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UK to block all online **** by default later this year
Prime Minister David Cameron to unveil bold and controversial plan in a speech Monday
British Prime Minister David Cameron today will announce an aggressive plan to crack down on online pornography, as part of an ongoing campaign to protect children from its "corroding" influence. Under Cameron's plan, online **** will be blocked by default for all new UK household internet connections, meaning consumers will have to tell their internet service providers (ISPs) whether they want to disable the filters. The plan will also make it a crime to possess "extreme pornography," such as images or video of simulated rape, the Daily Mail reports.
"By the end of this year, when someone sets up a new broadband account the settings to install family-friendly filters will be automatically selected," Cameron will say in a speech to the child protection group NSPCC on Monday. "If you just click 'next' or 'enter', then the filters are automatically on."
Cameron is taking aim at violent and illegal child pornography, in particular, and will call upon major search engines to do their part to prevent "sick" people from accessing such content. Under the initiative, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will draft a blacklist of objectionable search terms, while a UK-US joint task force will be established to help combat obscene websites.
"I have a very clear message for Google, Bing, Yahoo and the rest," Cameron will say. "You have a duty to act on this — and it is a moral duty. If there are technical obstacles to acting on [search engines], don't just stand by and say nothing can be done; use your great brains to help overcome them."
The prime minister will meet with leading search engines in October to discuss their progress in blocking all terms included on CEOP's blacklist. "If the progress is slow or non-existent," Cameron says, "then I can tell you we are already looking at the legislative options we have to force action."
Full article: UK to block all online **** by default later this year | The Verge
Prime Minister David Cameron to unveil bold and controversial plan in a speech Monday
British Prime Minister David Cameron today will announce an aggressive plan to crack down on online pornography, as part of an ongoing campaign to protect children from its "corroding" influence. Under Cameron's plan, online **** will be blocked by default for all new UK household internet connections, meaning consumers will have to tell their internet service providers (ISPs) whether they want to disable the filters. The plan will also make it a crime to possess "extreme pornography," such as images or video of simulated rape, the Daily Mail reports.
"By the end of this year, when someone sets up a new broadband account the settings to install family-friendly filters will be automatically selected," Cameron will say in a speech to the child protection group NSPCC on Monday. "If you just click 'next' or 'enter', then the filters are automatically on."
Cameron is taking aim at violent and illegal child pornography, in particular, and will call upon major search engines to do their part to prevent "sick" people from accessing such content. Under the initiative, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will draft a blacklist of objectionable search terms, while a UK-US joint task force will be established to help combat obscene websites.
"I have a very clear message for Google, Bing, Yahoo and the rest," Cameron will say. "You have a duty to act on this — and it is a moral duty. If there are technical obstacles to acting on [search engines], don't just stand by and say nothing can be done; use your great brains to help overcome them."
The prime minister will meet with leading search engines in October to discuss their progress in blocking all terms included on CEOP's blacklist. "If the progress is slow or non-existent," Cameron says, "then I can tell you we are already looking at the legislative options we have to force action."
Full article: UK to block all online **** by default later this year | The Verge
