Biggest Four U.K. ISPs Switching To 'Opt-In' System For Pornography

The Guardian:

Subscribers to four of the UK's biggest internet service providers will have to "opt in" if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.

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Comments

[KPinSEA]

04:07 AM on 10/13/2011

We were privileged to experience the true Internet, the open and free exchange of information across borders without corporate and government hindrance.

Watch it disappear as these entities define which content is 'safe' for you. Pornography is an easy target, but the precedent is terrible. An ISP telling you which websites the network connection you pay for can access is no different than your phone company telling you which numbers you can dial, your government telling you which library books you can have.

We'll remember the real Internet fondly.

[MissTake1989]

07:33 PM on 10/12/2011

British people naked.

Enough said.

[Ricky Bobby]

06:03 PM on 10/12/2011

US should have done this years ago.

[jsern]

12:03 PM on 10/12/2011

I would say this would come soon the the US but our GOP reps would not have anything to do while they're at work.

[JScott]

11:19 AM on 10/12/2011

So the .xxx TLD doesn't resolve this?

[emmeaki]

09:10 PM on 10/11/2011

I just wonder what could become of the "opt-in list". Could a an employer somehow find out that Joe in accounting has opted in to view porn. Could he be fired or discriminated against for it? I could see this happening with school teacher and people who work with kids in particular.

[MA]

08:51 PM on 10/11/2011

Can you just opt-in for the good porn?

[TamerAir]

08:01 PM on 10/11/2011

When will human population learn that seeing body parts are not a bad thing, this mentality is stone age

[Quotidien]

02:56 PM on 10/12/2011

National Geographic will not be blocked. So go enjoy yourself there.

[KarateKid]

07:05 PM on 10/11/2011

The Internet was meant to be for freedom of expression. So, now the ISPs want to regulate this. Regardless of how one feels about it, porn is easy to ignore. What is more troubling is -what is next? Are they going to restrict content they don't like? What is this discriminatory act a prelude to?

And, some of you who say it's no big deal must be the same people who say, about the Patriot Act, "if you've done nothing wrong, you have absolutely nothing to worry about."

[Kenya Stephanie Edwards]

05:47 PM on 10/11/2011

That picture is so tacky. Why are her toes hanging over the shoes?!

[wilray]

06:36 PM on 10/11/2011

So she can pick up those dollars with them, but if this is the UK ,shouldn't those be pounds?

[jmoser1973]

05:27 PM on 10/11/2011

I don't think this is a terrible thing. I don't have a problem with porn, but I know the filters we have dont always work. I had filters set when my son was in middle school and he still found porn photo sites at 13. So I solved it by taking the computer out of his room. If this isn't something you need to worry about then opt-in.

[BravoFour]

04:57 PM on 10/11/2011

Porn? Sweet! Where do we sign up?

[All Seeing Guy]

04:55 PM on 10/11/2011

One might be inclined to call this sort of thing the christian equivalent of sharia law lite.

[Beg4Nothing]

04:54 PM on 10/11/2011

Oh here we go again. The conservatives for smaller government and fewer regulations now want bigger government and more regulations, all in the name of "freedom." This is on the way to the USA faster than Tea Party members run to the mailbox on "Fake Disability Check Day." I predict it will have all the success (you can laugh) of Texas' abstinence only education.

[All Seeing Guy]

04:53 PM on 10/11/2011

Even the Brits have their bible thumpers. Oh well, they've officially joined the club of digital censorship nations founded and led by communist China.