Lets Sum It Up What
Adult Censorship In The UK Means For You.
Adult sites and other sites that contain adult content e.g. gfy.com and other webmaster boards, deviantart, 4chan, most of sites that have user created content will get inaccessible in probably over 90% places with public internet access (all public hotspots, hotels and other accommodation, well everywhere just you name it).
People in order to access that sites in their own private homes will have to contact their internet providers and ask for opting out. Your name may end on some list, your family and friends will get to know that you have opted out. Some people will opt out but some will not.
Less quality visitors (English speaking with money and credit cards - 63 millions officially but probably much more and even not counting people temporally visiting the UK) to all your sites which is equal to less money. Check your traffic and sales stats in order to get an idea what kind of percentage it is. Why? And why I’m sure about it? Just think about it.
People who not opted out will seek other ways or sites that will pop up even with filter on.
This will be rogue sites that popped just yesterday and were not yet added to the list with your stolen content to watch for free. Other ways may include p2p, torrents, buying pirated dvds or borrowing these dvds from friends.
Happy and stupid parents will think the job is done for them while their kids will find the way by using proxies, p2p exchanges and many other ways (but the people who came with this stupidity censorship had no idea about how the web function so they will just blame it on others as usual) This filter will not safe any kids from seeing porn. Only parents and schools may do it by installing appropriate software on their computers and supervising their pupils which is the only right and reliable way to do it.
So what it means for you as a surfer... not much unless you're located in the UK or you're visiting the UK then it's just a more hassle to access your sites, of course you will opt out in your own home but accessing your daily stuff (I don’t even mean here porn, but your affiliate stats, your forums, news sites etc) in public places will get tricky and it will slow you down.
What is the biggest danger of this? I think it's that this might be the beginning of restrictions and more may follow, they will create various blacklists and more filters that may have no option to opt out. Other countries may follow the trend once they see the way. And it's not what society wants but we know they once elected don't care anymore about what common people want.
What can be done? 1st step I guess would be to say NO to this stupidity by gathering 100 000 votes under the opposing petition, put the link to the petition in visible place on your site with a note explaining what will happen to your visitors from UK once this will go live.
It costs you nothing to put that link up for a few days on your site, does it?
https://submissions.epetitions.direc...etitions/51746 <-
The Link To The Petition.
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1116449
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1116439
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1116070
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1116330
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1116199
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...United_Kingdom
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...web-users.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...line-porn.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-8726991.html