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

[VectraMan]

Plusnet have a simple online system with a big On-Off switch and different categories to block with a timer so you can still watch porn whilst the kids are at school. Quite good really.

I wonder which category CUK comes under: Hate & Intolerance, or Offensive & Tasteless?

[clearedforlanding]

Nope. They are all covered in black!

You're confusing it with F!

[fullyautomatix]

They compensate. Have you not noticed that nearly every J class seat on Emirates flights to Dubai is occupied by an extremley pretty woman?

Nope. They are all covered in black!

[clearedforlanding]

Virgin broadband also blocks by default to make the connection family friendly.

But you can login to your account and remove that setting quite easily.

In Dubai at the moment and all p0rn is blocked.

They compensate. Have you not noticed that nearly every J class seat on Emirates flights to Dubai is occupied by an extremley pretty woman?

[fullyautomatix]

Virgin broadband also blocks by default to make the connection family friendly.

But you can login to your account and remove that setting quite easily.

In Dubai at the moment and all p0rn is blocked.

[clearedforlanding]

Porn is for losers.

People who live in reality deal with hookers

Amature. I film my encounters with hookers. In the US this keeps me out of the hands of vice police as my activities become legal. Well, apart from the ones with beagles.

[jamesbrown]

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.

Yeah, because those demographics really hate porn. Too much sex, probably.

[NickFitz]

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.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of showing that to have happened with the existing process, and they're not offering any service that isn't available from every ISP in the UK.

[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.

[FatLazyContractor]

Porn is for losers.

People who live in reality deal with hookers

[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.

[xoggoth]

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

[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

[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

[BrilloPad]

She's MF's wife....

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