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Are there any members on here that live in Britain right now? I have a bit of a question for you guys.

While everyone was talking about the newly-born baby of the royal family, Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to pass a law that will block pornagraphic sites on the internet. His reasoning behind this is to protect children and their innocence. Access on computers will be blocked by default and the only way to get around it is to called the internet provider to have it unblocked. It has been revealed afterwards that porn won't be the only thing blocked.

Based on conversations with several ISPs, Open Rights Group says the new "parental controls" will reach far beyond pornography. By default, the controls will block access to "violent material," "extremist and terrorist related content," "anorexia and eating disorder websites," and "suicide related websites."

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I for one think that this is an incredibly stupid idea. Why can't we just get parents to teach their children about the internet? If that doesn't work, there are downloadable site blockers that do the trick. There's no need to inflict it on EVERYONE. I don't think I have to explain why the latter part about blocking other content is bad as well, that speaks for itself.

Here's a link to an article about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/uk-internet-filter-block-more-than-porn_n_3670771.html

So what are your thoughts on this?