The evolution of the Internet continues as states take an increasingly active role in shaping it. The latest evidence: the UK?s David Cameron has announced a spate of new initiatives aimed at regulating and limiting people?s access to pornography.
Every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced.?In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales ? in line with Scotland.
In a speech, Mr Cameron warned that access to online pornography was ?corroding childhood?.?The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers.
Mr Cameron also called for some ?horrific? internet search terms to be ?blacklisted?, meaning they would automatically bring up no results on websites such as Google or Bing.
Once upon a time, the Internet was a kind of paradise. It was a digital utopia with no police, and many saw it as an agent of rapid democratization. But human nature is a constant, and ever since its creation the Internet has been losing its utopian quality bit by bit.?Today the Internet is filled with powerful state presences watching everything we do. It is a battlefield where states search for new ways to vie with one another in the digital world. And every kind of crime flourishes there.
Yet the good things are still there too. Cyberspace may be no better than meatspace, but it is also no worse. And the problem of allowing as much freedom on the net as is compatible with public safety is pretty much the same problem all human societies face as they balance state power and freedom in their daily lives.
We don?t live in Eden any more; the gates of the earthly paradise are closed. States are extending their reach into the last frontier, and the sheriffs and the schoolmarms are coming to tame the Wild West. The range is going to be increasingly closed up and fenced in, and a lot of Internet businesses will have to adapt or be left behind.
[David Cameron photo courtesy Getty Images]
Source: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/07/22/cameron-tries-to-tame-internet-porn/
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