UK Drops 'Opt-in for Porn' Plans Due to Lack of Support
Results of public consultation are mixed.
Earlier this year, the UK government opened up a consultation on proposed methods of shielding children from pornographic or unsavory content on the internet. The paper, published at a UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) conference in June, asked for feedback on three options for keeping children safe online. All three options involved blocking porn on an ISP level (whether it was an 'opt-in for porn' solution, or an unavoidable choice on whether or not you wanted filters in place). This week, it emerged that the government has dropped the idea.
According to the BBC, ministers have rejected the plans to automatically block porn on all computers due to a lack of support. The BBC reports that the government received 3,500 responses to the 10-week consultation. Apparently, 35 percent of parents wanted an automatic bar in place, while 15 percent wanted some filtered content and the option to block additional material. Thirteen percent responded that they would like to see a system that asked what you wanted your children to be able to access. The BBC reports that taking respondents as a whole, 80 percent were against all forms of control.
While plans to have ISPs block porn for subscribers have been dropped, the government says internet providers should encourage parents to switch on parental controls that allow for some level of filtering.

These are the same parents who believe it's totally acceptable that others be inconvenienced by their kids (for example, being noisy in the cinema) just because they chose to procreate. Perhaps they imagine, if others must put up with it in real life, why not online?
Lets keep it clean ...
Don't down-rate him... He is right, and it's funny.
Careful, your American is showing.
In the rest of the world a minister's job is politics, vs the US where some minister's religion is politics.
They say they care soooooooooo much but not enough to find out about the parental controls in Windows?
The law should have been a way to opt-in to a porn-block system so a parent can simply tell their ISP "No Porn Please" for their home interwebs.
"Opt-in for porn" is BS. It puts YOU on a list for tracking WHO watches porn and what kind of porn.
Sounds like religion motivated the people who drafted that legislation.
Once again the power of the Poontang wins. Once the world understands sex is human nature and not something to be shoved in a back closet and forgotten the better the world will be as a whole. Teach your kids what they need to know about sex or the porn industry will.