTheDJ
The Wikileaks situation is only moving us closer to having a controlled internet.
This freedom won't last forever. We're so lucky to live in the age of uncensored internet.
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Corrigan
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If this ever happened it would only be a matter of time before sleezy Net Pawn Cafes start to open.
And just like most things there's bound to be bootleg versions in which people will pay for before being ripped off with the likes of...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12041063
rest is on there
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This is true, however given the current status of freedom so many people have discovered ways of bypassing security systems. If everyone downloads a .pdf of basic code or whatever, then who KNOWS
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Yuri
Reason why they could so easily implement this if they wanted is only absolute weirdos wouldn't be too embarrassed to protest about not being able to watch internet porn
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Corrigan
ME N DURRTS FRONTLINE R U DUMB
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Guest Waka Flocka Dave
that needed a pause at least
but im there
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Corrigan
I DNT NEED PAUSES OR CLAUSES BRAH
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Online pornography to be blocked automatically, PM announces
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Every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron is to announce.
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In addition, the prime minister will say possessing online pornography depicting rape will be illegal.
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In a speech, Mr Cameron will warn that access to online pornography is "corroding childhood".
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Search engines will be given until October to introduce further measures to block illegal content.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076
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Alejandro Sosa
This is very good news
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I hope they implement it properly
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Lol at Cameron if he thinks this will change anything.
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A lot of these perverts are highly intelligent. You won't be catching them just driving them even further underground and more likely to offer workarounds out of spite.
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Afroman
Needs to eliminate the paedos in the daemon heirachy before tackiling porn Nationally. They are the grassroots of the problem.
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Supermalt
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Beavis
Cant touch the porn torrents anyway so he has failed before he even begins.
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