UK Porn Crackdown

In Portugal there are basically no restriction to Access the internet, in fact the government can’t force no one to describe what sites they want to watch as it will violate the constitution in the principle of personal privacy.

Of course that illegal downloads are a crime in Portugal as well the maintenance of child porn sites and things in that line.

Back to the topic, there is a study (I will try to find it) that in fact only 1% of the kids/underage people surfing are accessing porn sites, they usually spend all their time in social networks and other sites of that kind, and basically even when parents think they are doing any parent control, kids are smart enough to trick them.

The law that is presented in this thread is in my opinion nonsense; since pornography is legal then to make any adult to make a statement that he wants to access these sites are a covered way of censorship and a way of coercion to avoid adults to in a open way to access porn.

I’m not a prude person, but in my case porn is also something that doesn’t say anything to me.

By the way when I was a teen I still remember when there was a older friend that was going to the magazine store and used to bought a adult magazine for the entire group to watch. So where was parental control there?

Now with the internet maybe things got easier, but this measure in my opinion has as real target the parents and not their children.

As usual too much control is silly and probably will not work what next? Limitation to the access to social networks because it could be against moral? All of this is an hypocrisy, just a sign that “something is rotten in the kingdom”

Every while they catch huge pedophile rings which now even more getting internationally organized and more spreading throughout eu and americas well asia too.

I guess everywhere humans are descending too animal state thanks to IT technology.

On NBC I watched maybe 5 years ago that they busted a jewish religious rabbai who tried to have sex with 13 year old girl through some chatting service. That means even more religious high people are getting more hornier through internet services. (that bust video is on youtube, one can easily watch that)
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Mandtugai!

I guess everywhere humans are descending too animal state thanks to IT technology.

I guess everywhere humans are descending too animal state thanks to IT technology.

Or the more connected world means that one hears the stories more often.

Well, it just means everyone has opened the front door via the internet wire to every crook, not just the local ones.

To respond to your question about the United States, we have freedom of speech BUT child porn will get you arrested. Soft porn such as what you might find in Play Boy is allowed. I can't tell you exactly where the line is because I suspect sometimes the government is not sure where the line is.
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Regarding the topic of child abuse, the Catholic Church as a huge debt to society, as during decades the Vatican had protected abusers and silenced the victims.

Even after all the scandals, as a catholic I feel ashamed that no real measures were taken against the child abusers inside the church.

A priest is more likely to be excommunicated because he got in a marital relation with a woman than if he is abusing children. What happens often is that abusing priests are transferred to another city where they can continue abusing new children, and the victims are silenced trough fear and money.

In a sentence this behavior from the Vatican is at minimum embarrassing to all Catholics and to society.

It would be an easy matter for ISP's to keep two lists of customers who have opted in or out. What happens if the opt-in list gets compromised and the details get known or published?

I'd say buddhist monks are at neck and neck race with catholic priests for abusing kids or even worse state since that type of legal protection standard is far lower in asia wide than eu.

But off course the newer european buddhist monks are far cleaner typos since they penetrated to newer european territory for just few decades.
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Mandtugai!

Well britain was over for a millenium in catholic or protestant and you know some dirts in that area but mongolia was for 3 centuries buddhist country so I know some dirts in my area. So buddhist monks are not that clean as you've learnt from your close by fresh kind of buddhist practices. Expect that actual asian buddhism has tons of dirts not much better than european religious situations and crimes.

In Mongolia off course we highly support tightening of internet traffic rules especially porn. Since just before 1990 we were nearly same as current north korean tight communist regime. From this year mongolian parlament is preparing on new tight rule laws to follow suit of eu situation and usa situations.
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Mandtugai!

Ok I hear what you say. But would you not agree that parents of young children of school age, would want to be assured that anyone who teaches them or has contact with them in after school group activities, is not a porn viewer. I think I would.

It depends upon which side of the fence you are on. I can see many employers finding it relevant whether their employees are regular porn viewers. But don't let's digress here into whether porn is harmful or not. The subject matter at hand is, should porn be censured in the manner proposed, and what pros and cons are there?

With all these databases in existence, how long before one is denied Internet access due to viewing the wrong site.......