UK govt wants all porn sites to prove you're adults

[Divair2]

They tried.

When?

When Cameron called for a vote to intervene in Syria and Parliament told him to fuck off. No 9/11 to justify extremist actions this time around.

[Voltrovia]

I wonder what Enoch Powell and the rest of UKIP think of this policy. They probably love it. As far as political grounding is concerned it may well be yet another ploy for the disgruntled Southern pensioners that have flocked to Farage's fold.

[Draica]

"Are you an Adult?"
"lul yes"
"Are you sure?"
"I confess. I am a 14 year old boy, and I require help for my sexual wants. I apologize for attempting to watch porn."
"...stop fucking trolling"

Not all 14 year olds are like this.

[Priory Academy USSR]

They tried.

When?

Syria.

lolUK

You elected this dumbfuck, deal with it.

Well, 36.1% voted for him.

Through the ultimate lulz that is the British democratic system, Cameron's government has actually been the first majority-approved one in the post-war period.

[Voltrovia]

The Miliband government will be a disaster due to poor leadership, broken policies, Blairite PR-tactics and an ideological basis which is a meld of the ideals of Foot and Disraeli.

Don't get me started.

Do you have next week's lottery numbers as well?

I don't pretend to be able to see the future, the nuances of the above post included. Anyway, all I did was give an unflattering description of his performance to date and changed the tense.

[Dooom35796821595]

When?

When Cameron called for a vote to intervene in Syria and Parliament told him to fuck off. No 9/11 to justify extremist actions this time around.

Exactly, parliament told him to eff of, I never meant Cameron wasn't a bad leader.

[Esternial]

Are they really that stupid that they cannot predict that blocking one method to acquiring porn will just bring more traffic to alternative means?

Piratebay will indubitably become even more popular.

[Geilinor]

Are they really that stupid that they cannot predict that blocking one method to acquiring porn will just bring more traffic to alternative means?

Piratebay will indubitably become even more popular.

David Cameron: "Why can't I just block Piratebay and be done with them!!!"

[Voltrovia]

Divair, why don't you make a poll to see whether people support or are against the policy. The results will probably be overwhelmingly in one direction, judging by the responses so far, but it would be interesting to see what people on NS think about this.

[Multifarity]

Are they really that stupid that they cannot predict that blocking one method to acquiring porn will just bring more traffic to alternative means?

Piratebay will indubitably become even more popular.

I thought that when they installed the:
[Pervert Button: Click Here If You're A Pervert] into everyone's home last year.
Surely downloading porn through torrents will increase, and that method would make you more likely to see extremier and illeagalier things.

[Gauthier]

Why do you like child porn, Ifreann? HMM?!

Children seeing child porn, and dealing the porns to their friends. Soon, children will be selling their bodies on the streets,

Child prostitution with child pimps. *nod*

[DJ Get A Job]

Yes, because children watching porn online is a terrible crime that must be stopped above almost every thing else.
The only thing that we should care more about is movie pirating.

[Gauthier]

Yes, because children watching porn online is a terrible crime that must be stopped above almost every thing else.
The only thing that we should care more about is movie pirating.

Hey now, letting children watch porn makes for an interesting Show and Tell the next day.

[Marcurix]

Children seeing child porn, and dealing the porns to their friends. Soon, children will be selling their bodies on the streets,

Child prostitution with child pimps. *nod*

Do they get little pimp hats? With little canes?

[Gauthier]

Child prostitution with child pimps. *nod*

Do they get little pimp hats? With little canes?

And little pimp slaps. *nod*

[Voltrovia]

Children seeing child porn, and dealing the porns to their friends. Soon, children will be selling their bodies on the streets,

Child prostitution with child pimps. *nod*

It looks like my monopoly on telling the future has just collapsed.

[Divair2]

Divair, why don't you make a poll to see whether people support or are against the policy. The results will probably be overwhelmingly in one direction, judging by the responses so far, but it would be interesting to see what people on NS think about this.

ok

[Britannic Realms]

I wonder what Enoch Powell and the rest of UKIP think of this policy. They probably love it. As far as political grounding is concerned it may well be yet another ploy for the disgruntled Southern pensioners that have flocked to Farage's fold.

I think that comparing Farage to Enoch Powell is wrong. At least Powell voted to get rid of the death penalty and legalise homosexuality.

[Multifarity]

The poll is biased, I'll click on the 'Fuck the tories' option even if the other option is: 'Free cake.'

[Dooom35796821595]

The poll is biased, I'll click on the 'Fuck the tories' option even if the other option is: 'Free cake.'

Woah, let's not get crazy...How can you refuse free cake?

[Greater-London]

One problem with this is that its probably going to push young teenage boys to darker part of the internet to find pornography; perhaps places where you can find weird and illegal pornography too.

[Greater-London]

I think that comparing Farage to Enoch Powell is wrong. At least Powell voted to get rid of the death penalty and legalise homosexuality.

UKIP of course are pro capital punishment and criminalizing of homosexuality ...

[Dyakovo]

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/04/20/government-introduce-law-requiring-porn-sites-obtain-proof-users-are-over-18

The Government plans to make anyone aiming to view porn online prove that they are over 18 years of age through new requirements for website owners.

The new laws will see adult website owners forced to block anyone unable to provide proof that they are over the age of 18, in a bid to crack down on children viewing pornographic websites, The Sunday Times has reported.

The system is expected to be similar to one used abroad, with credit card details or official records being provided those visiting pornographic websites in order to gain access. Sites that fail to comply with the measures will be blocked.

A statement from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, said: “We are legislating to put R18 material that can only be sold in licensed sex shops behind access controls on video-on demand services.

“The same protections should apply online as offline and we are clarifying the law to make sure that is the case — we want the legislation to be in place by the end of the year. No decision has been made about offshore sites.”

The proposal would follow Prime Minister David Cameron’s introduction of web filters by internet providers to block access to unsuitable material, and combat online child pornography.

Fuck the Tory govt. This type of authoritarian shit is the exact reason why I absolutely detest David Cameron.

In theory I support this.

[Voltrovia]

I wonder what Enoch Powell and the rest of UKIP think of this policy. They probably love it. As far as political grounding is concerned it may well be yet another ploy for the disgruntled Southern pensioners that have flocked to Farage's fold.

I think that comparing Farage to Enoch Powell is wrong. At least Powell voted to get rid of the death penalty and legalise homosexuality.

On a serious note, I would compare Farage to Powell on the grounds that he is the modern equivalent of Powell - he sees his world collapsing around him and, having roused the same two groups, the old guard of British politics and society as well as the patriotic working class, he seeks to destroy what is in his view the coalition of Big Government, Big Business and above all Big Bureaucracy and transform the British political system by shaking its very foundations. It can be contended that he is today's analogue of Enoch Powell, whatever your view of either individual, purely on the basis that they were and are both magnetic and divisive figures whose storming onto the political stage has been accompanied by major changes in the metric of public opinion and the treating of issues by the Establishment, as well as the accompanying Press hurricane.

He is certainly not the same, but Farage is an analogue of Powell, in my opinion. At the heart of UKIP's leadership philosophy I feel there exists a certain level of mourning for the failures of Powell's movement, and an overwhelming conviction that the hard (but not far) Right can be successful the second time round.

I am not trying to make specific comparisons between policy (although you'll find that UKIP's ideas and Powell's have a great deal in common in such places) as such an argument is vulnerable to attack on a fundamental level. Two men, each of their own times, with a remarkably similar view of their foes and their objectives.

[Britannic Realms]

I think that comparing Farage to Enoch Powell is wrong. At least Powell voted to get rid of the death penalty and legalise homosexuality.

UKIP of course are pro capital punishment and criminalizing of homosexuality ...

A lot of them are. Not all of them, but most of them.