British Prime Minister to Consider Porn Blocking Plans

[Riftsaw]

I think your confused by reading that paragraph. Nobody is denying access to the website as you can 'opt-in' to access it. You'd probably be 'denyed' access for a total of 10s it takes to log into your acccount at your-isp.com or by telephoning your-isp-phone-number and giving your info.

This is pretty much akin to the 'Enter/Leave' button already existing on adult websites but with a internet-wide enter/leave button where you can avoid all adult content with one 'leave' button to protect your young 8-year-olds from looking up pornography online.

This idea would be great for business/schools to be able to turn-off porn-access to your Internet connection. It would safe administration costs for IT departments to an extent.

They could just as easily make it opt-in and I'm sure you know most schools and businesses already have filters/proxies in place for this type of thing. Even if this was adopted they'd still have to run proxy/filtering services because there's more than just porn out there that schools and businesses don't want people accesses during school/business hours.

This feels like a non-issue personally. There are plenty of established ways to filter this type of stuff at the end-user level. Every windows PC going back to XP has some sort of parental or content controls that can be setup to block just about anything.

I'm not disputing the convenience of having the ISP handle it for you however, just that it should be opt-in, not opt-out.

 

[ManofGod]

I know you probably won't read it, since you don't seem to want to listen to what other people are saying in response to you. But options do exist.

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2...-makes-it-easier-to-block-porn-from-your-kid/

There's a good example.

I am listening and do 100% understand what those services are and what they do. (I am a computer professional myself. Not saying I know everything, but I do know this.) I am intimately familiar with opendns.

However, that is not what I want, I want it to be blocked at the ISP level. (If you do not, fine, but I do.) The fact is, I would pay a monthly fee if it were available, but it is not and probably never will be.

 

[cbutters]

I am listening and do 100% understand what those services are and what they do. (I am a computer professional myself. Not saying I know everything, but I do know this.) I am intimately familiar with opendns.

However, that is not what I want, I want it to be blocked at the ISP level. (If you do not, fine, but I do.) The fact is, I would pay a monthly fee if it were available, but it is not and probably never will be.

Just trying to understand your point of view more.... is the reason you want it blocked at the ISP level because it would make it a more accessible feature for common customers who don't want to deal with, or do not have the knowledge to utilize software or editing dns entries?

Because the only thing that an ISP would do to filter would be to change you to their own filtered DNS server to filter content anyways. As long as you understand how to, you can achieve the exact same result by configuring your own filtered DNS entries.... I don't understand why you would want to pay for something you could easily do yourself since you are familiar with computers/networking, etc....

The only thing I can think is you want it to be easier for OTHER people to filter their internet content, the net affect being that it would be harder for your kids to get access to porn even at their friends houses.... etc...