Tolerating abuse and exploitation of certain citizens is its own form of tyranny.

certain that plenty of them are not simulations.

And the only other measure the article mentioned was that porn is not automatically provided on an internet connection, and you have to opt in to allowing access to porn sites by clicking on a few option buttons when you initiate your account.

I have no problem with any of that. I certainly don't see tyranny in it.

Some times I wish I was more trusting. I guess I have seen too many use trust to take advantage. Your quest is honorable. Just dont give up too much.

understand what they are seeing.

The suggestion that a couple of key strokes when initiating an account is an imposition by Big Brother strikes me as unrealistic. The powers-that-be who want to know what you are looking at already have the means to know what you are looking at. This doesn't change anything about that for better or worse. So it really isn't about trust. If anything, I am surprised that you trust that the absence of this screen gives you any protections that the presence of this screen would diminish.

Jimmy was connected to everyone who's anyone in British society and British paedophilia.

So pretty much all BDSM porn would be illegal.

Holy shit!! Wtf is wrong with that guy??

Good thing I don't live in UK. Its turning into China.

...Or so I would understand based on what some friends of friends say...It's not like I'd know anything about their content, artistic quality, or even where to find uncensored English-language examples online...

Government officials seek to control anything they are not in control of. The information on the internet is not yet subject to their control. They have seen that China effectively controls their population by controlling what they view on the internet.

This is the first step, and it comes in the most predictable form, an appeal to the welfare of children. Meanwhile, child poverty in the UK is skyrocketing. Currently one in six children lives in poverty. That number will be one in four by 2020. You can tell his interest in children isn't genuine by how he largely ignores the poverty issue to focus on this.

Never believe a conservative government, their motives are not genuine. Many on the left in Britain can see right through this. They don't care about children, they want control.

I also wonder how long it'll be before there's laws that allow the police to break down someone's door and tackle them within minutes of them typing an 'abhorrent' sexual search term into their browsers? You know, gotta 'protect the children' and such.

Seriously, though ... the creeping fascism going on is friggin' out of control.

TPTB of the West are clearly growing jealous of the level of command/control exercised by the Chinese government. Oh, and the Muslim governments of various countries like Iran and KSA ... those governments are exactly what the West needs to more closely imitate. No, really.

This sounds like an excellent use of resources.

I have always thought the one thing we lacked from government was a blacklist of abhorrent internet search terms.

They had me at "blacklist." "Abhorrent" was the icing.

The NSA has lists of suspicious search terms, which is a start, but it's just a list with no color specified.

There's no way a list like that could ever be abused by the authorities.

What's wrong with the idea that if you, say, buy a phone for your 10 year old, you tell the people at the phone store or the ISP that this is a 10yo's phone, and you want porn blocked as best as possible? Rather than making adults 'sign up' as porn consumers?

What's next ... you have to choose which 'classes' of porn you prefer? Shall we make people sign up with the government if they wanna see 'gay porn'? How about if you like to watch 18-19 year olds (i.e. legal, but technically 'teens') having sex?

Also, many 'legitimate' BDSM videos are basically rape simulations. Sure, it's distasteful to many (myself included) but if consenting adults want to take part in this apparently fairly popular sub-genre of porn, and other adults want to watch it ... who is the government or you and I to say it's 'evil' or 'wrong'? Shall we make people sign up to allow 'BDSM' porn on their connections, just in case someone somewhere gets raped, that way Big Brother automatically has a list of 'suspects'?

I don't know about anyone else, but putting everyone's preference for porn/no porn into a big government database, one that everyone themselves 'signed up' for, so it can't really even be legally challenged as 'spying', cause they've given the government the full right to TRACK the stuff for us ... just really rubs me the wrong way. Too much potential for abuse, and for a slippery slope effect for my liking.