Internet Porn Site Regulation

^ The 'need' is all in the minds of surreptitious agenda driven politicians and their associaties.

Thing is, governments are ultimately about control. And particularly important in today's age is a control of 'message'.

The internet is an anathma to this in its largely unaccountable nature; the public being increasingly informed by non-standard news media - almost all these sources originating online. This not only threatens the reach of the message of those in power but also the commercial viabilty of those usually charged with disseminating it.

The targeting of porn is simply the easiest bridgehead in the world to establishing the foundations of the censorship required to combat this. Unfortunately we in the UK are a public nutured by years of censorship unparalled in any country in the west. So we nod along to all the unverified, but responsibility easing, cries of 'think of the children', until it's too late and something truly important (unlike easy access to porn) has been lost.