Earlier this week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced a new campaign to prevent British children from accessing pornography online.
In an announcement made at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children London headquarters, Cameron discussed the new campaign, which will require Internet providers to filter pornographic images as a default setting (while giving Internet users the ability to “opt-out” in order to view pornographic images).
"I'm not making this speech because I want to moralize or scaremonger but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come," Cameron explained. "This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence."
"We will give CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) and the police all the powers they need to keep pace with the changing nature of the Internet," he added.
"And today I can announce that from next year, we will also link up existing fragmented databases across all the police forces to produce a single secure database of illegal images of children which will help police in different parts of the country work together more effectively to close the net on pedophiles.
In further explanation, Cameron touched on the need to protect children from adult experiences.
"Children can't go into the shops or the cinema and buy things meant for adults or have adult experiences; we rightly regulate to protect them," Cameron said.
"But when it comes to the Internet in the balance between freedom and responsibility, we have neglected our responsibility to our children. My argument is that the Internet is not a sideline to 'real life' or an escape from 'real life;' it is real life."
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