Online porn blocking

Quote by GnV
I understand what you are saying R_T but I can also see Jed's point.
Why should someone have to phone up their IP to announce that they are 'perverts' or 'sexual devients' and ask for the denied access to be switched on?
Is that information then passed on in good old 'joined up Government' fashion to someone who monitors paedophiles etc and you are then placed on a secret 'not yet convicted but a likely possibility' potential sex offender's register?

Quote by sandybeach1
Thing is even if you don't actively look for porn it somehow pops up along with some of the most innocent of words you can type into a search engine, I once typed in leather collars as I was looking for a training lead for my new GSD and all sorts of interesting things popped up hwoar:
I suppose kids get to a certain age where they will actively seek porn through sheer curiosity, but I can definitely understand why parents of anyone under the age of say 14 would want search engines to be "policed" and be able to let their younger kids use the internet freely.
Myself I like to watch it now and again but not sure I would like the world to know

Quote by Too Hot
Bit of over blown panic here me thinks...
As has already been noted, mobile phone companies prevent you accessing adult sites by default. All you have to do is give them a call and ask to remove the adult content restriction.
In my opinion, it is absolutely a step in the right direction and I can remember in the early days of Internet when my then young daughter searched "Spice Girls," I was horrified as I sat next to her at the images that popped up. Not welcome, not asked for and highly inappropriate in the circumstances. As a parent, I would rather know that a child making such a search is not going to become prematurely corrupted.

Quote by MidsCouple24
Bit of over blown panic here me thinks...
As has already been noted, mobile phone companies prevent you accessing adult sites by default. All you have to do is give them a call and ask to remove the adult content restriction.
In my opinion, it is absolutely a step in the right direction and I can remember in the early days of Internet when my then young daughter searched "Spice Girls," I was horrified as I sat next to her at the images that popped up. Not welcome, not asked for and highly inappropriate in the circumstances. As a parent, I would rather know that a child making such a search is not going to become prematurely corrupted.

Quote by Too Hot
Bit of over blown panic here me thinks...
As has already been noted, mobile phone companies prevent you accessing adult sites by default. All you have to do is give them a call and ask to remove the adult content restriction.
In my opinion, it is absolutely a step in the right direction and I can remember in the early days of Internet when my then young daughter searched "Spice Girls," I was horrified as I sat next to her at the images that popped up. Not welcome, not asked for and highly inappropriate in the circumstances. As a parent, I would rather know that a child making such a search is not going to become prematurely corrupted.

Had you been someone else, someone who I was not familiar with by way of the forums I would have accused you of being naïve and irresponsible, but knowing you through the forums I did not believe that to be the case which is why I worded it as I did, you did not mention the timescale of when you did the search and with that timescale I would agree with you that knowledge of the dangers has changed just as the naivety has gone from such things as it has for the amount of paedophiles that infiltrated organisations that cared for children such as Barnardos, the BBC (Saville) the Scout Movement, the church etc, and this is understandable, but should not therefore the Government be concentrating on educating parents in child safety online as much as they do child safety on the roads ? should not PCs have all the locks set when sold for a parent to have to switch off rather than switch on, as people have said, it is done with phones before we buy them. The act of switching off safety features should include warnings of what may happen.
I would apologise but without that important timescale omission my assumption had reason.
with the inclusion of the timescale I believe you to be exonerated

Quote by MidsCouple24
Bit of over blown panic here me thinks...
As has already been noted, mobile phone companies prevent you accessing adult sites by default. All you have to do is give them a call and ask to remove the adult content restriction.
In my opinion, it is absolutely a step in the right direction and I can remember in the early days of Internet when my then young daughter searched "Spice Girls," I was horrified as I sat next to her at the images that popped up. Not welcome, not asked for and highly inappropriate in the circumstances. As a parent, I would rather know that a child making such a search is not going to become prematurely corrupted.

Had you been someone else, someone who I was not familiar with by way of the forums I would have accused you of being naïve and irresponsible, but knowing you through the forums I did not believe that to be the case which is why I worded it as I did, you did not mention the timescale of when you did the search and with that timescale I would agree with you that knowledge of the dangers has changed just as the naivety has gone from such things as it has for the amount of paedophiles that infiltrated organisations that cared for children such as Barnardos, the BBC (Saville) the Scout Movement, the church etc, and this is understandable, but should not therefore the Government be concentrating on educating parents in child safety online as much as they do child safety on the roads ? should not PCs have all the locks set when sold for a parent to have to switch off rather than switch on, as people have said, it is done with phones before we buy them. The act of switching off safety features should include warnings of what may happen.
I would apologise but without that important timescale omission my assumption had reason.
with the inclusion of the timescale I believe you to be exonerated