Well it's essentially very simple;....they, meaning successive recent UK governments since Mother Thatcher's, have been steadily eroding freedom of speach, expression, and knowledge, along with quite a few other things..... Into this situation the internet happened, and naturally poses a serious threat for all who would seek to control the masses by enforced ignorance.


Successive UK governments have made annoyed sounds about various aspects of the web and suggested that it should be adapted and reduced to what they consider is suitable for the masses to look at. 'Reasons' have included terrorism, peadophilia, public safety, loss of liscensing revenue, the combat of "piracy", crime, both organised and casual, anti-social behaviour, drug abuse and religion,..or rather NOT upsetting the non-christians etc etc.


The current agitation is a government notification that it "needs" to control what young people can have access to, and that very much precludes anything pornagraphic. They know that there will be an outrage if they try to ban
it completely so the current idea is that you will have to 'opt in' to get it on your screen there bye marking yourself out as a sexual deviant of no worthwhile character.


.......Of course there's no evidence of a massive problem with young people and pornography,...but, Hey!!.....think how good a ban will look on the fronts of all the newspapers etc!!


UK govenment authorities already record the sites that every one of us looks at,...yes, including this one, with records kept for one year. Once they get a toehold on a tiny part of the web, more amd more bans and controls will certainly follow until your screen can only show what the government wants you to see.......