Sky broadband will automatically block porn by default as of next year

[FatLazyContractor]

To keep anyone from searching from Porn in our house i keep a photo of Brillos 1st wife next to the monitor. That's enough to put most people off their stroke

Is your wife bi-sexual?

[SueEllen]

Is your wife bi-sexual?

She's MF's wife....

[MarillionFan]

Is your wife bi-sexual?

No such thing as bi-sexuality. Just another word for being greedy.

[BrilloPad]

She's MF's wife....

She had better brace herself for being covered in clotted cream and cider.

[NickFitz]

Something to do with this story from last week? Porn filters not widely used in UK says Ofcom - BBC News

I recall Hamface making a big thing about requiring ISPs to provide opt-out porn filters, claiming that he was single-handedly rescuing family values in the UK from a tsunami of filth, or some such nonsense. Now it turns out the measure was pretty much a waste of time and money.

Quite a lucky coincidence that, less than a week later, Sky Broadband have come out with an announcement that vaguely suggests the policy still has value

[VectraMan]

And just in time the IETF have come up with a new 451 HTTP censorship code:

New HTTP error code 451 to signal censorship • The Register

[xoggoth]

UK gets more idiotically prudish every year. More emphasis on blocking violence and extremism is what we really need.

[VectraMan]

UK gets more idiotically prudish every year. More emphasis on blocking violence and extremism is what we really need.

Schools told to monitor pupils' web use to prevent radicalisation

Fortunately kids only have access to the internet in schools.

[FatLazyContractor]

Porn is for losers.

People who live in reality deal with hookers

[d000hg]

Won't it just be an online thing you can turn off, rather than having to phone up?

They might lose some customers but they might also gain a lot of new ones if they're seen as "anti-porn" from the conservative/religious/parent demographics.