{"id":10343,"date":"2013-07-22T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:48:16","slug":"soon-youll-have-to-opt-in-to-get-porn-online-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2013\/07\/22\/soon-youll-have-to-opt-in-to-get-porn-online-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon you’ll have to opt IN to get porn online in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Says David Cameron, the Prime Minister<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Children can\u2019t go into the shops or the cinema and buy things meant for adults or have adult experiences \u2013 we rightly regulate to protect them.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to the internet in the balance between freedom and responsibility, we have neglected our responsibility to our children.<\/p>\n

My argument is that the internet is not a side-line to \u2018real life\u2019 or an escape from \u2018real life\u2019; it is real life.<\/p>\n

It has an impact: on the children who view things that harm them on the vile images of abuse that pollute minds and cause crime on the very values that underpin our society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is introducing a number of measures to make it harder for people to look at child porn and depictions of rape.\u00a0 And pornographic images will automatically be filtered out by default, unless you deliberately opt out of the filter.<\/p>\n

But what about free speech?<\/em>\u00a0 I\u2019ve been around and around that mulberry bush more times than I can count, so I\u2019m no longer surprised when people imagine that a free society entitles them to\u00a0shit all over the whole world \u2014 and that it\u2019s parents\u2019 job to shovel a little path through the\u00a0shit for their kids,\u00a0if they\u2019re going to be super uptight about it.<\/p>\n

This law doesn\u2019t outlaw pooping.\u00a0 It just acknowledges that shit is shit, and it should be treated accordingly.<\/p>\n

It should be hard to find porn.\u00a0 It should be embarrassing.\u00a0\u00a0Using it\u00a0should make you feel nervous and guilty, because it is bad for you, bad for your family, and bad for society.\u00a0 And if you are enslaved to it, you should be grateful that the public and private sectors are working together to make it less accessible and normalized.<\/p>\n

How I wish we could see laws like this in the United States.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a parents\u2019 job to protect children, and it\u2019s still up to the individual to fight back against the flood of porn.\u00a0 But making it a little less normal, a little less accessible, is a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

For help in breaking an addiction to porn, or for dealing with it if your spouse is addicted, see these resources:<\/p>\n

Integrity Restored<\/a><\/p>\n

Matt Fradd\u2019s The Porn Effect<\/a><\/p>\n

Fight the New Drug<\/a><\/p>\n

Porn\u00a0No More<\/a><\/p>\n

Marcel Lejeune\u2019s list of strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feel free to add your own recommendations in the comment box.\u00a0 Porn is powerful and corrosive,\u00a0but the fight against it is by no means hopeless!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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