Telcos react coldly to renewed UK.gov smut-censoring push

The MP's knowledge of the internet is about on par with a certain US senator's view of the internet being a series of 'tubes' then.

As for the rest IANAL but wouldn't there be a good chance of any proposed legislation itself being illegal? I seem to recall RIPA being modified to remove the concept of 'implied consent' last year, so anything that forces ISPs to filter content by intercepting and potentially modifying communications would presumably fall foul of that. At least if permission was not sought beforehand FROM BOTH PARTIES (including the owners of the site that are, through their website, communicating with their users).

And any further change to RIPA could well incur the wrath of the EU commission, albeit extremely slowly

But...

..Can't they just put a net over the tube to catch all the bad stuff?

But what about the children's fathers?

Any bloke with a babies and small children in the house will know what I mean. Currently I'm discovering that older children don't go sleep till their parents are too tired to bother so looking at pictures/films of other people shagging is still about the nearest I seem get to it.

Growing up with my parents at it hammer and tongs a couple of rooms away might have made me a bit sensitive though. Still makes me cringe.

Oh dear

I believe the answer is called "good parenting". This half-baked scheme has obviously been thought up by technically clueless politicians and is one step away from the very slippery slope of out-and-out internet censorship.

Don't do that

If you can't ask the public how to regulate communications without breaking the law regarding regulation of communications then you should be in charge of regulations regarding communications

Sorry, everyone

Claire Perry is the MP for my constituency, but not that I voted for her..

"Do you have any children sir?"

None of your fucking business mate!

David Cameron can suck my dick.

and im getting pretty sick of this idea that kids are all so emotionally crippled

that the first dodgy porn site they see is gunna have them tying a noose.

its just not the case.

there are children in countries right now having their faces blown into pieces for the fun and profit of those who like doing that shit. you can see the brain pour out of their skulls in some cases. ive seen that shit online and guess what im not dead (i didnt even cry)... but i do have a mistrust of the government brain blowing out of skull politicians. heeeeey there's a thing. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the government pushing this.

Better approach

It would be far easier if they just made their main DNS servers block this content rather than using DPI thus slowing down traffic in general. Opting out would be as simple as choosing the opt out servers at your ISP or by choosing a 3rd party DNS provider.

The telcos should install the filter

And block the Daily Mail on the grounds that it has an unhealthy obsession with photographs of teenage girls.

Then see how long it is before the Mail changes its tune.

Actually a filter which *only* blocked the Mail would improve the world in so many ways.

'Labour MP Helen Goodman, who is the shadow culture secretary, recently displayed her woefully inadequate knowledge of installing software on a computer, which makes her brain go "bzzzz", apparently.'

Maybe they need to change the batteries on her New Labour era thought-control chip?

I used to work in schools were the kids internet was heavily filtered to stop the 'bad' sites getting though, and i can tell you most kids know how to get around the filtering using proxys, google cache etc so if the kids want to view porn they will do so.

Deja Vu

We only just managed to defeat this nonsense in Australia. It took an organised grass roots campaign lasting several years to finally convince the government that it would cost them too many votes.

Personally I would have thought our PM would have more important things to do. You know, sort out the economy, to tell Herman Van Rompuy to keep his grubby mits off our EU rebate, to tell the French to go ride on a big fat German hairy one, to sort out our looming energy crisis, to eradicate large scale poverty in the UK, to put stop to the UK following the US into their petty little wars around the world, and maybe to start working on the issue of an EU in/out referendum. But no. Dave knows better. He has more important things to do like plan to peddle school data to the highest bidder and to legislate parental tasks. Twat.