Subscribers to four of the UK's biggest internet service providers will have to "opt in" if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.

The measures will be unveiled on Tuesday as David Cameron hosts No 10 meeting with the Mothers' Union, which earlier this year produced a raft of proposals to shield children from sexualised imagery.

The prime minister is expected to announce other moves in line with the Christian charity's review, such as restrictions on aggressive advertising campaigns and certain types of images on billboards.

There will also be a website, Parentport, which parents can use to complain about television programmes, advertisements, products or services which they believe are inappropriate for children.

The site, which will direct complaints to the regulator dealing with that specific area of concern, is expected to be run by watchdogs including the Advertising Standards Authority, BBC Trust, British Board of Film Classification, Ofcom, Press Complaints Commission, Video Standards Council and Pan European Game Information.

The service providers involved are BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin. Customers who do not opt in to adult content will be unableto access pornographic websites.

Cameron gave strong backing in June to the Mothers' Union proposals after he commissioned a six-month review by the charity's chief executive, Reg Bailey. However, Cameron did not commit to legislation.

Bailey's recommendations included providing parents with one single website to make it easier to complain about any programme, advert, product or service, putting age restrictions on music videos and ensuring retailers offer age-appropriate clothes for children.

Cameron wrote to Bailey in June to thank him for his report. "I very much agree with the central approach you set out," the letter said.

"As you say, we should not try and wrap children up in cotton wool or simply throw our hands up and accept the world as it is. Instead, we should look to put 'the brakes on an unthinking drift towards ever-greater commercialisation and sexualisation'."

Bailey's report asked for government and business to work together on initiatives such as ending the sale of inappropriately "sexy" clothing for young children, for example underwired bras and T-shirts with suggestive slogans.

However, he recommended that if retailers do not make progress on the issue they should be forced to make the changes in 18 months.

Oh so david cameron has lit the bulb this time Putting a "porn filter " on pc's ... yep thats the problem with thsi country :Y:

Not the rioting , murders, unemployment, terrorism, poverty, global warming, corrupt as ****ing government,(that watches porn) ...

But hey blocking some 14 year olds who sit in there house causing no problems and beating off will solve the problem no problamo...

I dunno if that's sarcasm, however, this shows he's not dealing with any of those things you mentioned? If he's too busy dealing with porn filters and child "safety", what's he doing about those you mentioned? So actually, this is a problem in the fact that he's not bothering sorting out the more important things wrong with the country but rather small problems that are not causing anyone harm. You think a 6 year old is going to go onto a computer and find porn to look at? Highly doubt it. They'll see more nudity in the woman changing room when they go swimming. If the parents are trying to protect their 10 year olds from looking at half naked women on a bill board or TV ad, then imo they are way too over protective. Instead of trying to censor everything, why not teach them more about it and try and cut the risk of diseases, rather than taking an easy way out.

They've changed it to opt in now :fyea:

Copy and paste, deal the **** with it.



So what do you think? I think this is ridiculous myself. Kids are going to learn about sex. You can't protect them from everything. T-shirts with suggestive slogans as well? I'm 20. I'm old enough to watch porn. However, the internet is under my dads name, so basically I would have to tell my dad I watch porn and have hand parties to get it unblocked? No thanks. And also, you have to tell your ISP you watch porn, which to be honest, not something you would want to discuss down the phone with someone you have never met. I think that parents should learn how to use a computer and block this shit themselves, rather than taking an easy way out and getting the ISP's do it all. Start up computer classes, or hell, even have a piece in the news on how to block it, step by step for the people in my situation. It's the parents responsibility to know what the kids are up too on the computer, but they can't be arsed to take 10 minutes to learn how to block sites.

Do you reckon this will reach America? Do you think it will last? Do you think people will swap to smaller ISP's to save themselves the hassle of telling a random person you watch scat porn?

And before anyone says "Go get a GF". You don't just stop watching porn because you have a bird.