Government drops ‘porn block’ plan to stop children watching sex videos online

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The long-delayed measure – one of the first of its kind in any democratic country – had been plagued by legal and technical difficulties

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Why

Thats that we should gayher our strength and will to omit this tyrany from our world.

I guess parents will have, to parent

I believe the block should be in place.

Are they now going to bring forward a Parental Responsibility bill? Perish the thought.

Private school kids do get VERY long holidays...

What

Good! They'll probably come up with another method in future, but it's good to know that 1) someone is listening and 2) know that it would be a very unpopular policy to implement and could potentially open the Pandora's Box to enable MORE censorship.

Way too late for that. The cat's been out of the bag for a while now...perhaps to the point of no return.

It was always going to fail as anyone with the remotest knowledge of the Internet could tell. Even 10 year olds knew how to get round it in my neighbours sons school

Why are we surprised by this? It's not as if the Government has anyone's best interest at heart at present is it, least of all children! StopTheWorld

‘Porn block’ it all. Porn is a documented hate crime towards women. abolitionistrising Thorn TraffickCam PulltheShade3

good if this bill would have passed it would have led to an increase of sexual asslauts in schools

I would be happy if fb blocked friend requests by innocent looking profiles but 'for my sex pics' WTC and ii is happening here on twitter.

Parenting might help

Probably realised it was pointless. Wonder how much resources were wasted on this policy.

'Government realizes how powerless they are against technology'.

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