British Blocked

From the BBC:

"Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces"

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced. In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland. Mr Cameron warned in a speech that access to online pornography was "corroding childhood". The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers. In his speech, Mr Cameron said family-friendly filters would be automatically selected for all new customers by the end of the year - although they could choose to switch them off.  And millions of existing computer users would be contacted by their internet providers and told they must decide whether to use or not use "family-friendly filters" to restrict adult material. The filters would apply to all devices linked to the affected home Wi-Fi network and across the public Wi-Fi network "wherever children are likely to be present". 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. The UK's biggest internet service providers have agreed to the filters scheme meaning it should cover 95% of homes.

 

Other measures announced by the prime minister included:

• New laws so videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions as those sold in shops
• Search engines having until October to introduce further measures to block illegal content
• Experts from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre being given more powers to examine secretive file-sharing networks
• A secure database of banned child pornography images gathered by police across the country will be used to trace illegal content and the paedophiles viewing it

^ While I do not personally watch porn I do not think it is up to the government  to restrict porn access if porn is legal in that country. If porn is illegal than it makes sense to block it from everyone, but to have it legal and then block it from everyone automatically and then have individuals have to "opt-in" to see it is just dumb. It is the same with smoking. As long as it is legal to buy and smoke cigarettes then no place should be allowed to openly discriminate against smokers. There are very cheap ways for places to have inside areas that smokers can go to and at the same time have non-smokers not have to smell it. The bottom line here is: if it's legal than leave it alone. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076