David Cameron: I'm ready for a 'big argument' over pornography
 

Internet firms must do more to block "depraved and disgusting" images online, David Cameron said today, as he told how he is "desperately worried" over his own children's access to pornography.

The Prime Minister said there would be a "big argument" and "very, very strong conversations" with internet companies, as they come under pressure to remove illegal images of children and monitor legal pornography.

He will tomorrow threaten the companies, such as search engine giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, with legislation unless they completely wipe out access to images of children being sexually abused.

In a key speech, he will say the internet firms have a "moral duty" to act.

Mr Cameron also said he would press for "extra steps" to stop children getting access to pornography on household computers or their mobile phones.

Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said the "biggest argument" would be getting the companies to block access to child abuse.

“Let’s be fair to the companies, there are some good things that they’re doing – they’re making public wi-fi safer, that’s good; they’re flashing up warnings, some of them, when people are searching for things that are wrong," he said.

"But there is this problem, yes, that some people are putting simply appalling terms into the internet in order to find illegal images of child abuse – and remember every one of these pictures is a crime scene – and they’re getting results.

“I think it’s wrong that they should get results and we need to have very, very strong conversations with those companies about saying 'No, you shouldn't provide results for some terms that are so depraved and disgusting I can’t even say them on your show'.

"I think there's going to be a big argument there, and if we don't get what we need we'll have to look at legislation."

Mr Cameron acknowledged that politicians have not done enough in the past to prevent the spread of indecent images.

In terms of legal pornography, the Prime Minister said he also wanted to do more to stop children getting access to adult images online.

“We need to do more on this as well, and I speak as a parent – I’ve got a nine-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a soon-to-be three-year-old," he said.

"I worry desperately about this and I know parents do. Because when we’re offline, there are rules about what films you can see in a cinema, what age you have to be to buy alcohol or cigarettes or what have you; but on the internet, there aren’t those rules so we need to help parents with control."

Downing Street had wanted internet service providers (ISPs) to introduce “default on” filters that would oblige home owners to opt in to receive violent or sexually graphic material.

However, the internet companies argue that this would encourage complacency among parents and Britain could be accused of censorship.

The Government’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has published research that suggests more than half of those who view child abuse images go on to commit abuse themselves.

Last month Google announced that it was giving £1 million to the internet Watch Foundation, which trawls the web for and reports offensive images.

However, the company says it is not responsible for policing the internet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...web-firms.html

Dangerous Dangerous Dangerous step, I'm against child abuse but censoring the internet is a dangerous step!

I first got into hacking trying to learn how to bi-pass net nanny so I could view porn when i was 13.

at the end of the day your not going to stop a hormonal teen viewing porn!

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pure bullshit, do you think that they keep this content on purpose ?

story telling

So a cop will monitor each request to tell if it's "depraved and disgusting" or not. (a cop, since a bot is not supposed to understand)
This looks like china...

The telegraph should't be allowed to post this kind of fascist propaganda

I honestly have no problem with this whatsoever. This is no different from a sex cinema having blacked out windows. You have to GO THROUGH the door to see the action, and only over18s are allowed through the door. Those are the paying customers, not minors.
I don't mind at all if this is the situation the adult industry would be in, ACROSS THE BOARD. But it won't be. It'll be that sites based in the UK have age controls in place, and all the kids continue to jerk off over the free tubes.

Agreed. :thumbsup

Deja vous...here we go again - the state trying to impose censorship in an area that should be governed by parental responsibility.

I'll personally set up the webcam and invite David Cameron over to lick my balls for a PPV broadcast.

Would be great if the cocksuckers would also act upon other illegal activities such as copyright infringements!!!!:321GFY

:2 cents::2 cents::thumbsup

It's smoke and mirrors bullshit. There is no cp problem on the web compared to 10-20 years ago. It's more social issues bullshit to take our eyes off the real problems.

Fix the damn economy and stop the immigration problems. The UK is having the same issues as the U.S

I'm all for wiping out CP.

For blocking minors from accessing pornography that basically means some kind of AVS. I'm all in favor of that. I remember the days of AVS were boom days for this industry. But then again part of me realizes that the industry scumbags would only use it to further their own monopolies and the free porn situation probably wouldn't change much as these idiots would still give it out for free to the people who verify which they would also probably do for free for them.

But if you could bring back the old days where most of the porn required a credit card and some fee over $30 a year you would see a huge boom to this entire industry.

You're a fool if you think this is about increasing your profits and not about eventually taking away your income altogether. Baby steps.

Parents need to monitor their children's Internet access. My boyfriends little brother has a tablet with a walled Internet and while he can have things like Skype, his mother has to enter her password to add a contact and he cannot accept calls from those not on his list. Since his brothers are so far away, each can video chat him whenever they want (and vice versa), but nobody else can. She can also view all of his activity anytime she chooses.

They need to be looking more along those lines.

What has already been happening for most of the industry though due to the availability of it for free? The exact thing you speak of and this is the trend.

A filter then maybe? I hear that approach is being proposed in the UK.

Honestly I am conflicted. For business I would love to see porn require some sort of AVS for the reason I explained. But otherwise I worry about censorship and other abuse.

Being real right now any 7 year old can type in "pornhub.com" or "youporn.com" and see the nastiest porn right on the front page with a couple clicks. I can see where maybe this is a problem. Parents can't watch everything and even if they do usually one of the kid's friend's parents does not. I can see where there needs to be some middle ground here at least. Like maybe softcore only out in the open? Something along these lines. Something somewhat reasonable that we can live with.

this won't change.
Adapt or die.

Well, yes, online porn is obviously no more a mafia business...

Already have. But I'd love to see it change back some the other way.

i dont believe he will get an argument from anyone here about illegal pornography.

All search engine should banned the child pornograhy or child abuse keywords to be searched n block all site and images.