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Re:The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil L... by fit2rule on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:24AM (#6979250)
This has everything to do with the Nanny Tory initiative! If you read the article, the point he is making is not that Porn is good, or that O2 are censors, but that: UK Parents are failing at parenthood! And that is exactly the condition that the UK Nanny state is expecting to exploit with such initiatives - and any corporation setting up to serve their government masters is part of the problem. The problem, being, that people do not want to be responsible parents and monitor what their children are doing online.
Re:The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil L... by DanBC on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:44AM (#6979292)
Or maybe it's that parents tried to monitor what their children were doing online, but failed only because asshole marketers refuse to believe that anyone has a right to refuse their spam and were sending graphic pornography to children.
Re:The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil L... by betterunix on Sunday December 29, 2013 @09:29AM (#6979602)
This has not been a problem for a very long time now. We have spam filters and ad blockers -- basically, marketers do not get to show you anything if you do not want them to.