Internet Porn Filters Backed By Conservatives

One man's "porn" in another man's freedom.

Conservative Internet Porn Filters

• The British Conservative Party is on a rampage to tighten Big Brother's grip on the free flow of Internet information and images with special "filters" under the control of government.
• Adults are to be treated like children as the parent (government) decides for them what photos or words they will be allowed to see.
• Using "think of the children" is a convenient way to block a lot of content the British government doesn't want its citizens to see, with no public consultation whatsoever.

British Liberal Democrats have triggered fury by vowing to overturn David Cameron’s plans for Internet porn filters.

Child safety experts and MPs called the move ‘irresponsible’ and warned it would undermine attempts to "protect" children from hardcore pornography.

Lib Dem party president Tim Farron said the Government should enshrine the ‘digital rights of the citizen’ and halt requirement for ‘filters, lists or controls on legal material’ reports the UK Daily Mail.

Farron said filters were ‘misconceived, ineffective and illiberal’. A motion set to be adopted at the party’s spring conference will say ‘families and individuals should decide how they wish to use them’.

He warned ‘essential sites’ on sex education and gay rights were being blocked, while porn was slipping through filters.

‘Our motion is designed to strengthen Lib Dem ministers’ hands in challenging this nonsensical policy, which has yet to be brought before the House of Commons,’ he said.

Conservative MP Julian Smith said: ‘Tim Farron is clearly putting his Lib Dem leadership ambitions ahead of our children’s protection. (The usual "Think of the children" bullshit.)

Helen Goodman, Labour’s media spokesman, said: ‘It’s typically irresponsible of the Liberal Democrats to oppose this protection.

Labour has pledged to bring in mandatory filters if the coalition’s voluntary approach is found to have failed.

The government's filter, which comes into full effect this month after a year of lobbying, will block far more than dirty pictures. That was always the intention, and in recent weeks it has become clear that the mission creep of Internet censorship is even creepier than campaigners had feared.

In the name of protecting children from a rotten tide of raunchy videos, a terrifying precedent is being set for state control of the digital commons says the UK Guardian.
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One of Britain's biggest Internet providers, claimed that the Internet has no "social or moral framework". Well, neither does a library. Nobody would dream of insisting a local book exchange deployed morality robots to protect children from discovering something their parents might not want them to see. Online, that's just what's happening, except that in this case, every person who uses the Internet is being treated like a child.

Cameron's porn filter looks less like an attempt to protect kids than a convenient way to block a lot of content the British government doesn't want its citizens to see, with no public consultation whatsoever.
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Frightened of Freedom

A British Big Brother is to control what Internet 

images and words you will be allowed to look at.