So a country in which porn is illegal has all those problems regardless?I think it also depends on the society. I think in the Catholic, socially backwards Asian island where I am currently visiting, legalizing porn and removing the filters could possibly have a damaging effect on society. The rape rate here is very high, the incest/child abuse rate among locals is out of control, alcoholism in an epidemic and people here are generally very uneducated about sex as the schools teach NOTHING and expect parents to do it all.... ya know, those alcoholic parents with 8 children.
But rolling back the clock in a place like the UK would just be silly
I would argue that this is more dangerous than law making.Smaller ISP's have refused to do it - such pressure as has been applied has been of the PR variety. If the Big Four ISP's had refused they would have struggled to spin it as anything other than "neglecting the children". That would have left a gap for the mid-size ISP's to market themselves as "family friendly" and steal market share.
Basically - this measure is in line with the public mood.
It's also important to understand that these filters are already in place, all that is happening is that the default is being set to "on" like on websites like YouTube.
In this case - the government is not the force behind this, they are riding the wave of public feeling. This debate about access to pornography has been going this way for at least half a decade - which is about how long the talking heads have been demanding action. As action goes this is very restrained - no new laws - just ISP's being persuaded to bow to public pressure.
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