Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces
Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.
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The first time I saw internet porn was because of the 90s children’s show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? In the episode that introduced me to porn, the host of the game show asked what the website of the president was, during the Bill Clinton era. Given that the internet was a flashy new invention at the time, a question like this was actually somewhat difficult for a child to answer. The options included the correct answer (whitehouse.gov) and a fake one (bubba.com). Bubba was, of course, the codename for the president of the time. Even though the answer was obviously not bubba.com, as a curious nine or ten year old with an internet connection, I wanted to see what was on Bubba anyway. As the site loaded through my painfully slow dial-up connection, I remember seeing boobs. Very clearly. Even then, I was shocked that PBS had officially shown me my first porn site—but I wasn’t necessarily mad about it. Likewise, there were the Playboy magazines that would always appear in the garbage cans at my elementary school, or the one kid in my class who found his dad’s favourite porn VHS, taped under the pool table in his basement. Porn is part of society, and for a lot of kids, it’s part of growing up. Even if they’re not searching it out. That may not be something to be proud of, but it’s also not necessarily something we need to spend mass amounts of public resources trying to contain.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:my mom had playboys around the house since i was like 12 years old. i dunno, though, static images never did anything for me. the first porno-porno i remember was this softcore mexican VHS my mexican-american bff at the time and i found. in retrospect the plot was basically 100 years of solitude, but for porno
Bill Clinton's impeachment was pretty influential in the sexual education of 90's kids, because thanks to left around Penthouse mags and internet curiosity I was able to explain to my peers what "oral sex" and "blowjobs" were.
MadMedico posted:http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/filtering-out-online-porn-is-a-dumb-idea
The first time I saw internet porn was because of the 90s children’s show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? In the episode that introduced me to porn, the host of the game show asked what the website of the president was, during the Bill Clinton era. Given that the internet was a flashy new invention at the time, a question like this was actually somewhat difficult for a child to answer. The options included the correct answer (whitehouse.gov) and a fake one (bubba.com). Bubba was, of course, the codename for the president of the time. Even though the answer was obviously not bubba.com, as a curious nine or ten year old with an internet connection, I wanted to see what was on Bubba anyway. As the site loaded through my painfully slow dial-up connection, I remember seeing boobs. Very clearly. Even then, I was shocked that PBS had officially shown me my first porn site—but I wasn’t necessarily mad about it. Likewise, there were the Playboy magazines that would always appear in the garbage cans at my elementary school, or the one kid in my class who found his dad’s favourite porn VHS, taped under the pool table in his basement. Porn is part of society, and for a lot of kids, it’s part of growing up. Even if they’re not searching it out. That may not be something to be proud of, but it’s also not necessarily something we need to spend mass amounts of public resources trying to contain.
whitehouse.com was literally a hardcore porn site from like the mid-90s to 2004
The Royal Statistical Society and King's College London shows public opinion is repeatedly off the mark on issues including crime, benefit fraud and immigration.
The research, carried out by Ipsos Mori from a phone survey of 1,015 people aged 16 to 75, lists ten misconceptions held by the British public. Among the biggest misconceptions are:
- Benefit fraud: the public think that £24 of every £100 of benefits is fraudulently claimed. Official estimates are that just 70 pence in every £100 is fraudulent - so the public conception is out by a factor of 34.
- Immigration: some 31 per cent of the population is thought to consist of recent immigrants, when the figure is actually 13 per cent. Even including illegal immigrants, the figure is only about 15 per cent. On the issue of ethnicity, black and Asian people are thought to make up 30 per cent of the population, when the figure is closer to 11 per cent.
- Crime: some 58 per cent of people do not believe crime is falling, when the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows that incidents of crime were 19 per cent lower in 2012 than in 2006/07 and 53 per cent lower than in 1995. Some 51 per cent think violent crime is rising, when it has fallen from almost 2.5 million incidents in 2006/07 to under 2 million in 2012.
- Teen pregnancy is thought to be 25 times higher than the official estimates: 15 per cent of of girls under 16 are thought to become pregnant every year, when official figures say the amount is closer to 0.6 per cent.
Among the other surprising figures are that 26 per cent of people think foreign aid is in the top three items the Government spends money on (it actually makes up just 1.1 per cent of expenditure), and that 29 per cent of people think more is spent on Jobseekers' Allowance than pensions.
In fact we spend 15 times more on pensions - £4.9 billion on JSA vs £74.2 billion on pensions.
