Okay, so I don't live in the UK, and this ban has no effect on me at all. Even so, I still find the whole thing to be crazy. Literally crazy! Like, what is this guy thinking? Does he know nothing about how things work? Anyone who did any research into the issues of child pornography (and I would think that a major politician trying to set policy regarding it would do the legwork) knows that it doesn't operate on regular networks. It's not like there's 'Google Kiddie Porn'. So all this would accomplish is stopping guys like me from jerking off to a little legal pornography, while at the same time making sites that would have operated legally have to use the same channels as the dark internet. It's like he's saying he wants to stop something, while essentially enabling it more...hmm...perhaps that was the goal all along. It's this kind of bad decision making that makes us have to question the people governing us, and what their motives are.
I don't support anything bad. I think Tor and Freenet are interesting for what they provide, but I'm just as happy with VPN connections and site unblockers like the torch browser which uses hola to get past geographical restrictions. Just the fact that this idea has already been integrated into a completely legal chrome-based browser is enough to reason that the days of blocking content are coming to an end. And though I completely support this when it comes to downloading material, I do see the issue when it comes to illegal activity, and more specifically, the kind that endangers the welfare of others. That said, banning legal porn is so not the way to do it that this policy can be considered an epic fail. If it doesn't go through, then Cameron is done for ever having mentioned it. If it does somehow get through, then he's the guy that spearheaded the cause that strengthened the dark internet. No matter how you look at it the guy is officially done. The question is, how much damage will he cause before he's thrown out on his ass?
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dark-net-vast-hidden-web-5374082
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