MP says its ISPs fault children can access porn

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/13-year-old-schoolboy-raped-sister-8-3114189

 

Horrible article, but what caught my eye was what they were saying about service providers and how its their fault children have access to porn, ridiculous.

[MegaDave91]

Very simply the parent's fault, and they should take full responsibility for it as well.

[Jaybird]

its the parents fault. its kinda like buying showtime. sure you get movies but sometimes they are pornos. if you dont want it. dont buy it. 

[bob345]

well that was a hard article to read. I honestly think that it is the parents responsibility and not the isp's. It is up to the parents to put up filters so their kids cant get to stuff like that.

[qwertywarrior]

basically what im looking at here is that

parents are stupid we need to take a small role in their development

[MatheusSanzo]

And surely it's gun makers' fault what people do with their products.

[shizngiggles]

100% parents fault. The ISPs are not responsible for what sites you or any of your other family members visit. Are they then going to blame the ISP for their kid visiting a malicious site and downloading a virus? It's absurd. You have a job as a parent to be wary of what your children do on the computer, no lack of computer skills/knowledge can justify not setting up parental controls on your computer. Use the wonderful thing known as the internet and find a way of blocking traffic to pornographic sites, it's not that difficult.

[Osmium]

And surely it's gun makers' fault what people do with their products.

 

Damn that Al Gore. Why did he have to invent the internet and Global Warming. Just think of all those walrus that would still be alive today!

[Murdoch]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/13-year-old-schoolboy-raped-sister-8-3114189

 

Horrible article, but what caught my eye was what they were saying about service providers and how its their fault children have access to porn, ridiculous.

 

In fairness, an ISP filter is a level at which parental controls can be easily applied. Obviously young children shouldn't be allowed to watch hardcore pornography. If I had kids, I would closely monitor what they had access to, but it's quite difficult for the non-technically minded to control everything. I bet the parents were quite naive about what could be accessed via the Xbox.

 

Is it a substitute for good parenting, no ofc not. But I actually think an ISP filter is nothing to be concerned about. So long as it is used for it's intended purpose.

 

P.S. I almost never agree with Conservative policies.

[Flyguygamer]

This is the parents fault. The isp should no more be blamed for porn than video games should be blamed for murders or Muslims should be blamed for terrorist attacks. Parents need to be actively involved in what their kids are doing, both on and off the computer or console. The lack of parenting is what is making this generation act the way they do. Just my $0.02

[Nicolas]

well that was a hard article to read. I honestly think that it is the parents responsibility and not the isp's. It is up to the parents to put up filters so their kids cant get to stuff like that.

You are right, but also there is a lot of people out there that don't know about these kinds of filters, so I think it wouldn't hurt for ISPs to offer some service to block inappropriate content

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

A sensationalist topic title made from a sensationalist newspaper.

[Bad2049]

This is exactly why my daughter is on a separate network with filters set on her router. Parents are the ones who should be protecting their children from content of an inappropriate nature.

[shizngiggles]

In fairness, an ISP filter is a level at which parental controls can be easily applied. Obviously young children shouldn't be allowed to watch hardcore pornography. If I had kids, I would closely monitor what they had access to, but it's quite difficult for the non-technically minded to control everything. I bet the parents were quite naive about what could be accessed via the Xbox.

 

Is it a substitute for good parenting, no ofc not. But I actually thing an ISP filter is nothing to be concerned about. So long as it is used for it's intended purpose.

 

P.S. I almost never agree with Conservative policies.

 

The one solution that I can think of that may help the issue is to allow the ISP to block specific traffic upon request by the customer. I.E. Customer signs up for internet and can request to block all pornographic sites. However, the problem I could possibly see in doing this is that it may end up blocking traffic to legitimate sites that don't have any affiliation to pornographic material, but may have been falsely flagged as a pornographic site.

 

Overall still firmly believe that it's the parents responsibility to control the content their kids have access to and I don't think it should ever be up to the ISP to act as the parent.

[Blue fellow]

Young people will always get porn, the internet just lets them be more selective, instead of just whacking it off to the same issue of Playboy over and over.

[MatheusSanzo]

Young people will always get porn, the internet just lets them be more selective, instead of just whacking it off to the same issue of Playboy over and over.

I found a playboy when i was 9/10 years old.

 

I was a happy boy.

[Erik4boss]

P0rn too good. So fucking easy to watch. Install Inbrowser on your android, head over to pornhub.com and watch. I never do it though. That was a lie.

[Gunjob]

Its the parents fault, the UK is quickly becoming a nanny state, why should my taxes go towards the government so they can use it to be parents to these kids, when they already have parents. What I'm trying to say is DO YOUR JOB FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

[XTankSlayerX]

Blame the government for the peoples stupidity.

 

What has this world come to? :\

[Murdoch]

The one solution that I can think of that may help the issue is to allow the ISP to block specific traffic upon request by the customer. I.E. Customer signs up for internet and can request to block all pornographic sites. However, the problem I could possibly see in doing this is that it may end up blocking traffic to legitimate sites that don't have any affiliation to pornographic material, but may have been falsely flagged as a pornographic site.

 

Overall still firmly believe that it's the parents responsibility to control the content their kids have access to and I don't think it should ever be up to the ISP to act as the parent.

 

That is pretty much what has been recently implemented at an ISP level in the UK. It's opt-in for existing customers, but when you sign up for a new ISP it's opt-out.

 

I agree that it should be the parents responsibility, but clearly not all parents are capable of that. So that's why you have a political movement to make the ISPs filter content. I have no problem with this, provided it's always opt-out and it's not abused to block other content, or used as a political tool to further censoring of the internet.

[shizngiggles]

That is pretty much what has been recently implemented at an ISP level in the UK. It's opt-in for existing customers, but when you sign up for a new ISP it's opt-out.

 

I agree that it should be the parents responsibility, but clearly not all parents are capable of that. So that's why you have a political movement to make the ISPs filter content. I have no problem with this, provided it's always opt-out and it's not abused to block other content, or used as a political tool to further censoring of the internet.

 

Agreed. Keep it an optional solution not a permanent solution.

[Chatzev]

If a kid wants p0rn, let them watch it. Simple. Done.

[Askew]

If a kid wants p0rn, let them watch it. Simple. Done.

 

Congratulations, that's the most stupid comment I've read this week, the rest of the world has only 2 days to outdo you before the weekend lands.

[Camul]

Obviously it's the parent's fault for not properly educating their child about sex. I've had access to porn since the age of 11 and I don't recall ever raping my siblings. Same goes for everyone else I know.

[Askew]

ISP's simply connect you to the web, if I'm not 18 they won't serve me a contract here, so it's down to whichever adult owns the line to regulate the access of children.

 

I wouldn't be concerned about teenagers looking at certain stuff but it's the nature of what's available on the web that brings the need for concern, there's a lot that isn't just sex, far from it in fact.