In order to (supposedly) protect women and children, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is going to announce a set of measures designed to curb Brits’ appetite for porn. Sometime around the end of this year, those living in the British Isles will have to let their Internet providers know if they want access to porn, and by the end of next year, it’ll be against the law to have “violent” porn.
The “moves” being enacted will include the following:
- Every household in the U.K. will have its access to porn blocked by default. People will have to ask their ISP provider to opt out of this block.
- “Extreme” pornography which involves violent scenes or simulated rape is going to be outlawed.
- An organization called Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre Internet will come up with a set of search terms in relation child abuse/child porn that will then be blocked
“I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence,” reads Cameron’s expected speech today, which primarily will focus on children.
