Porn Ban ?

[EDDIE51]

When the proposed ban on 'porn' on the internet comes in how will they decide what is 'porn' and what is art or erotica , is there even a difference ?
Someone is going to have to decide on a definition of pornography and implement it.
What do AB ers consider is acceptable and what is not ?
Nude pictures ?
Stuff like 59 shades of grey?
Photos/ videos of people having sex or masterbating ?
Questions about what is normal and what is not in sexual matters?
Also how will this work ? what is to stop someone logging on to a site based in another country, Japan for example where I hear you can buy Pornography from vending machines in the street.

[albaqwerty]

Interesting question to which I don't have an answer.

All I've heard from Cameron and Co, is, 'we can't name the words on TV' etc.
Images of rape are supposed to be a no-no (quite rightly) but if those images are 2 consenting adults having fun and belong in a club where they all share picies, it shouldn't be accessed by those who aren't in the club.

However, if anything is on the internet, it can be found.

[pixie373]

I thought it was just certain combinations of words that would be unsuccessful in a search -such as images of child abuse. I didn't realise it was a blanket ban.

[jim360]

Good old rule 34... I can imagine the scene now.

Dave: "Ha! That'll teach all those perverts to look at porn on the internet!"
SamCam: "Yes, you want to keep it all to yourself, you naughty boy!"
Dave: "Well, why did you think I joined the Tory party! I did always want to star in a 'blue' movie..."
SamCam: "Oh, you make me laugh! Now come here... *censored*"

[DJHawkes]

I would have thought that it would be done the other way around and there would be a filter in place to stop the upload of images/content.

[2sp_]

My personal definition of porn is any "adult" activity involving consenting adults, viewed by other consenting adults. This would cover things that I don't find "normal" but others do. (For reasons of decency and not wanting a suspension, I'll not elaborate!)

Anything involving children, animals or non-consenting adults (either real or fake) should be termed as images of child/animal/adult sexual abuse.

[pixie373]

Makes perfect sense, dotty. So perhaps unlikely a politician will think of it

[2sp_]

Great idea Dotty.

Be much easier to stop these things ever getting on the web in the first place. Even better if we could stop them altogether, but I'll be long dead and buried before someone can solve that problem.

[jake-the-peg]

It's not as difficult as you might think.

Currently Adult sites have HTTP headers that indicate whether their content is adult rated.

There is generally very high compliance with this because the 'Adult Entertainment' industry is very very lucrative and they don't want blanket legislation.

It's this high business profitabllity that mekes me think this won't happen.

We've already seen U turns to business interests on cigarette packaging and minimum price alcohol.


I suspect what DC has forgotten in his haste is that many of the media Barrons that support him so strongly have discrete or not-so-discrete Adult Empires.


I can't wait to see the reaction on "Dirty-Reader's-Wive's-Desmond's" Daily Express and Channel 5!

[2sp_]

I think we need to start thinking of porn and images of abuse as two very different subjects.

[emmie]

child porn is not right, acceptable,

[VHG]

It is not a proposed ban on porn. That would be very difficult to enforce and control (and is not illegal in some countries anyway).

The plan is for search engines like Google to refuse to return any "hits" when the search is based on a dubious search terms like say "photos of under age sex" or whatever.

And it is related to pictures etc. of child pornography only, not pornography in general.

[2sp_]

Please stop using the phrase "child porn".

They are images of child abuse.

[VHG]

>>>Currently Adult sites have HTTP headers that indicate whether their content is adult rated.

But I doubt this is the case with some of the "unofficial" sites which host dubious porn.

I would imagine these sites like to keep themselves as "hidden" as possible on the web.

[Just-Jude]

Computer says no!

[AB Editor]

"I would have thought that it would be done the other way around and there would be a filter in place to stop the upload of images/content."

How do you think that might work? A government contractor would have to look at your AB posts before you upload them... might have a small delaying effect....

[emmie]

between people who are interested in it, for want of better words, its child abuse, pornography, sexual images of children. Vile no matter want some want to call it

[2sp_]

You mean that you don't work for MI5, Ed?

[Alston]

I heard someone say this morning on the radio that the people who will find a way of downloading 'Filtered' material will be the Kids who are more knowledgeable on Technology than their parents.

Al.

[ummmm]

Wouldn't surprise me, Al...

[AB Editor]

"I heard someone say this morning on the radio that the people who will find a way of downloading 'Filtered' material will be the Kids who are more knowledgeable on Technology than their parents."

That is what this is about - it's meant to absolve parents of the responsibility of looking after their children.

A bit like the way discipline is the problem of the school, and not the parent.