The British voluntary filter porn sites to block, prevents surfers also access to sites that are sexual education, such as the sites about pornography, and even sites about domestic violence. At the same time, some of the porn sites not blocked.
British Telecom blocks two sites on domestic violence, in addition to a site about sexual health, so came to the Uk program Newsnight. The British telecoms provider Sky will block six sites that provide information about sex addiction, while TalkTalk rejecting access to sites general sex education, as well as a website with information about sexual abuse.
At the same time, not all porn sites are blocked. Of the 68 porn sites that Newsnight over a TalkTalk connection, tried to visit, was 7 percent is not blocked. Sky did better: 99 per cent of the tested sites was blocked. How many porn sites BT blocks, is unknown.
British providers have recently begun entering the pornoblokkade. This allows new customers of the providers default is no porn to view, unless they consciously indicate that they have porn sites to visit. Existing subscribers can have the option if desired to enable. In addition, providers are to contact existing customers about whether they pornofilter want to enable.
Although the filters are referred to porn, to block, subscribers can also choose to use another content block that can be harmful for children, such as pages about zelfmutilatie. The pornofilter is not legally required, but it is introduced after pressure from the British government. The netherlands is going to internetporno not block, so the government last summer announced.
