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Regulating Pornography in the
Internet Age
\u2022The Internet is not a censor-free zone.

\u2022There are two main forms of censorship:
Blocking access to websites.
Surveillance of Internet users.

\u2022Both are used in the UK.
Socialisation of Globally Sexually Explicit Imagery: Challenges to Regulation and
Research, Leeds University, 15-16 June 2009.
The Will to Censor in the UK

Department of Culture, Media and
Sport/Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform evidence to the DCMS
Select Committee 2008 Enquiry into harmful
content on the Internet and in video games:

\u2018as a general rule, and with exceptions for
material that is illegal, simply unacceptable or
can be demonstrated to cause harm, we support
the principle that adults should be free to choose
what websites they access or what computer
games they play\u2019.

The Will to Censor in the UK

\u2022In October 2003, Ofcom chairman David
Currie noted that the Communications Act
2003 doesn\u2019t mention the Internet,
because Parliament thought that \u2018the
Internet was still so new and its
implications so uncertain that a period of
legislative forbearance was called for\u2019. He
added: \u2018ask most legislators today and,
where they think about it, they will say that
period is coming to an end\u2019.

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