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http://www.guardian....rvice-providers Subscribers to four of the UK's biggest internet service providers will have to "opt in" if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online. Hugely irresponsible to just sit back and say "We can't be bothered to educate ourselves, lets pester the state to fulfill our parental responsibilities for us" Surely if you are concerened about your children looking at sexually explicit material on the internet then you should either educate yourself on measures to prevent this or monitor the time that your children spend online? Isn't this simply the beginning of internet censorship? today "adult", tomorrow "provoking", then "thought provoking"? And at what part do they draw the line, are they going to block access to sites that contain the word sex? Its not the states responsibility to censor the internet for parents who aren't responsible enough to supervise their childrens use of the internet. The parents should get off their arses and educate themselves about... (sure there are courses that they could do in the local community). Essentially relying on the state to police what children are accessing is lazy and should not be promoted by the government, they should be taking more measures to educate parents into finding out what is out there as I bet there are LOT of people who aren't even aware of what is available. They can then make a decision themselves as to what they feel their children should be allowed to access. This, all coming from a group of mothers who probably sit and read Hello, OK! or whatever other overpriced magazine to stare at the sexualisation of women in the media and who let their 13 year old daughters go out in those stupid shorts that seem to be the craze. tl;dr: Censorship on the internet is being introduced in the form of porn filtering by ISP's. Discuss?