The issues;
Well the most pressing issue i think above the tone, the intent and every other layer of bullshit is there will be a central authority deciding what is and what isn't "Pornography" online. This basically means there will be someone not only charged with keeping track of the endlessly shifting Internet but they will be adjudicating basically all the information that has ever been created and put online into two piles; "Porn" and "Not Porn".Feasibility;
Keeping track of every website on every country on earth is impossible. This in its self creates two distinct possible problems, both equally worrying;
1. The system will have to rely on websites own labeling system meaning sites wrongly labeled or more likely not labeled at all or trying to prevent harm their traffic by being labeled will simply not be blocked. This makes the system pointless.
2. There will actually be someone going through the Internet tagging it. This is simply impossible and will make the system unworkable. The Internet is big. Bigly big. Vast. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to the Internet.
Both systems fail in actually delivering any kind of result to the given motive. The measure sets out to make it impossible for children to access pornography accidentally or otherwise, it CAN'T deliver this in any way. Therefore its justification is baseless. Putting aside all other issues of centralisation and dangerious superiority complexes this simply won't work. I'll say it again;
THIS WILL NOT WORK... YOU DICKBAG... GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG.
Ethics;
If this system is put in place it will bring censorship under the guise of morality and father knows best. This is what the UK government has been vocally and heavily criticising China, Iran and a whole host of others for for decades. Their justification is also pornography. Its is a mindset that leads to one group deciding what is acceptable for another.
This will not only effect children; No one wants to be seen to "Opt-in" to porn by their partner, it puts moral pressure on these people to accept censorship. Not only that but a system that has a list of issues as vast as the Internet it's self. This is the moral ideals of a minority thrust onto someone else. This is unacceptable.
Fuckwittery;
Nevermind the core issue of defining pornography on something as vast as the internet. Is it simple nudity? No because great works of art would all under it; is it simply eroticism? Well banning everything slightly erotic is just as dangerous as banning all nudity. You CAN'T define it with a system like this. Its not that you just can't define it accurately you simply can't even get close to getting close to the issue. The issues combine here, is it justifiable to attempt censor on this scale when it won't even function at all? Why do it?
And what about Extreme Violence? Will gore and mutilation videos still be acceptable for children? People put executions online will this simply fall under the "A-OK" category? Will pedants turn their own purchased filters off to find the web open to their children in different ways?
As someone who really understands the Internet (hell i practically live here) i implore you, this is a MISTAKE. Its... its beyond stupid. Its beyond unworkable. Its beyond words how wrong you have got this. Its beyond comprehension HOW you could have misunderstood the Internet so badly and so utterly and completely. I... I've run out of words... just stop.
Wellity wellity well well Mr. Cameron. It seems your greater good, "Songs of Praise", father knows best, moral guardian, high church, pious Ass-hat tendencies have caught up with. What became of hip Dave? Hug a hoodie and all that. Hey look at me i have my top button undone I'm just like you! No, I'm going to meet with a political Christian pressure group and morally blackmail you into excepting ultra draconian censoring of the Internet. I think you have have just lose sever generations with this one 'Dave'.
The Dry Facts;
Via The Guardian; Because facts make by dick itchtm"Subscribers to four of the UK's biggest Internet service providers will have to "opt in" if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.
The measures will be unveiled on Tuesday as David Cameron hosts No 10 meeting with the Mothers' Union, a Christian charity. At the government's request the group's chief executive, Reg Bailey, led a review in tandem with Department of Education staff into the commercialisation and sexualisation of children. The Bailey report earlier this year produced a raft of proposals to shield children from sexualised imagery.
The prime minister is expected to announce other moves in line with the review, such as restrictions on aggressive advertising campaigns and certain types of images on billboards.
There will also be a website, Parentport, which parents can use to complain about television programmes, advertisements, products or services which they believe are inappropriate for children.
The site, which will direct complaints to the regulator dealing with that specific area"- I'm sorry Fuck the dry facts! fuck them in their gaping anus! A plague of a thousand raining wet cocks on the dry facts. "Mothers Union", the entire name is a euphemism and emotional blackmail, their a christian pressure group designed to push a Puritan agenda on the masses behind "Won't somebody please think of the children!!". I'm makes me want to puke a fat one, it really does. This is the same shit that we shake out head at the god dammed Tea Party for for fucks sake!