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[Amber Avenger]

I imagine ringing up to get access to these sites would be a lot similar to that scene in Alan Partridge gets the guy in the hotel to get the naughty channels back on his tv.

[Johnoco]

Whilst I agree overall, I think you overestimate hom savvy people are with the internet. Most would have to ask their 10-year-old to install the protection program for them.

Yeah, I imagine that in the vast majority of households, the children are more IT savvy than their parents and could quite easily find a way to baffle a less than up to speed parent. Parents are not sat with their children 24/7 and there will be occasions where stuff will occur that they would not want to, this being possibly one of them.

Wolford, I disagree. We aren't talking about lads sneaking a peek at a pair of boobs here but young people being exposed to hard porn at a young age that could alter their whole thinking about sex and possibly their attitude to the other sex completely. I genuinely think this sort of thing could lead to sexual deviancy (not in a harmless way) and is in need of looking at.

[Futtocks]

I'd imagine that, for a teenager denied access to porn sites, the first site they'd access would be one with instructions on how to bypass NetNanny without triggering an alert.

[Alfies Thumb]

They've been wanting to implement this here in Australia for about 18 months now and the push is coming from the conservative Christian lobby led by a very clueless senator. It keeps hitting hurdles though mainly because of the cost of implementing it and the fact that it would reduce our internet speeds which are 3rd world as it is.

The argument for stopping kiddie porn on the internet is a bit see-through. You simply can't access that stuff by typing it into google which is something the lobby just don't understand. Fingers crossed it doesn't get in here in Australia and likewise for the UK.

[Millman]

Imagine how much more time Wendall could spend on here if this law came in.

[Johnoco]

The argument for stopping kiddie porn on the internet is a bit see-through. You simply can't access that stuff by typing it into google which is something the lobby just don't understand. Fingers crossed it doesn't get in here in Australia and likewise for the UK.

Kiddie porn? I don't know if something has been lost in translation but that's not what the subject is.

And what do you mean about google? You can easily access porn via google.

[Severus]

Whilst I agree overall, I think you overestimate hom savvy people are with the internet. Most would have to ask their 10-year-old to install the protection program for them.

That's true. IMO some people treat the internet as if it is harmless. You wouldn't venture out in a city without being a little street wise and the same thing applies to the web.

My father is an interesting one, said he will never buy anything online for fear of someone hacking his account (he reads the Daily Fail) but clicks on every flipping link for programs that claim to make your machine run faster or remove spyware. Muggings here has to go down every so often and sort it out (i.e., format and reinstall). He has got better though, I've shown him where the 'My Documents' folder is so he is no longer saving everything to c:\. He is an intelligent man but just doesn't seem to learn.

[Saint Rich]

Whilst I agree overall, I think you overestimate hom savvy people are with the internet. Most would have to ask their 10-year-old to install the protection program for them.

Easily worked around by putting the computer in the lounge.

[Johnoco]

Easily worked around by putting the computer in the lounge.

Because we have only one way of accesing the internet today?

[bowes]

That's true. IMO some people treat the internet as if it is harmless. You wouldn't venture out in a city without being a little street wise and the same thing applies to the web.

My father is an interesting one, said he will never buy anything online for fear of someone hacking his account (he reads the Daily Fail) but clicks on every flipping link for programs that claim to make your machine run faster or remove spyware. Muggings here has to go down every so often and sort it out (i.e., format and reinstall). He has got better though, I've shown him where the 'My Documents' folder is so he is no longer saving everything to c:\. He is an intelligent man but just doesn't seem to learn.

I know someone that's the opposite, he refuses to have the Internet because he thinks it's all porn. He even got his phone in a ridiculously primitive form where the screen is like a calculator and only shows one line of text just to avoid having the Internet on it

[guess who]

I'd be gutted

Thanks Lee.

I just spat my coffee all over the screen.

Edited by guess who, 26 December 2010 - 10:08 AM.

[Maximus Decimus]

Thanks Lee.

I just spat my coffee all over the screen.

As long as that's all you did...

[Hornetto]

... it's specifically aimed at children "accidentally" accessing pornography

I've accessed pornography accidentally a few times. It is surprisingly easy.