14 DAY TRIAL // With the Pirate Bay taken care of, and internet piracy with it, the British are turning their eyes on the next biggest threat: “adult content.” Yes, the age old plague has become more vile than ever since the advent of the internet. Parents are helpless in protecting their children, who are now able find anything their filthy little minds can think of on the wild, untamed spaces of the internet.
Left with no alternative, they turn to their government which, up until now, hasn't been doing enough to contain the danger.
Thankfully, Prime Minister David Cameron, having already fixed the country's economy and all of the other ailments that threatened it when he took office, is on the job.
The PM has been pressuring MPs to find some way of coercing ISPs into blocking material than any normal human being would distasteful, offensive, if not downright despicable.
Because, while adults may be able to judge for themselves and keep well away from the allure of the seedier sides of the internet, children have no such restraint.
An all-out ban is the solution, “adult content” is to be filtered out, the UK internet free of filth for the first time. But don't mistake this for censorship, the government won't be dictating what you can and can't do online.
It is merely protecting millions of children whose parents simply can't take them away from their computers, enable the optional filters ISPs already have in place, install any of the many, many parental control software, or simply educate their kids.
Adults that, for whatever reason, might want to access content that is designed specifically for them can simply ask their ISPs for permission, it's as simple as that. Granted, all of this is boasting and grandstanding, for now, as befits politicians the world over, but grandstanding has led to plenty of very poorly conceived laws in the past.