#News - Cowardly Cameron shutting the door to internet porn and opens one to internet crime

It is quite obvious that Cameron needs sme kind of populist target now that he has failed to get any significant legislation introduced regarding tobacco and alcohol. I say he failed but the fact that there is tax income on both begs the question of the sincerity of his efforts to bring about plain packaging and minimum pricing.

There is no tax income from internet usage YET so Cameron obviously feels on safer ground. Also, of course, he can pass on responsibility for curbs to the providers rather than have the expenses involved come out of government sources.

However, he has plainly failed to take into account a couple of the inevitable consequences of internet restrictions.
Firstly any filtering will slow down internet speeds to something akin to pre broadband days. It will nullify all the efforts to increase broadband speeds throughout the country.
Secondly it will open the door to a wave of internet crime hitherto unseen in Britain. Very few people will have ever seen an email from their internet provider before and therefore will have no idea what one should look like. So emails will arrive in the inboxes of the technically befuddled public instructing them to do whatever to their computers. Joe Bloggs, in his attempts to keep viewing his favourite porn sites, will be told that if he downloads this or that software he will be able to get round any kind of ISP controls. Of course all his personal information will be hoovered up by some kind of phishing malware.

And the worst thing about the idiot Cameron's foolish scheme, supported by the increasingly rabid Daily Mail, is that it is literally the thin end of a totalitarian wedge. Once the basic mechanism for controlling internet freedom is in place, it could be easily adjusted for any political or social purpose whatsoever.