No more porn by default

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voyds9

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8,488 posts

282 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

Talktalk porn filters are now on by default, Sky to activate soon.

Guess I'll have to ring them to say I'm a normal red blooded male, can I have my porn back please.


shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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voyds9 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

Talktalk porn filters are now on by default, Sky to activate soon.

Guess I'll have to ring them to say I'm a normal red blooded male, can I have my porn back please.
Apparently its a simple checkbox on-screen, no contact required.

However I do find it wrong that we have to opt out rather than in.

Its like the account personnel will make some sort of pre-conceived judgement about me once they've seen I've opted out.

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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shakotan said:
Apparently its a simple checkbox on-screen, no contact required.
Thank balls, don't these people know some of us have our Sky contracts in our Wife's name!



Nick Grant

5,409 posts

234 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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If you don't turn it off you'll find it blocks a lot more than just porn.

Dr Murdoch

3,427 posts

134 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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P-Jay said:
Thank balls, don't these people know some of us have our Sky contracts in our Wife's name!
Cheers for the heads up (so to speak)

All future all internet connections will be set up by me, in my name phone

pherlopolus

2,087 posts

157 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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or you could just use Tor Browser?

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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P-Jay said:
Thank balls, don't these people know some of us have our Sky contracts in our Wife's name!
Or parents!

FourWheelDrift

88,377 posts

283 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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pherlopolus said:
or you could just use Tor Browser?
Or Opera on turbo mode, uses a non-UK proxy server.

98elise

26,376 posts

160 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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shakotan said:
voyds9 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

Talktalk porn filters are now on by default, Sky to activate soon.

Guess I'll have to ring them to say I'm a normal red blooded male, can I have my porn back please.
Apparently its a simple checkbox on-screen, no contact required.

However I do find it wrong that we have to opt out rather than in.

Its like the account personnel will make some sort of pre-conceived judgement about me once they've seen I've opted out.
It's adult content, not just porn. O2 has had default filters for years. I only found out when I tried to access a site (not porn) and it blocked it. A quick call to their call centre and it was sorted.

Who watches porn on their phone anyway? My eyes are bad enough already!

Evolved

3,553 posts

186 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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This isn't just mobile network filtering though is it?

George111

6,930 posts

250 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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I think this is a great idea. My step children go to their Dad's in the holidays and he's not tech aware and doesn't really care anyway - they have seen porn in the past, probably by accident, but they are all far too young to see it and understand it, so it's far safer for them not to see it in the first place.

I know he should be more careful but the fact is he's not and having the filter on by default will give them some protection from a feckless father. They all have phones a children use phones like we use laptops !


pherlopolus

2,087 posts

157 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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the only issue is that it doesn't cut all the porn out of social networks like twitter which is worrying, I guess twitter will be the equivalent to the hedgerow porn you used to get when I was (much) younger...

clonmult

10,529 posts

208 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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pherlopolus said:
the only issue is that it doesn't cut all the porn out of social networks like twitter which is worrying, I guess twitter will be the equivalent to the hedgerow porn you used to get when I was (much) younger...
Except the hedgerow stuff was way, way, way stronger than anything that I've seen on twitter.

Mr MXT

7,691 posts

282 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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clonmult said:
Except the hedgerow stuff was way, way, way stronger than anything that I've seen on twitter.
I've seen things on Twitter....terrible things.

Teppic

7,317 posts

256 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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clonmult said:
Except the hedgerow stuff was way, way, way stronger than anything that I've seen on twitter.
Then you are following the wrong accounts.

RichTT

3,047 posts

170 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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Or hung about near some seriously bad hedgerows.

Tycho

11,554 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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George111 said:
I think this is a great idea. My step children go to their Dad's in the holidays and he's not tech aware and doesn't really care anyway - they have seen porn in the past, probably by accident, but they are all far too young to see it and understand it, so it's far safer for them not to see it in the first place.

I know he should be more careful but the fact is he's not and having the filter on by default will give them some protection from a feckless father. They all have phones a children use phones like we use laptops !
I agree in principle but this kind of thing always has some king of feature creep. PS it is easy to opt out. (So I've been told)

thehawk

9,335 posts

206 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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George111 said:
I think this is a great idea. My step children go to their Dad's in the holidays and he's not tech aware and doesn't really care anyway - they have seen porn in the past, probably by accident, but they are all far too young to see it and understand it, so it's far safer for them not to see it in the first place.
Sort of agree, obviously for young kids but oddly enough being a responsible parent, my kids have never come across any porn as the are supervised when on their devices and I have web filter software on my computers (K9 by Bluecoat)

It's the generation of teenagers I feel sorry for. Most of us will know the illicit and exciting feelings of discovering your Dad's Playboys or Fiestas. Sometime even the odd readers wife was good enough to have a wk over. But know we'll be locking them out of these sorts of experiences.

RobinBanks

17,540 posts

178 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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thehawk said:
ort of agree, obviously for young kids but oddly enough being a responsible parent, my kids have never come across any porn as the are supervised when on their devices and I have web filter software on my computers (K9 by Bluecoat)

It's the generation of teenagers I feel sorry for. Most of us will know the illicit and exciting feelings of discovering your Dad's Playboys or Fiestas. Sometime even the odd readers wife was good enough to have a wk over. But know we'll be locking them out of these sorts of experiences.
It could signal the rise of the porn magazine again.

Then again, I'm not too bothered as I don't feel that finding a copy of Razzle in a bush ever has been a particularly important part of teenage development.