Internet Porn Site Regulation

Ofcom has today published its 3rd survey into the use and effectiveness of Internet safety measures, such as the network-level filtering (Parental Control) tools that were last year introduced by all of the largest broadband ISPs to help block “adult content” from young eyes.

Around two in five parents of children aged 5-15 with broadband at home, who do not use any particular technical tools to manage their child’s access and use, say that this is because they “talk to their child and use other types of mediation“; a similar proportion say it is because they “trust their child“.

Interestingly 48% of children say their parents use parental filtering software (compared with only 26% across Europe – no real change since 2010) and nearly half of UK children think their parents know a lot about what they do online – especially among the younger children. By comparison a quarter of parents think their child is able to bypass the technical controls they use.

just 11% said they knew how to disable online filters or controls (18% in 2013), and just 3% had done this in the past year (6% in 2013).

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