British government considering a ban on internet porn "to protect the children" (drug, free speech)

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

"We are not coming at this from an anti-porn perspective. We just want to make sure our children aren’t stumbling across things we don’t want them to see," Conservative MP Claire Perry says in the Sunday Times piece.

Technolog - Blimey, a ban on Web porn in Britain?

Looks like certain conservatives in Britain are as anti-free speech as some of our conservatives in the U.S.

[LuckyGem]

They should ban Islam instead.

The impact would be more important than banning porn.

How about banning parents who don't have any sense of parental responsibility to keep porn away from their children?

[Chango]

So ban internet porn, but not porno magazines? Not porno movies? Can children somehow not see them, but suddenly porn is visible on the internet?

I'm suuuuuure they have the childen's safety at heart.

[NomadScribe]

Parental controls probably always dont work.

I remember one of my gigs as a tech instructor as a middle school. The school obviously had parental controls on its computers. Somehow the kids found a way around it and in the middle of class some perverse animation popped up on one of the kids screens. Of course they found it really funny.

What is not so funny is that in working with middle schoolers in a tech class I was privy to see just what they were up to on "myspace." Not so pretty. I was embarrassed, they were not. No shame.

Sexting, myspace, online bullying...theres a crapload of reasons we should look at banning not only internet porn, but other stuff as well. But, it wont happen. Not in our life. Unfortunately, for some.

[LuckyGem]

Originally Posted by NomadScribe

Parental controls probably always dont work.

I remember one of my gigs as a tech instructor as a middle school. The school obviously had parental controls on its computers. Somehow the kids found a way around it and in the middle of class some perverse animation popped up on one of the kids screens. Of course they found it really funny.

What is not so funny is that in working with middle schoolers in a tech class I was privy to see just what they were up to on "myspace." Not so pretty. I was embarrassed, they were not. No shame.

Sexting, myspace, online bullying...theres a crapload of reasons we should look at banning not only internet porn, but other stuff as well. But, it wont happen. Not in our life. Unfortunately, for some.

Ban what some call "adult entertainment" because there are some kids with irresponsible parents who allow them to surf the web unsupervised?

No, I don't agree with that.

[90sman]

If they ban porn, then they should also ban cursing, violence, drug usage and other sexual consent on television, movies, video games and everywhere else. Should they do that as well?

[TempesT68]

Without porn the internet wouldn't be here