UK internet ‘Name and Shame’ plan
p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom:- UK culture minister Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey, “have backed the idea that web providers must be embarrassed into dealing with violent, sexually explicit web content,” says The Guardian.
There’s, “growing chaos out there on the internet,” and, “order needs to be brought,” Follett reckons, says the story, going on:
“She has also admitted barriers aimed at preventing children from accessing over-age material on the internet are not just porous but leak like a sieve. ‘People can get straight through it, or straight by it’.”
Follett was discussing the Net and video games at a Westminster debate and, “facing suggestions that the industry is lax about controlling content,” says the story, which has her saying:
“We agree information about take-down times and levels of search need to be much clearer.”
Asked if she, “supported league tables of take-down times by internet service providers,” she said “name and shame can sometimes can work very well indeed,” adding:
“Many people have said that the internet is like the wild west in the gold rush and that sooner or later it will be regulated. What we need is for it to be regulated sooner rather than later.”
Or Follett coulde simply borrow a page from the book of another Labour government, this time in Australia, where Kevin Rudd wants is pushing a Net censorship scheme to ban “controversial websites” altogether.
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The Guardian – Web providers to be named and shamed over offensive content, November 15, 2008
Net censorship scheme – Australia censorship — ’same league as China’, November 12, 2008
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November 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
maybe parents should ‘parent’ more often.
why should my pr0n access be denied due to lack of parental supervision?
but I don’t live in Canada, either.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
surfer shows lack of basic reading skills there…
‘UK culture minister Barbara Follett, and her Tory shadow, Ed Vaizey, “have backed the idea that web providers must be embarrassed into dealing with violent, sexually explicit web content,” says The Guardian.’
Four references to UK politics should be enough to point that out.
I laugh in their idea that the web should be regulated. The entire reason it has prospered is because it has been open. The only barrier to access is bandwidth costs and hosting.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I’m also pretty sure that surfer isn’t the one who wrote the “Share The Wealth” stories.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:07 am
“74yy Say….” -> smells likes soms crap passed your filter unless we got a chinese dissedent interested in your site