No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed 390
whoever57 writes "Prime Minister David Cameron is proposing that porn should not be available through WiFi hotspots in public areas. Exactly how this will be implemented has not been identified, even to the extent of whether the ISP or the hotspot operator should implement the blocking. From the article: '
The Prime Minister said: “We are promoting good, clean, WiFi in local cafes and elsewhere to make sure that people have confidence in public WiFi systems so that they are not going to see things they shouldn’t.”
His intervention comes after a long-running campaign from children’s charities to ensure a blanket ban on unacceptable sites on public WiFi networks.'"
Re:Define pornography (Score:5, Informative)
Define it first you Socialist prick!
Whatever kind of prick David Cameron is, it's not a socialist one, genius.
Re:wtf, mate? (Score:5, Informative)
What the hell does the UK government have against porn? This is the second time they've tried to ban it.
I think you'll find that a large proportion of the UK population would agree that porn in public is a bad thing. We still cover up "top shelf" magazines in newsagents so you can't see the boobs. It wasn't until the advent of widespread internet access that any sort of hardcore porn was legal here. (I assume they just gave up at that point).
Supporting porn is not a vote winner here.
Re:No technical solutions for social problems (Score:4, Informative)
And nobody in his right mind would surf from a public hotspot without a VPN or at least an SSL/TLS encrpyted session.
Yeah, when I'm reading the BBC news website in Starbucks it's vital that it's over a VPN or SSL. Not.
Public wi-fi should be fine to use. Most email now uses encrypted connections, and beyond that just teach people the rule of thumb that if you don't know what you're doing (i.e. can't confirm it's secure), it's best to avoid using sites that you log on to when using public wi-fi.
And no, you can't stop it, but that's because it's impossible to identify. Do you block google image search? Only have whitelisted sites? Other than that, it's impossible to block, but can be made hard enough that most people won't bother.