Religious beliefs on the Internet: Between ignorance and censorship

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Hell, the Daily Mail is demanding 'strict age checks' before *anyone* is allowed to access stuff

not just the "default to full parental controls, ie censorship" which is what the government wants.

The statistics support the Daily Mail’s campaign for internet service providers to be forced to block unsafe material, with over-18s able to access adult material only following a strict age check.

The Government has agreed a compromise solution, under which all new broadband contracts will have filters turned on and existing customers will be prompted to make a decision about their service.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2444171/Nearly-60-parents-online-protection-filters-family-computer.html

Every household has someone over 18. So why they think they need 'strict age checks', I can't see. But they're campaigning for it to be harder than ever to get to web forums etc. The Mail's right hand sidebar is still full of stories leering at women in various skimpy outfits, of course, but since "tabloid newspaper" is not one of the groups the ISPs are thinking of using, they're fine with this.