As a liberal, I support the UK's proposed ban of online porn.

[velvtacheeze]

BBC News - Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
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This is government action at its best. Make the pervos and weirdos opt in instead of the other way around. Will this stifle free speech? Yes, it will. Boo hoo for you if you have to go through the rigamarole of opting in to get your online porn, loser. My amount sympathy for your cause is the exact same size as your penis: Microscopic.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Wow,

I believe everything that doesn't harm others should be legal.

 

[dilloduck]

Wow,

I believe everything that doesn't harm others should be legal.

Sometimes liberals agree with you. Other times they don't. They are consistently wishy washy.

 

[nodoginnafight]

I'm a moderate and I could live with a system in which you had to request and then provide proof of age to receive pornography.

 

[dilloduck]

BBC News - Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
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This is government action at its best. Make the pervos and weirdos opt in instead of the other way around. Will this stifle free speech? Yes, it will. Boo hoo for you if you have to go through the rigamarole of opting in to get your online porn, loser. My amount sympathy for your cause is the exact same size as your penis: Microscopic.

Is this because the UK is a Muslim country now ?

 

[NightFox]

I could live with a system in which you had to request and then provide proof of age to receive pornography.

Why do you care what other people do on their own computers? and how would you propose to impose such restrictions on individual liberty?

Not to mention:
Going to a porn site already equals a "request"
How do you propose providing "proof of age" to a porn site?

 

[nodoginnafight]

I could live with a system in which you had to request and then provide proof of age to receive pornography.

Why do you care what other people do on their own computers? and how would you propose to impose such restrictions on individual liberty?

Not to mention:
Going to a porn site already equals a "request"
How do you propose providing "proof of age" to a porn site?

I don't support restrictions on individual liberty.
You think 12-year-olds ought to be able to buy booze?
I don't think they should be able access porn either.

 

[dilloduck]

Just wait until the Imam's take over----lots of things will be restricted.

( If you have kids you can child proof the computer. )

 

[Katzndogz]

This is the least restrictive means to protect those who choose not to inadvertently be assaulted by on line porn. No one is being denied access. They can have all they want.

 

[FA_Q2]

BBC News - Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
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This is government action at its best. Make the pervos and weirdos opt in instead of the other way around. Will this stifle free speech? Yes, it will. Boo hoo for you if you have to go through the rigamarole of opting in to get your online porn, loser. My amount sympathy for your cause is the exact same size as your penis: Microscopic.

Liberals are like that. They usually have no problem kicking in your door and demanding that you are not allowed to do something that hurts no one and interferes with nothing that is their business.

So I guess you will be dropping the whole get the government out of your bedroom as you are clearly asking them to enter your bedroom and control what your innocent little eyes are exposed to.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C. S. Lewis

 

[nodoginnafight]

This is the least restrictive means to protect those who choose not to inadvertently be assaulted by on line porn. No one is being denied access. They can have all they want.

The position that everyone - no matter their age - should be able to purchase any product they choose, and view whatever materials they want to view is a little too radical for my tastes.

I could back a similar requirement here in the U.S.

 

[NightFox]

I don't support restrictions on individual liberty.

Well other than forcing people to jump through some form of arbitrary bureaucratic hoops to view some arbitrarily defined form of publication on their own computers over a network that they pay for you mean.

You think 12-year-olds ought to be able to buy booze?

What does that have to do with people viewing porn on their own computers? Are you suggesting that "pornography" (whatever the official definition of that turns out to be) be a controlled substance now? What's next on the soft censorship list lingerie catalogs?

I don't think they should be able access porn either.

That's nice, then do what's required to keep your own kids from lookin' at it and let other parents make their own decisions regarding their own children.

I'm still curious how you propose to implement such restrictions and what the process for providing "proof of age" to porn sites is.

 

[nodoginnafight]

Are you suggesting that some parents may allow their children to view pornography and they should be able to do that if they choose?

 

[NightFox]

Are you suggesting that some parents may allow their children to view pornography and they should be able to do that if they choose?

I'm not suggesting it, I'm flat out saying that it's the right of every parent to make that decision with respect to their own children but I'm not suggesting that it's a GOOD decision.

BTW I'm still curious how you propose to implement such restrictions and what the process for providing "proof of age" to porn sites is.

 

[nodoginnafight]

Ok, then I will respectfully agree to disagree with you.

 

[NightFox]

Ok, then I will respectfully agree to disagree with you.

That's cool as long as you respectfully agree not to attempt to use government as a club to violate my rights (and I always show you the same courtesy).

 

[High_Gravity]

BBC News - Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
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This is government action at its best. Make the pervos and weirdos opt in instead of the other way around. Will this stifle free speech? Yes, it will. Boo hoo for you if you have to go through the rigamarole of opting in to get your online porn, loser. My amount sympathy for your cause is the exact same size as your penis: Microscopic.

Is this because the UK is a Muslim country now ?

Not yet, if it was a Muslim country they would ban porn out right.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Because everyone isn't going to permanently download 50 Gigs of porn in light of this edict.

 

[Seawytch]

Are you suggesting that "pornography" (whatever the official definition of that turns out to be) be a controlled substance now? What's next on the soft censorship list lingerie catalogs?

Pornography already is a controlled product. You can't buy it off a magazine rack. You can't open a "sex shop" within a certain distance from a school (but fertilizer plants are okay) and you can't get a video off the shelf, you have to go into an "18 over" room to view it.

It's only on the Internet you can get free, unrestricted access to porn.

 

[Flopper]

BBC News - Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.

In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line with Scotland.
=================================================


This is government action at its best. Make the pervos and weirdos opt in instead of the other way around. Will this stifle free speech? Yes, it will. Boo hoo for you if you have to go through the rigamarole of opting in to get your online porn, loser. My amount sympathy for your cause is the exact same size as your penis: Microscopic.

Such a ban would be almost impossible to enforce without government control of the internet.