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Re:UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID by viraptor on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:24AM (#12742813)
If you want to filter traffic at home, I don't think it's that hard. There's a whole industry trying to solve that problem. Google "internet family filter" and choose one. Your ISP probably provides one as well (my last 3 ISPs did) I'll likely use one as well when I have kids. But I'm absolutely against any government program to enforce the same.

But my experience is much different. Apart from sexualised models advertising things, I've not run into anything (by accident) I wouldn't share at a family table.

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Re:UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID by Unbeliever69 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:56AM (#12744347)
It is SO easy to break NetNanny an the like. They don't work. Any 12 year old determined kid can figure it out. MAYBE if you combined a family friendly ISP with a parental controlled fire wall, AND several layers of software/browser based filtering this could be accomplished.

Putting this aside, no matter how much you protect your children at home, you can't protect them away from home.

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Re:UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID by ahartman00 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:03PM (#12746693)
"It is SO easy to break NetNanny an the like"

IIRC, people in china have no problem using a vpn or whatever to bypass the great firewall? Why would government purchases blocking software be more effective than parent purchased blocking software?

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Re:UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID by viraptor on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:40PM (#12747487)
mobiuscog's comment was in the context of accidental content, not one you want to find. There's no solution for the later.

And I'm not sure stacking protection helps. There's going to be a massive overlap in the lists of those services.

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Re:UK Government proposes porn-viewing ID by ipedrazas on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:58AM (#12743308)
We agree that government is not the right way of solving this issue, but it's incredibly easy to have images to show up that are far from appropriate for children... or that you would share at the table
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