Due to research/love/nudity being a sort of anathema, it labels people who want access to content as simple as web forums or "esoteric content" as perverts, which is embarrassing. Not to mention, Cameron could easily pull the "i'm not making it a choice anymore; always on" very easily, under the guise of protecting the children. It'd be much easier for him to censor the internet fully were his plans to be enacted. His plan is filled with small steps, with the final goal being to have full control over the internet in all the UK.
This. The Internet Service Providers will have a master "pervert list" and if you ever look up anything on that list, they could easily sell the information to private corporations who will use it as a reason to not hire you. That's not to say that they will, but they easily could. Want to access your favorite web forum? You're not being hired because you unblocked the filter which means you must look at PR0N AL DAIII!!!1!one!!eleven!
Too bad parents of today doesn't know how Parental Control works on computers and instead gives their 9 year olds a loving iPhone and Call of Duty.
It really is the future!
Yeah, nowadays I see five-year-olds richarding around on bloody brutal cell phone games. I mean, seriously, people? Epic failure.
Dooble, I worry that a few of these things will be far too easy to wrongfully flag.
It is blocking "extremist related content".
These are terrorist linked websites that display all sorts of information, from making bombs to planting them in busy city locations.
It is this sort of thing that the Police and Government spend millions of pounds and hours a year trying to take down.
It is these sorts of things that cause such incidents like the tragic death of Drummer Lee Rigby earlier this year, and the Boston Bombings.
But who is to decide what's "extremist" and what isn't? And how is it to be decided?
It is blocking "web forums".
I can't say what sort of web forums it blocks, if it's all of them.
But think how many there are out there that are entirely unfit for any child to visit.
Places where all of the above are expressed in large amounts.
Even places like here, which are exceedingly tame and fit within the confines of most laws, are incredibly vulgar and rude, and not at all safe for young children.
Blocking the dangerous ones is good.
The issue here is not so much with young children, but with overprotective parents in all the wrong places. Parents will refuse to lift the block for their teen son because he wants to look at his old forums, because obviously he really only wants to look at research
Long story short, my main issue with a system like this would be the potential for misuse and abuse. Parents will, as they often do, "stick with the default". They won't remove the restrictions on young teens who want to go on these sorts of forums because "if we unblock (whatever you want to look at, i.e. the forums) we have to unblock research and you're going to look at it".
Seriously. That's the actual argument my parents gave me when I wanted them to lift their damn web filter (which, incidentally, fires off false positives almost constantly).
Furthermore, if the internet service providers ever sell or make public their "master list of who has the filter off" it'll be a huge issue with employment as mentioned above.
