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Prevent David Cameron's Online Pornography Block.

Submitted on Monday 22nd July 2013

Published on Tuesday 23rd July 2013

Current status: Closed

Closed: Wednesday 23rd July 2014

Signatures: 43

Tagged with

Censorship ~ Child ~ Children ~ David Cameron ~ Internet ~ UK

Petition Action

Prevent David Cameron's Online Pornography Block.

Additional Information

The following signitories would like to request that the UK government reconsider their proposal to require that ISP's impliment an opt-in system, blocking access to online pornography.

While we understand this is in the interests of child safety and wellbeing. Child safety and supervision online are parental, not governmental responsibilities. Free and easy to use tools are already available online to prevent access to pornograpic content without requiring the implimentation of a blocking system, and implimenting blocks on the behalf of parents, only encourages further lazy online parenting, allowing children to fall victim to other online dangers.

This system could also easily become a slippery slope to other forms of internet censorship in the future and would be an international embarassment to the UK, as a country that actively preaches the merits of freedom of expression, and has on many occasions denounced China's "great firewall".


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