No more porn for our United Kingdom bros

" @FizzleNizzleBear: Socialism - "  Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership " eg the state is in control of as much as possible, and individuals second. It dilutes self responsibility and makes the governments matter to deal with everything "

" @FizzleNizzleBear: Socialism - "  Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership " eg the state is in control of as much as possible, and individuals second. It dilutes self responsibility and makes the governments matter to deal with everything "

Conservatism by and large, would also hold no qualms in stopping the moral degradation of society by outlawing social ills such as pornography.

In fact the only brand of conservatism, and in modern times it's a loosely associated branch are the Libertarians, who would hold that such moral decisions need to be made at the individual level. 

" @Meteora said:

" @oatz said:

" @Erzs said:

" I don't see what's wrong with banning children from watching porn. And for the adults that are getting annoyed by it, is it that hard to just go out and meet people these days? Plus you can opt-in or whatever and then there are those magazines and TV channels! It ain't so bad! "

It's called censorship. Even though this may not be nation-breaking, the attitude you have towards it is just encouraging it. Who knows what they'll censor next? "

Yeah that's right! What gives that the government can censor me from my hate speech?!  Banning porn sounds almost impossible and laughable. Even with a censored state like China there's some loopholes that the locales can work around to getting information. "

Banning hate speech and entertainment are two entirely different things and shouldn't even be compared. "

On the plus side, my hard drive is going to be worth a fortune.

" I think its a great idea. Kids do not need to be exposed to that stuff, it will give them a horrible view of women. It is kind of sad because alot of kids are already on that, or atleast i think so, i dont remember say half of the crap i hear little kids say on playstation during call of duty.  "

" And here I thought they just grew up.  I guess this is sad for the kids then, having to go out there and get in a healthy relationship like the rest of us. Why won't anyone think of the children?! "

why cant parents take responsibility

People are really against the natural ethics of masturbation.

How will the little kids learn what a bagina is?

Porn is not that big of a deal guys. 
 
Everyone looks at it.  Everyone looked at it when they were kids. 
 
You people ranting on the harm it does to society sound like those anti-video game nutjobs.

This kind of thing was on my phone when I first got it, and I had to opt out.
 
Never watched porn on my iPhone, but it just blocked everything, and apps wouldn't work properly.
 
Felt really sleezy going into the vodaphone store to get it taken off too.

It's almost like no one reads the article and continues to just go by the misleading topic title. They aren't banning anything, they don't give a shit about porn. What it amounts to is putting a Google safe search on the ISP and allowing users to turn it off if they want to or keep it on because there's porn everywhere (yes, even if you pay attention to your children's internet habits they'll still see porn) because it's the internet.

doubt it will happen

" @FizzleNizzleBear: i am not for one second suggesting they do the whole thing behind socialism is your work for the state, not the state works for you and it dictates how you should live your life theres been a lot of that going on, not just in Britain but across the EU and some people are annoyed at it "

I do most of my masturbating at nudist beaches so this really won't affect me.

One MP is proposing this - it has a long way to go before it actually passes. And to be fair, the idea of an ISP level block to stop inappropriate content ending up in the hands of children isn't a fundamentally bad idea. The current proposals don't seem to be the ideal way of going about this, but they're in the very early stages and will go through multiple revisions and improvements before it becomes law, if that ever happens at all. It's not even close to actually happening.
 
As always, the media is using attention grabbing headlines over a story that is hardly worth reporting at all.

" I just tried to download pornography, and it worked. I am British. "

Maybe you guys should riot like you did when they raised university tuition.

I remember the days when you were lucky if you found a free 30 second preview online, let alone streaming a full feature-length AAA Porn Parody in HD for free. Fuckin kids these days don't know how lucky they are.  
 
And yeah, it's just a plan, I'm sure it'll get enough men sweating that it won't happen.

riots ensue 

" @hicks91 said:

" @FizzleNizzleBear: i am not for one second suggesting they do the whole thing behind socialism is your work for the state, not the state works for you and it dictates how you should live your life theres been a lot of that going on, not just in Britain but across the EU and some people are annoyed at it "

You really have no clue do you? This isn't socialism, it's not even close. If you wanted to class it as anything it would be social conservatism, you know the same people who didn't want rock and roll, violent films, gay marriage, swearing on TV, porn in the newsagents or sex on TV. They people who support these things and fought against the liberalisation of our country were for the most part Conservatives.  "

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" @hicks91 said:

" @FizzleNizzleBear: i am not for one second suggesting they do the whole thing behind socialism is your work for the state, not the state works for you and it dictates how you should live your life theres been a lot of that going on, not just in Britain but across the EU and some people are annoyed at it "

You really have no clue do you? This isn't socialism, it's not even close. If you wanted to class it as anything it would be social conservatism, you know the same people who didn't want rock and roll, violent films, gay marriage, swearing on TV, porn in the newsagents or sex on TV. They people who support these things and fought against the liberalisation of our country were for the most part Conservatives.  "

State control is inherently socialist. I take it you weren't paying much attention during the past 13 years when the socialist Labour government banned smoking, tobacco advertising, handguns, fox hunting, doing anything at all to your home unless the councils lets you, letting you car pool to take kids to school or football games without a CRB check, made the UK the country with the most CCTV on the planet, tried to introduce a nationwide system of ID cards, doubled alcohol duty "to curb the binge drinking problem", added the congestion charge, created the M4 bus lane, created a four THOUSAND page manual for headteachers, banned apple bobbing and replaced face with chopsticks because it "spread germs"... should I go on? It's got nothing to do with liberalism/conservatism, it's authoritarianism/libertarianism.   This internet ban is impossible to implement anyway, it's just an idea that got thrown into the media ballpark to gauge the public reaction.  "

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" @Buck_Sexington said:

" @hicks91 said:

" @FizzleNizzleBear: i am not for one second suggesting they do the whole thing behind socialism is your work for the state, not the state works for you and it dictates how you should live your life theres been a lot of that going on, not just in Britain but across the EU and some people are annoyed at it "

You really have no clue do you? This isn't socialism, it's not even close. If you wanted to class it as anything it would be social conservatism, you know the same people who didn't want rock and roll, violent films, gay marriage, swearing on TV, porn in the newsagents or sex on TV. They people who support these things and fought against the liberalisation of our country were for the most part Conservatives.  "

State control is inherently socialist. I take it you weren't paying much attention during the past 13 years when the socialist Labour government banned smoking, tobacco advertising, handguns, fox hunting, doing anything at all to your home unless the councils lets you, letting you car pool to take kids to school or football games without a CRB check, made the UK the country with the most CCTV on the planet, tried to introduce a nationwide system of ID cards, doubled alcohol duty "to curb the binge drinking problem", added the congestion charge, created the M4 bus lane, created a four THOUSAND page manual for headteachers, banned apple bobbing and replaced face with chopsticks because it "spread germs"... should I go on? It's got nothing to do with liberalism/conservatism, it's authoritarianism/libertarianism.   This internet ban is impossible to implement anyway, it's just an idea that got thrown into the media ballpark to gauge the public reaction.  "

You don't seem to know what the word Socialist or it's use in political terms means, all the things you have mentioned are an increase in state control, nothing exactly new, which can easily occur with a  socialist or conservative government. Also Labour haven't been a socialist party since 1996. "

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" @Buck_Sexington said:

" @hicks91 said:

" @FizzleNizzleBear: i am not for one second suggesting they do the whole thing behind socialism is your work for the state, not the state works for you and it dictates how you should live your life theres been a lot of that going on, not just in Britain but across the EU and some people are annoyed at it "

You really have no clue do you? This isn't socialism, it's not even close. If you wanted to class it as anything it would be social conservatism, you know the same people who didn't want rock and roll, violent films, gay marriage, swearing on TV, porn in the newsagents or sex on TV. They people who support these things and fought against the liberalisation of our country were for the most part Conservatives.  "

State control is inherently socialist. I take it you weren't paying much attention during the past 13 years when the socialist Labour government banned smoking, tobacco advertising, handguns, fox hunting, doing anything at all to your home unless the councils lets you, letting you car pool to take kids to school or football games without a CRB check, made the UK the country with the most CCTV on the planet, tried to introduce a nationwide system of ID cards, doubled alcohol duty "to curb the binge drinking problem", added the congestion charge, created the M4 bus lane, created a four THOUSAND page manual for headteachers, banned apple bobbing and replaced face with chopsticks because it "spread germs"... should I go on? It's got nothing to do with liberalism/conservatism, it's authoritarianism/libertarianism.   This internet ban is impossible to implement anyway, it's just an idea that got thrown into the media ballpark to gauge the public reaction.  "

You don't seem to know what the word Socialist or it's use in political terms means, all the things you have mentioned are an increase in state control, nothing exactly new, which can easily occur with a  socialist or conservative government. Also Labour haven't been a socialist party since 1996. "

more state money = more state control, it's very simple. Labour don't like to call themselves socialist but it's blindingly obvious when you look at everything tney've done - How isn't it socialist to go "these people are poor. Obviously not because they're thick, or because they spent the time they could have spent making something of their lives in the pub, so let's give these poor victims of circumstance MORE TAX MONEY!!"?  I suspect you're just unaware of the facts. "

I think it's a good thing.

These measures seem pretty unrealistic.

Even if this did take effect they couldn't block everything out there. Even if they Can there is still plenty of stuff out there, even your IMAGINATION.

" I just tried to download pornography, and it worked. I am British. "

Hotspot Shield is going to get a lot more downloads from the UK.

" Even if this did take effect they couldn't block everything out there. Even if they Can there is still plenty of stuff out there, even your IMAGINATION. "

Remember when that teen got pregnant, the dad was a 10 year old, it made the news. Turned out he wasn't the father. That happened in Britain right?

" Remember when that teen got pregnant, the dad was a 10 year old, it made the news. Turned out he wasn't the father. That happened in Britain right? "

" I just tried to download pornography, and it worked. I am British. "

Government should stop fucking with our rights and content.

" Government should stop fucking with our rights and content. "

Productivity of UK increases overnight.

Stupidity that will never be enforced for a multitude of reasons. not to mention the hundreds of millions taxing porn brings in every year and the fact the ISPs do what they want. 
 
And you can't black every pornographic site on the internet, it's a complete impossibility. Thats why they're working on establishing the new XXX root domain.

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by blocking internet pornography unless parents request it,

i haven't been following this story, but what does this mean? can someone just call their internet provider and say they want porn sites unblocked or something? "

" WHAAAAAAAAAT?  What am I going to do without my free porn? Fucking scumbag government! SET FIRE TO THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT "

" Maybe you guys should riot like you did when they raised university tuition. "

And you guys say Americans are prudes.

If it goes through with, it's not going to stop townies, chavs, neds from fucking up the country, which has already had a 24 year old grandmother in the news.

" And you guys say Americans are prudes. "

" Hard times for young British men.
 
If you know what I mean... "

" @melcene said:

" And you guys say Americans are prudes. "

Someone just read the headline. "