- Source: London July 22, 2013 (AP)
providers Internet services in Britain will be asked to automatically block access to pornographic websites unless customers opt in, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.
Cameron announced the move as part of measures to put an end to extreme sexual imagery, he said, "corroding childhood".
In a speech to charity children, Cameron said "" filters family become the default setting for new customers by the end of the year, and only account holders would be able to change them.
it also announced a proposal to make it a crime to possess violent pornography containing simulated rape scenes, and said Google and other search engines would be required to block the research on the basis of certain phrases .
Anti-pornography activists have welcomed the announcement, but critics said the measures would be difficult to implement.
Cameron, however, said service providers should be able to find solutions.
"If there are technical obstacles to do something about it, do not stand by and say nothing can be done;. Use your big brains to overcome," he said
"You are the people who have worked on how to map nearly every inch of the earth from space, that algorithms that make sense of vast amounts of information. You are the people who are proud to do what they say can not be done. "
But Padraig Reidy of free speech group Index on Censorship said the proposals amounted to" a kind of default censorship. "
radio" If a filter is implemented as a defect, then it can really limit what people can see rightly, "he told the BBC." Sites on sexual health, sexuality and so on, will be caught in the same filters as pornography. It will really restrict people's experience on the web, including children. "
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