Politicians will never understand the Internet or the technology that drives it. I'm not sure if they are just stupid although I doubt it, I think they are just deceitful. I'm sure Cameron and his ilk have been fully advised about how utterly ineffectual their planned 'ISP porn filters' will be. My guess is that they couldn't care in the least if they protect children from anything, they just want the childrens parents (the voters) to think the Government have UK families best interests at heart. The parents (voters) will happily carry on in the naive belief that that nice Mr. cameron has done something positive to help them protect their offspring from the evils and wickedness that lurks around every corner of the Internet. Of course if the same parents got of their fat arses and actually spent time with their children online instead of using the Internet as some warped surrogate parent then children would probably be far better off than with Camerons 'unicorn and pixie dust powered' imaginary child protection system. If the new system was being touted as no more than something to help stop young children stumble across inappropriate content that would be one thing. But cameron is touting this as complete control for the parent to decide when and even if their teenage children can discover the joys/perils of pornography. And that's complete rubbish. All it seems to do is miss plenty of real porn and block womens abuse charity websites, sex education sites and various addiction counselling services.
There are all kinds of ways to bypass the new nonsense anti porn filters but for kids who use Chrome it's now as trivial as installing this Chrome plugin (http://goawaycameron.co.uk/). Click once and what probably cost the UK tax payer millions in consultations, meetings, presentations, reports and untold hours of committee and parliament time can be swept aside with a single mouse click. I'm sure any self respecting teenager will be all over this in a heart beat. So now an introduction to porn is still not in the control of the parent but in how quickly the average teenager can learn a bit of computer skills.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/12/camerons-internet-filter-goes-far-beyond-porn-and-was-always-plan
Couldn't agree more old boy. A colossal waste of our tax money.
Quote from: Tutonic;379390Couldn't agree more old boy. A colossal waste of our tax money.
Agreed, it's every bit as stupid and ineffectual as standing up and promising to freeze energy prices for 2 years. It's the result of a knee-jerk 'this will look good in the press' policy and lacks any planning or fore-thought.
All politicians are to be regarded as untrustworthy, DYOR and then work things out for yourself.