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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce
You mean a girlfriend from the internet?????? EEEEWWwwwwuuuuu 
Anyway filter idea already dropped. Now that's policy on your feet...being dropped like a hot coal. I saw the original internet filter lists that Labour proposed...they included many sites that were not porn but sites the government objected to...aka censorship at their beckoning! |
I think what you should say is that talk of the filter has been dropped. If they are going to drop it so easily why was the idea ever in print?
Although porn is a blight on society attempting to control it in this manner is likely to be about as effective as the 'war on drugs' (which has been failing since 1971). I don't know how it will happen but, if the demand is there, someone will find a way around it. Then there could be (will be?) creeping censorship. First the risque and erotic will be lumped in with porn and in the end, if some people have their way, you won't be able to watch Billy Connolly because of the F-bombs. Next would be what some will assert to be 'illegal sites' such as Wikileaks and other whistleblower sites and then 'subversive' sites such as GetUp and the socialists. In the end even the IPCC would be banded for spreading panic about the climate!
Exagerated? Probably. But this is certainly the direction the policy points us and history has shown that when good people don't (or can't?) stand up to bad policies then very extreme outcomes can result. Nip it in the bud.