This is just another damned example of authoritarian control at the governmental level. I am sure there are more pressing economic or foreign policy matters that Cameron could be expending his political capital on instead of this kind of bullshit.

England is heading backwards to the Iron Age.

What Cameron is attempting to do is to shame people wholesale. It is the "Father State" attempting to exercise thought control over an entire country.

Super Nanny state, indeed.

I mean,...what's the fascination?

(Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)
This is probably a way he sees to getting what he wants without paying for it
It also feeds into the stupid who believe there are simple solutions to all life's problems

So the people are given a "choice"... they can have a filter installed.. or NOT.

Not exactly a crackdown on porn.

This is just putting the cost of the filter on the internet providers, instead on the home user.
I can see how some parents might want to turn on the filter, but never knew how to do it themselves.

It will be interesting to see what the majority of people choose.

Btw, in the USA... porn is watched equally by men and women. It goes back and forth 49/51 in percentages almost every year.

...to register as either a good citizen or as a dirty, filthy porn-looker-atter.

And anyone who thinks those people won't face consequences is a bigger fool than I can imagine. Unless a majority of users decide they don't want the filter.

Everyone has said they would like access to online pornography, scuppering David Cameron’s plans to make such content available only to people who say they want it.

The Prime Minister is expected to outline plans today for online pornography to be made available only in homes that ‘opt-in’ to such content, seemingly unaware that everyone has already done so.

Internet user Simon Williams told us, “The moment I hear there was a plan for opt-in, I put my hand in the air. Not that one, that one was busy.”

“If the government is somehow under the impression that this nation’s secret perverts will too ashamed to opt-in to get access to their porn fix, then they are sorely mistaken.”

http://newsthump.com/2013/07/22/cameron-porn-block-plans-in-disarray-as-100-of-homes-opt-in/

A spokesperson explained, “The mistake we have made is underestimating how thoroughly depraved the general public is, and how tedious masturbation can actually be without access to a myriad of online filth.”

but think I'd opt out on the basis kids do get access unwittingly or for teenagers by design.

My sister recently told me her 10 y/o was getting explicit redirects and pop-ups so I'll reformat and reinstall his laptop OS soon.

I don't feel this is censorship but freedom to choose and hope the ISP design a decent filter and not fuck it up.

Time for him to file for unemployment!

wish they could do the same.

On second thought: they wish they could force others to do the same, while they are free to do as they please, again.

What's he hiding?

Those who shout the loudest tend to be those with the most to run from.

It's both pointless and Puritan. It's just to appeal to the conservative base, many of whom are undoubtedly aficionados of the genre. So even there, he might well lose votes. It seems like the sort of thing desperate politicians do - his popularity must be "going down".

Prudish ranting on half of the screen.

Titillation on the other half.

Just don't think about how we were spying on you.

what pedophiles network is going to purposely allow themselves to be found so easily through key words like "child sex?" That would be like a crack house posting a billboard outside saying "free crack!"

Secondly, Google is already on this. Google is secretly building a database of illegal stuff and is going to censor those results (as they should anyways, obviously).

Finally, I'm not sure that violent porn should be outlawed. Yeah it's weird and creepy, but it's not like anyone actually got hurt in them if they're simulated.

This seems like more of a RW censor attempt than doing anything productive.