Comment Another bad idea (Score 0) 286
This is probably the worst thing the Government can do, they have enough problems running the country never mind the internet as well.
I have always said all parents should never leave children to use the internet with out having their own protection in place.
I have always said that all porn should be banished to the xxx Tld therefore making it easy for parents to block.
Governments should keep out of this as everyone who reads Slashdot knows how to bypass the blocks by just using a proxy all this will do is make push more people onto using the darkweb or running VPN servers or other using freely available software like Tor and Privoxy, or if they just use filters on the DNS they would just use DNS resolvers from another country.
The ISP`s would have to implement this via expensive switches to make a difference which would slow the internet down for us in the uk more than it is now as well as adding the extra costs to our bills to cover the administration.
Sky has failed already implementing the blocks to the piratebay and anyway which person would use any other than a private tracker and protection to stop RIAA from seeing their ipaddress anyway.
Whats next the internet companies will find a way to make users pay them for access to porn and drive the whole thing underground where funnily enough the kids will still bypass it if they want to find it.
You cannot add a third of the internet to blocklists and keep them current as it is.