Comment Re:You can switch it off. (Score 1) 195
> I mean really, are you planning on sticking glue in the CDROM drive and USB ports to prevent them
> from booting a ubuntu live distro with TOR? Because that's all it takes.
Do you really think 10-12 year olds and younger have the know-how to find and download a live distro, flash/burn it, then configure TOR, and access porn!? Even if it were so, a properly locked down system would ask for a password before allowing boot from DVD or USB, and even writing DVD/USB can be turned off for child accounts. As for mobile, a solid netnanny type software on mobile should be even more difficult to circumvent as booting of alternate media and bypassing the OS wouldn't be possible with it.
As for your argument that an average parent doesn't themselves have the capability to install such measures, I tend to agree. But is it the proper strategy to deal with someone ignorant of X by forbidding Y or rather educating them on X?
Anyway by all means let the UK have its netnanny filter if it wants. I think time will show that it failed in its stated purpose. I just hope other countries don't follow this lead. Freedom on the Internet has been enough eroded as it is, without people who themselves search for porn in legislatures telling me I can't do this or that! At the very least such a filter should be opt-in, not opt-out.