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Just explain to your wife that you are opposed to the block on principle and won't have the government dictate what you can and can't do on the web.* That's a pretty fair reason anyway. That's certainly what's pissed me off the most about this.

 

*Obviously the ban on child pornography is fine, but clearly a line has been crossed when they're blocking legal stuff by default.

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I already have O2 censoring my phone.. now BT will be next! I'll have to go back to masturbating in women's changing rooms again. 

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I already have O2 censoring my phone.. now BT will be next! I'll have to go back to masturbating in women's changing rooms again. 

 

 

Orange do the same. Fortunately the young girl in their customer services department was more embarrassed than I was when I asked her to turn my porn back on.

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I already have O2 censoring my phone.. now BT will be next! I'll have to go back to masturbating in women's changing rooms again. 

 

 

Orange do the same.

 

 

:o  Orange masturbate in women's changing rooms??? All of them? 

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I already have O2 censoring my phone.. now BT will be next! I'll have to go back to masturbating in women's changing rooms again. 

 

 

Orange do the same.

 

 

:o  Orange masturbate in women's changing rooms??? All of them? 

 

Jaffa orange though so it's seedless

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I already have O2 censoring my phone.. now BT will be next! I'll have to go back to masturbating in women's changing rooms again. 

 

 

Orange do the same.

 

 

:o  Orange masturbate in women's changing rooms??? All of them? 

 

 

Well not the same women's changing room.

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Wouldn't it be easier to for the government to sponsor and offer a software solution for anyone who wanted this protection on their computer?!

They say they're trying to stop certain elements having access to it. I doubt anybody that wants to do anything untoward will care for that kind of solution :S

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One of the most cynically pandering, sinister moves I can recall from a government.

A pointless exercise in curtailing rights, a sycophantic sucking up to misguided Victorian sensibility at best, at worst a thin of a wedge that sees all dissent chopped away, shut off and swept under a carpet.

It conflates apparently watching run of the mill porn (something I would wager a significant proportion of the population has done at some point, and probably rather enjoyed) with depraved snuff porn and great white scaremonger child porn, something at once idiotic and appalling - demeaning a perfectly legal and safe pursuit with heinous criminality, and vice versa.

The news has been a parade of toffee-nosed women all effectively repeating the mantra of 'Oh won't someone save the children, Mr Cameron...?', when they seem to have forgotten that looking after children is the parents agenda. A child getting his hardcore fix early is clearly suffering from morons for parents - and yet everyone else has to sign up to an inevitable deviants list (destined to leak, probably destined to have a mark up on it too) because poor little parents can't monitor their children. 'Oh but they don't understand' - I daresay parents wouldn't understand a bomb either but they wouldn't let their kids loose on it.

I'm fundamentally opposed to anything that assumes choice. But this is particularly galling as it assumes choice on something that isn't illegal.

And all that is before you realise that this is pointless - the measures will be worked around in seconds, almost certainly already are in truth. What a nasty little shit Cameron is, a smooth snake surrounded by parasitic reptile croneys getting fat on the countries failings, and sat opposite him a twerp surrounded by faux imagines of working class vigour surreptitiously suckling on the same failing teet. And sat in the middle a impotent slug, ignored and drying out in the heat.

Oh shit, said teet, thats it we're all porned up, we'll have the ISP stasi about soon enough.

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Anyone who's really determined to access illegal material will be using TOR, as paedophiles and drug dealers have been for years. This sort of thing will stop no one from actually accessing illegal material. The only people who will be inconvenienced are husbands who don't want to tell their wife that they watch a bit of porn.

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A conversation:

 

So, Lynton, just outline the main advantages of this proposal again.

 

Well, David, it gives a significant win to the Mail, and most of the other media will be behind it as well.  It reassures those in the party who were angry about the gay marriage thing that you're sound on moral issues.  The rape thingy can be presented as showing solidarity with women, might counter some of the negative hits you've had on that lately.  It's not something anyone can oppose, and if they do we'll have a field day about them being soft on kiddy rape.  The religious groups will be right behind it, and we can expect them to comment very favourably to their own followers, maybe less so in the media.

 

Right, that all sounds good.  You haven't mentioned how effective it will be in dealing with child exploitation, abuse of vulnerable adults, all that.  What's the position on that front?

 

Sorry?

 

Well, can we estimate the impact on the people who make this stuff, the victims, that sort of thing?

 

Er, no, we're not going there.

 

Well, why not?  That would be pretty useful, don't you think?

 

Look, David, we're not trying to sell this on statistics.  It's the right thing to do.  That's our position.

 

Yes, I know.  But I'd still like to have some background on how effective it will be, what research we've done, how the child protection people welcome it as a major step against paedophiles, all that, in case I get asked.  So what level of reduction in child porn have we estimated this will bring about?

 

Look, it's a message, a signal.  It's really not about numbers.  Don't go there.

 

But what reduction in child porn will we see?  Just give me an overview.

 

Aaaahhh...

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