My take on this is its not the Governments job to block people from seeing illicit images, it is there job when children are being abused and I agree that steps should be taken to protect the vulnerable. But....
Its your job as a parent to make sure little
Billy Nigel isnt watching hours of topless women jumping on trampolines. There is plenty of software out there to filter sites for those easily offended, it seems to me it would be easier for the Brits to subsidize something like that than block all offensive sites.
The really important thing to note here is its not going to stop hard offenders (The real problem). Theyll TOR and proxy, if anything the UK gov has just slowed down their internet connection.
Heres a really crappy wired.uk article:
Quote:
The British prime minister's internet filters will be about more than just hardcore pornography, according to information obtained by the Open Rights Group.
The organization, which campaigns for digital freedoms, has spoken to some of the Internet Service Providers that will be constructing Cameron's content filters. They discovered that a host of other categories of supposedly-objectionable material may be on the block-list.
As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "
violent material", "
extremist related content", "
anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "
alcohol" and "
smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "
web forums" and "
esoteric material", whatever that is. "
Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course.