They said it wouldn't happen ..

[Peter Korsten]

Jay Vaughan schreef op 16-12-2013 13:32:

> .. but of course, it did:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/13/bt-automatic-porn-filters
>
> Are you Brits seeing this in the news?  Is there any fuss about it?  Because, you know what comes after this .. anything the UK gov�t deems politically �un-safe� ..

Much ado about nothing. I've installed parental controls on my son's PC, 
meaning he cannot access stuff unsuitable for children about two years 
older than he is. Most prominently, Facebook. This is that Microsoft has 
done pretty well, but it's not particularly easy to configure (you need 
a Microsoft account, set up certain things, blah blah, the usual).

Unfortunately, he has no such controls on his iPad, because Apple 
doesn't care about this, and the controls that you can enforce on iOS 
are laughably inferior to what you can do with Windows 7 and higher. And 
when I did set it up, I completely messed up his iPad and had to do a 
clean install. Didn't make him particularly happy.

So I can see the point of doing this at provider level, and that 
"parental controls" are selected by default is common sense and 
pre-empting certain scenarios, with customers angry at BT because their 
children accessed naked-women.com or i-want-to-take-a-gun-to-school.com.

And before you start arguing about parental controls: they're in place 
not because I don't trust my son (I happily play Saints Row IV with him 
next to me), but because I don't trust the internet.

- Peter