I had already checked Hubski on O2. http://urlchecker.o2.co.uk/urlcheck.aspx Parental Control (opt in u12 service): Blocked I clicked the link saying the policy should be different. No idea what that would result in.
You've clearly created a sanctuary for pornographic material and other non state-endorsed material that must be blocked for the good of the children. As veen pointed out, everything about this program is wrong, and yet it still passed.
Warning/Disclaimer - Dystopian ranting to follow. Ok, so both Orwell's future and Huxley's future are coming to pass, Big Brother sees all and we're happy for it because we're so well sedated. (The U.S. has the best soma, chemical and social we've ever seen, never has a population with access to so much done so little) Anyone who tries to expose the abuses of power by their own government is labeled a terrorist and cannot stay safely in the U.S. or in fact, cannot stay safely ANYWHERE. There is nothing standing between your average citizen of the planet and a jail cell, or a drone-launched hellfire missle, except for the whims of a few massively powerful persons who are not elected officials, but installed bureaucratic kings and corporate entities that are actually larger than world governements. What do we do about it? What can your average person in the developed world (U.S., Canada, most of Europe, parts of Asia and the Middle East) do to stop the steel walls of oppression from slamming down on democracy and self-determination? Can we do anything about it? If an open, armed rebellion became the last hope of democracy, would the populace of the 'Developed' world have the stomach for it?
You beat me to posting this. Holy shit. Who ever thought this was a good idea? Gah.Their 'parental control' settings can be blocked from accessing Childline, Refuge, Stonewall or the Samaritans – which is even more frightening when you realise that they could just as easily be switched on by an abusive partner. The most vulnerable people in society are the most likely to be cut off from the help they need.
This whole filter ordeal enrages me to no end. Based on the flimsiest of arguments, they've installed a cluttered, totalitarian force of power to put the flow of information in the hands of mismanaged officials. It's wrong on every level, yet it is now here. Wrong sites being blocked is inherent to the system, not something that can be easily fixed. It is highly subjective what sites are 'appropriate' and what aren't. And above all, it shouldn't be on by default but off by default! I'll be punching sandbags with rage if you need me.
I don't understand. Is this a set of filters that parents can choose to use to block various parts of the internet from their children? Or is this a set of filters that the government is enforcing across the nation on the internet as a whole? I at first thought it was the latter, now it seems like the former.
I wish it were possible to vote out the government. They're the biggest bunch of corrupt, insane, self-serving scum I have seen since the last government. The fact that the UK has to endure two more years of them before the next general election is horrifying.
Two more years? Try infinity more years. We're just now in the US (some of us) that the Dems and Repub's are just alternating legs of the same damn machine. Obama has proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there is no such thing as Right or Left in the US, there is just the Machine.
Well, in the US, it's more than that, we have extremist far-right, and then we have slightly less right that call themselves left. We're in an extremely conservative country, sadly. How hard it's hit the younger generation has bred a lot of socialists and far-left idealists though, so perhaps there is hope.
Well that's why I said "since the last government". 'New Labour' has effectively been the British Democratic Party (with a few policy exceptions) for the last decade... The decision in 1997 to shift the party to the right won them a landslide election and they have been almost silent in voicing their opposition to the Conservative party's policies. If it can happen in the USA it can happen here.