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<blockquote data-quote="Big Mac" data-source="post: 6326251" data-attributes="member: 61182">It wasn't so long ago that people were criticising the &quot;Great Firewall of China&quot; and now it seems we are getting BT to build one here.If they want to have this &quot;social networking&quot; category that parents can opt into, that is less bad*, but from what I understand social networking is automatically blocked if the filtering system is et to medium. So if a parent is concerned about their child seeing erotic pictures, they are going to increase the filter and block EN World. That is just wrong.* = It is still bad to blanket block social networking, as children need to learn how to communicate with other people, but if they are concerned with that something like a forum blocklist, where parents can turn each forum on or off individually would be more appropriate.I just can't see this sledgehammer approach working because, if a child does pursuade a parent to allow them to use Facebook, BT is going to allow that child to access dodgy websites (like the ones encouraging anorexia or self-harm).This all or nothing thing is not really protecting children at all. The government should take individual action against unethical forums and leave forums like EN World alone.It is not your barmy idea. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I bet it is not even BT's idea. Someone at OFCOM or some other QUANGO probably came up with this plan.And how long is it going to be before the government bans emails from EN World? If the EN World forum is a &quot;risk to children&quot; surely the emails would be just as &quot;dangerous&quot;. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />I'm guessing that Google will work normally......unless Google.co.uk have been ordered to detect BT's Parental Control filters, so that they automatically block out any &quot;naughty&quot; pages in the search results. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Mac, post: 6326251, member: 61182"] It wasn't so long ago that people were criticising the "Great Firewall of China" and now it seems we are getting BT to build one here. If they want to have this "social networking" category that parents can opt into, that is less bad*, but from what I understand social networking is automatically blocked if the filtering system is et to medium. So if a parent is concerned about their child seeing erotic pictures, they are going to increase the filter and block EN World. That is just wrong. [I]* = It is still bad to blanket block social networking, as children need to learn how to communicate with other people, but if they are concerned with that something like a forum blocklist, where parents can turn each forum on or off individually would be more appropriate.[/I] I just can't see this sledgehammer approach working because, if a child does pursuade a parent to allow them to use Facebook, BT is going to allow that child to access dodgy websites (like the ones encouraging anorexia or self-harm). This all or nothing thing is not really protecting children at all. The government should take individual action against unethical forums and leave forums like EN World alone. It is not [I]your[/I] barmy idea. ;) I bet it is not even BT's idea. Someone at OFCOM or some other QUANGO probably came up with this plan. And how long is it going to be before the government bans emails from EN World? If the EN World forum is a "risk to children" surely the emails would be just as "dangerous". :uhoh: I'm guessing that Google will work normally... ...unless Google.co.uk have been ordered to detect BT's Parental Control filters, so that they automatically block out any "naughty" pages in the search results. :confused: [/QUOTE]

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