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Ministers want to name and shame ISPs
THE UK government has decided to publish league tables naming and shaming internet service providers don't take down offensive material fast enough.
Culture minister, Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey, have decided that if an ISP does not delete violent or sexually explicit web content they must be shamed into doing so.
Follett wants to see the pre-screening of material on sites such as Youtube, as occurs at present on Myspace.
Her view is that there is too much 'chaos' on the internet and 'order' needs to be bought to it with lots of good wholesome Victorian-based morals. After all, children did so well in Victorian Britain.
Follett said that there was difficulties in preventing children from accessing over-age material and that much of the work needs to be done to educate children of the dangers of the internet. After all successive governments were extremely good at making sure that people were scared of lots of things they weren't frightened off 20 years ago.
She said that it was sad to make children more scared than interested, but fortunately the internet is so interesting that children tend to overcome their fear. Fear is a gift all parents should give their children.
Follett added that the take-down times and levels of search need to be much clearer.
ISPs needed to come forward and show that they are the sort of responsible organisations whose services we can trust to our children.
Her latest cunning plan is a form of age identity card for the internet which might be handy when it comes to buying video games and other material on the Web.
You can start to see where all this is going. ยต
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Save the children - and the next day the government cuts funding for education. Sick culture.
Where do they get this idea that children are harmed by accidentally seeing sexually explicit material? Do they think an infant has never seen a breast?

First, children have no libido. They don't go seeking this stuff like I^H men do. (Unless it's to giggle at it.)

Second, anyone claiming that seeing this harms children should be told to put up proof or SHUT UP. Same with the anti-violence crowd. 

These people would probably be pretty annoyed if they were publicly asked for proof every time they brought up their bogus arguments.

Surely if we are trying to protect children from seeing things they shouldn't then parents should be putting software in place to filter out this sort of content? I make sure my daughter can't visit any nasty sites but I wouldn't want to stop others from searching for the content they want. I don't have that right and neither should anyone else. If someone tried telling me what I could and couldn't look at I would be most annoyed!