UK Porn Providers Say Porn Filters Jolly Good

The sun may never set on the British empire, but it still wants its pornography to reside in the shadows. The government is proposing a blanket blocking system to hide online porn from all but those legally eligible to enjoy it, and the pornographers of England are okay with it. To a point.

"From an adult industry perspective, if it's just pornography you want to block access to then filtering is largely effective," said Chris Ratcliff, managing director of Television X owner Portland TV, told Recombu Digital.

"However there are better filters available than those offered by the ISPs which are also less prone to overblocking. US company Metacert for example has catalogued over 700 million porn sites and has launched plug-ins for Firefox and Chrome as well as an iPad browser and an Android app."

According to TechRadar.com (link below): "Ratcliff said the industry itself has had no dialogue with the government, so is instead looking to engage with parents directly on what it sees as a better way to stem the tide of unsolicited adult content."

Government and pornographers working together? The lion has laid the lamb.

Via Tech Radar