MPs again call for automatic block on "all online porn"

Daily Moan wrote:MPs call for automatic block on all online porn to stop the surge in children watching adult material

• Six out of ten children download adult material

Internet users should automatically be blocked from accessing pornography at home to stop the surge in children seeing adult material, MPs will demand today.

Anyone wanting to view hardcore images online should have to ‘opt out’ of a special filter, according to the panel of MPs and peers looking into child protection.

Their report said that six out of ten children download adult material because their parents have not installed filters. The use of protective filters in homes has fallen from 49 per cent to 39 per cent in the last three years.

They concluded that parents were often outsmarted by their web-savvy children and felt unconfident in updating and downloading content filters. Many parents were ‘oblivious’ to the type of material available on the internet and were often shocked when they realised the content that children were accessing.

Claire Perry, the Tory MP who chaired the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry on Online Child Protection, said: ‘This is hugely worrying.

‘While parents should be responsible for their children’s online safety, in practice, people find it difficult to put content filters on the plethora of internet-enabled devices in their homes.’



MP Claire Perry, moments before taking it in the arse. That's probably a libellous comment that'll get me jailed for the next 4 years...

Mrs Perry added: ‘It’s time that Britain’s internet service providers, who make more than £3billion a year from selling internet access services, took on more of the responsibility to keep children safe.’

The inquiry called for internet service providers to offer ‘one-click filtering’ for all devices within a year. This would block out adult content for all domestic broadband users and stop them accessing pornography on mobiles and iPads as well as PCs and laptops.

The inquiry said that the Government should launch an official inquiry into internet filtering and ministers should seek ‘backstop legal powers to intervene should the ISPs fail to implement an appropriate solution’.

However, some of the major internet companies refused to appear before the inquiry, saying they would only discuss the proposals in private and warned that the filters would be too expensive to implement or could slow down internet speeds.



Claire Perry at an orgy meet up. 8 years...

Witnesses before the inquiry pointed to dramatic changes in the availability of hard-core images, making it easier for children to access extreme porn.

‘As a result, more hard-core imagery is now available in the “free shop front” of commercial porn sites,’ the report said.

It also found that only three per cent of porn sites asked for proof of age and two-thirds did not contain any warning that they were for adults only.

Shockingly, the report found that children were being referred to counsellors for porn addiction.

Witnesses described the situation as a ‘social experiment with unknown long-term consequences’.

But critics warned the Government should not be in the business of censorship. Nick Pickles, of campaign group Big Brother Watch, added: ‘Technology is not a substitute for parenting or a quick fix for social problems.’

Ministers are expected to reveal whether they will agree to tougher regulation of the internet in a green paper due out soon.

StayDead wrote:Is there even any scientific reasoning why kids below the age of 18 shouldn't be allowed to watch porn? Sure I understand up to the age of 10/11, but after that puberty hits. Porn maybe fake as hell, but the act they're trying to portray is completely natural and doing this really wouldn't stop people getting access to it.

Errkal wrote:

StayDead wrote:Is there even any scientific reasoning why kids below the age of 18 shouldn't be allowed to watch porn? Sure I understand up to the age of 10/11, but after that puberty hits. Porn maybe fake as hell, but the act they're trying to portray is completely natural and doing this really wouldn't stop people getting access to it.

If you had said pre-16 I would agree as at 16 you can legally have sex, so why cant you watch it?, but 10/11 really....

Daily Moan wrote:Six out of ten children download adult material...

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Next step - cutting down all hedgerows to prevent kids finding old porn magazines.

StayDead wrote:

Errkal wrote:

StayDead wrote:Is there even any scientific reasoning why kids below the age of 18 shouldn't be allowed to watch porn? Sure I understand up to the age of 10/11, but after that puberty hits. Porn maybe fake as hell, but the act they're trying to portray is completely natural and doing this really wouldn't stop people getting access to it.

If you had said pre-16 I would agree as at 16 you can legally have sex, so why cant you watch it?, but 10/11 really....

I said after 10/11. So 12+, I mean come on. Most people here would probably admit to seeing porn for the first time around that age, be it on the internet or in old dodgy magazines found in their houses/in the local bushes. When you hit puberty which for most people is around that time in life, you start getting more and more interested in that sort of thing and boys will get wank material some way or another.

Errkal wrote:

StayDead wrote:

Errkal wrote:

StayDead wrote:Is there even any scientific reasoning why kids below the age of 18 shouldn't be allowed to watch porn? Sure I understand up to the age of 10/11, but after that puberty hits. Porn maybe fake as hell, but the act they're trying to portray is completely natural and doing this really wouldn't stop people getting access to it.

If you had said pre-16 I would agree as at 16 you can legally have sex, so why cant you watch it?, but 10/11 really....

I said after 10/11. So 12+, I mean come on. Most people here would probably admit to seeing porn for the first time around that age, be it on the internet or in old dodgy magazines found in their houses/in the local bushes. When you hit puberty which for most people is around that time in life, you start getting more and more interested in that sort of thing and boys will get wank material some way or another.

The point is that as you getting interested in that sort of thing Porn can be damaging, you get the wrong idea of what is meant to be etc. So I see what they are trying to do and the principle is good, but they are going about it wrong. They shouldn't just blanket enforce the rule, they should improve public knowledge of controls and ensure ISP's ask about putting controls on.