Pornography filters used by major internet service providers are blocking websites offering sex education and advice on sexual health and porn addiction, the BBC has learned.
I’m sorry, but was there anyone out there naïve and foolish enough to expect anything else? Because I wasn’t. This isn’t news, this was entirely predictable. It was a matter of “when” not “if”.
And, of course, it is now impossible to find anything on the web pertaining to Scunthorpe…
Almost as bad as trying to find anything useful about the genus Parus
Or for that matter, male birds of any species, which are usually referred to as “cocks”
Indeed.
iDave really is a moron isn’t he? Nobody stumbles across hard core pornography.
I have never accidentally stumbled across hard core porn on the internet, it has always been an entirely deliberate act on my part.
Personally I think it’s a matter of choice, I don’t need to be protected from porn and nor do/ did my children because I was always very careful as to what they used the internet for.
It never ceases to amaze me that we are suppose to “protect” our children from harm but most parents allow their children free and unfettered access to Facebook, which is far more dangerous than porn. Admittedly there is some dreadful porongraphy out there but it is a parents duty to monitor their children and an adults right to choose if they want to indulge in smut and filth.
Not the governments job, and another step down the 1984 route.
XX It never ceases to amaze me that we are suppose to “protect” our children from harm…XX
Similar here.
BUT, if you block their internet use, you are guilty, of “invading their private sphere,” and can get six months to TEN YEARS lie down.
You don’t do it, and they get “injured” from whatever, you can get six monthe to ten years lie down, for “failing in duty of care.”
It’s so predictable, there’s even a name for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
True: after all my years as a techie/geek, I still get people saying “If computers are so smart, why can’t they…?”
I have been trying to tell them for nearly forty years that computers are not smart:- in fact they’re exceedingly dumb. They can only do exactly what they’re told to do by their programmer, and if the programmer ain’t told them correctly, then they won’t perform correctly.
As ever, it’s always the liveware that’s the weak link.
XX I have been trying to tell them for nearly forty years that computers are not smart:- in fact they’re exceedingly dumb. They can only do exactly what they’re told to do by their programmer, XX
You have not met my computer yet, have you?
Its latest trick is to send out three e-mails for every one I post.
RANDOMLY!
Does not matter if the post was in “Incoming”, “Storage” or even the rubbish bin. It just chooses three, and sends them out. SOMETIMES including the one I was actualy meaning to send.
My boss is getting to be quite an expert on my “to do list”, and Auntie Thorruns reindeer recipes, among others.
Well, FT, then there are a few possibilities:
Either there’s a preferences file or other settings file which is corrupt or incorrectly set up or the program itself is corrupt, although the latter is unlikely.
It is possible that some other software on your computer is conflicting with your email.
If your software is Microsoft, then you can’t rule out demonic possession…
”I’m sorry, but was there anyone out there naïve and foolish enough to expect anything else?”
David Cameron?