Sky to Block your favourite sites by default...

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LOL at some of the responses! Some of you need to relax and take your tinfoil hat off. Many people were unaware of the Shield. Now they will be. Bad thing? No. Precedent? Possibly. A list of 'possible paedophiles' purely from those opting out? Don't be so bloody stupid!
Stop with the logical, sensible approach! :p This is GD after all! :D
 
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The parent of course as this ruling is to protect the children, easily enforced by the ISP they would run the course and once completed the ISP would turn the interwebs.

Make that a national ruling and only those affected are impacted NOT the whole country

I see, so force parents on a course which they have to pay for.

Do you really think that will work? :rolleyes:
 
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I see, so force parents on a course which they have to pay for.

Do you really think that will work? :rolleyes:

If the mantra is "think of the children", then it makes complete sense. It goes with the territory if you are parent.

Surely the course would be in their benefit, pass the course they can have the internet and at the same time they have learned a skill to "protect their children"
 
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If the mantra is "think of the children", then it makes complete sense. It goes with the territory if you are parent.

Surely the course would be in their benefit, pass the course they can have the internet and at the same time they have learned a skill to "protect their children"

But that would imply that they can't access the internet without passing the course? that would be a lot worse than what sky are proposing in regards to limiting what people can access.

Besides with so many families struggling to get by it would be very difficult to force them to go on a course, nevermind make them pay for it themselves.

Use a VPN. Browse whatever the hell you want.

Why? just login an unblock it. Or is this advice for children wishing to bypass the protection? :eek:
 
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But that would imply that they can't access the internet without passing the course? that would be a lot worse than what sky are proposing in regards to limiting what people can access.

Besides with so many families struggling to get by it would be very difficult to force them to go on a course, nevermind make them pay for it themselves.

Don't see your point, if the decision is based on protecting the children then it makes complete sense only those affected should be impacted not everyone :(
 
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And now Talk Talk....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30982552

"Filters will only ever be applied if the customer has consented..."

How can you consent if it's on by default before you have been asked to consent?

This has all come from David Cameron's crusade to make everyone have to opt-in to guff.

As for TalkTalk (and any other ISP) as long as they have asked the subscriber the blocking on/off question somehow, then they have followed the government mandate.


Any new subscriber will be asked if they want it on/off at the point of sign-up of the service.




and as people have said, it's pretty easy to turn off, or bypass, if you so wish.
 
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yawn, just call them up and tell them to not block anything or change ISP to one with slightly more integrity and backbone

failing that 99.56% of us know how to circumvent all these blocks what does it change?
 
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Give it a few years and there will be discussions about making it impossible to opt out of these filters, which by then will be excluding millions of sites that those in power don't like.


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Use a Raspberry Pi as a Tor/VPN Router for Anonymous Browsing

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