Internet Porn Blocked In UK Along With Violence, Alcohol And Terrorism To Protect Youth

The UK is blocking pornography and other "adult subjects" on the internet, including violence, alcohol and terrorism. UK's Prime Minister David Cameron announced that internet porn will now be blocked in order to "protect children and their innocence. The "Porn Filter" will be implemented with the assistance of UK's major internet service providers, which according to Huffington Post encompass 95 percent of British web users. User will have to choose to "opt-in" with a new ISP, if they do not want to be affected by the filter.

The filter will be established before the end of 2013. Cameron also stated that some "horrific" Internet search terms are not blacklisted. ISPreview provided a list of the upcoming changes via the filter.

Adult content filters to be enabled on all new mobile phones (this already happens for most people).

Adult content banned from public Wi-Fi services (some public hotspot operators already do this).

It will be a criminal offence to possess pornography that depicts rape.

Videos streamed online in the UK will be subject to the same restrictions asDVDs and BluRayssold in shops.

Google, Bing and other major internet search engines will have to block any results/sites and specific search terms blacklisted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (i.e. this mostly relates to child abuse content). It should be said that Google and the like already remove related sites once they've been notified.

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) will also gain new powers to examine P2P (internet file sharing) networks for child abuse content and to hopefully help trace their users (working alongside the police).

People whom attempt to access websites that contain child abuse content will also be met by a strict warning about the risks of doing so.

The country's largest broadband ISPs (BT, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk and Virgin Media) will all need to enable automatic network-level filtering of adult websites (i.e. Active Choice+), although you will be given a choice to opt-out (though the opt-in "Yes" box will stay pre-ticked if you ignore it).

According to a report by the digital advocacy organization Open Rights Group, the new filters will be controlling much more information other than just Internet pornography. By default, the amped up "parental controls" will block access to "violent material," "extremist and terrorist related content," "anorexia and eating disorder websites," and "suicide-related websites."