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Soleron on 22 July 2013
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NiKKoM said:

In addition, Mr Cameron will say possessing online pornography depicting rape will be illegal, bringing England and Wales in line with Scotland. In a speech, the prime minister will warn that access to online pornography is "corroding childhood".

Think of the children is not a good argument.

The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers.

Family-friendly filters will be automatically selected for all new customers - though they can choose to switch them off.

Only the account holder can switch it off. What if that's a university ISP, preventing students 18-21 from accessing it. Also, this looks like a huge UK Govt IT project. The likelihood of pervasive technical difficulties is 100%.

And millions of existing computer users will be contacted by their internet providers and told they must decide whether to activate "family friendly filters" to restrict adult material. Customers who do not click on either option - accepting or declining - will have filters activated by default, Tory MP Claire Perry, Mr Cameron's adviser on the sexualisation and commercialisation of childhood, told the BBC.

Other measures expected to be announced by the prime minister include:

  • New laws so videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops
Expect lots of THIS VIDEO IS UNAVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY simply because it hasn't been rated/no one bothered to rate it.
  • Search engines will be given until October to introduce further measures to block illegal content. They have a "moral duty" to block illegal content, Mr Cameron will say
Exactly what more do they expect than what they already do (removing illegal content when asked)
  • He will also call for warning pages to pop up with helpline numbers when people try to search for illegal content
  • Experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre will be given more powers to examine secretive file-sharing networks
They already have ALL of the data. The leaks established that. They still can't decrypt traffic, which is what real criminals do.
  • A secure database of banned child porn images gathered by police across the country will be used to trace illegal content and the paedophiles viewing it
This already happens exactly as described. How is this new?

Mr Cameron will say: "I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood. "And how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.

Think of the children. The law is not a subtle tool and shouldn't be used for social change.

On Sunday, Mr Cameron called on internet companies to do more to block access to material depicting abuse

"I'm not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence."

Stop conflating legal and illegal pornography. The latter shouldn't be used as a reason to limit access to the former.

This is totally impractical (is all of Tumblr porn? Are topless women in newspapers porn? Is Wikipedia porn?) and totally ineffectual (criminals don't use the unencrypted public internet).