Government Wants to Regulate Internet Porn

If you don't want your kid to go on porn on the computer, then you supervise them whilst they are using it.

This could ruin marriages.

The husband opts into porn without the wife knowing, the wife goes onto the computer and opens a porn website to see if her husband has opted in, the page loads, quite obviously the husband has been looking at porn. And this will be more for the older generations, the younger generations should be embracing porn into their hearts and orifices

What's wrong with it? And no, I didn't neg you.

Surely a lot of people torrent their porn or have other ways of getting around this restriction anyway?
I have mixed feelings... If it prevents young children accidentally accessing stuff, I think it's a good thing.
Have a funny feeling it won't work. Porn is meant to be for over 18s according to the law but I don't think that one gets followed a lot

Well, I think that pornography in its present form can lead to increased misogyny and chauvinism (cf. titles of general porn videos, e.g. "black whores whipped by white rod", "blonde bitch face-****ed at work", "slut's **** destroyed by heavy load" etc.). I don't know about the treatment of the actors, but that may be an issue too (of course, the ones at the top of the heirarchy get a fairly good deal, lots of money for little work, but most porn actors aren't at the top of the heirarchy).

I watch pornography (as you might have guessed from my intimate knowledge of titles), but I can see issues with it and see how it can negatively affect our ways of thinking (i.e. what psychologists would call operant conditioning). Of course, adults can do what they want in their own homes (within legal limits), but children should be protected from the derogatory newspeak of porn, at least until they're [theoretically] responsible adults. And I believe that the best way to do that is through a legal system such as this, since parents can't/shouldn't have to monitor their childrens' viewing every second of the day. It presumably wouldn't work if the father of the family, for example, subscribed to watch porn though.

To be honest, I'd rather the young 'uns were out bonking each other behind the bike shed than watching porn.

What would you do for uni networks?

A good idea; pornography's become too pervasive in our general culture.



(Awaiting neg rep from the febrile-groined teens that populate this place. )

No this CANNOT happen! I will actually hold a protest in Trafalgar Square if this happens.

lol imagine if you protest and you meet your dad there, and then round the corner comes your mum.

You have 22 neg points, expect more in the following hours. Does it feel good to be negged?

It's not the governments job to take away the parents choice of what is acceptable for their child. If the government try to interfere, that's a breach of my civil liberties.

No this CANNOT happen! I will actually hold a protest in Trafalgar Square if this happens.

But parents would still be able to show hardcore anal sex to their toddlers, if they so chose -- they'd just have to opt in.