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I'm annoyed that all the attention is now directed at Cameron as if this whole thing was his idea. It isn't!

The Daily Mail have been running a very vocal anti-porn campaign for the last 2 years (at least). Forget child-porn, the Daily Mail have taken it upon themselves to rid the country of every sort of porn imaginable and have proceeded to flood the public concious with their weekly anti-porn propaganda.

The funny thing is, when they first started doing this, nobody took a blind bit of notice, the tone of comments on their earlier articles met the subject with bemusement. What's even more surprising however, is that still nobody cares! Read the comments on the most recent DM anti-porn articles and it's clear they're not fooling anybody. So why are they pushing ahead with this agenda?

The blocking of porn (opt-in or opt-out) is not the issue here. It's that we're letting our laws and policies be dictated to us by the gutter press! And that it's working!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/search.html?searchPhrase=por...

This is the same daily mail which regularly features almost pornographic images of children as well right next to their "kill all pedo's" articles.

The reason the DM is like it is stems from the fact that this country is full of vile moronic excuses for humans that will mindlessly buy and promote the shite that spews out of the mouths of that paper's writers (if you can call them that).

The politicians like these sort of people a they're easy to manipulate into voting for them.

Edit: apparently there was a nazi equivalent! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%C3%BCrmer

You must be looking for, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

More 'laugh at Daily Mail readers' fodder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA

Good find. Charlie Brooker is the only public voice of reason I've seen in the UK media. His work is hilarious and thought provoking and nothing in between.

Also responsible for some of the best television of the year so far (related): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSc2nTYUGI

Agreed! Definitely one of the best things I've seen for a long time.

To put a very fine point on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dqNTTdYKY

The Daily Mail is quite reprehensible.

It's probably because the Daily Mail is a newspaper. David Cameron is a prime minister. Those are two completely different things. A newspaper can sit and rant all it wants and be ignored[1] but if an MP/PM says they want to block porn, far more people take notice, likely because it can actually be enacted.

[1] Especially if it's the Daily Mail, a crazy, backwards newspaper nobody takes seriously.

But Cameron is just doing this because the Daily Mail have whipped up such a storm. He even credits them with being responsible for this issue...

‘The Daily Mail has campaigned hard to make internet search engine filters “default on”. Today they can declare that campaign a success,’ Mr Cameron said.

Source taken from a bizarrely self-congratualtory DM article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372833/Net-porn-blo...

When I viewed this article last night the "Sidebar of Shame" had an article about one of the Kardashians babies wearing a string bikini, of course they were outraged "Is this appropriate?" but that didn't stop them publishing it.

Bunch of utter hypocrites

Unfortunately the Daily Mail is one of the most read newspapers in the U.K.

How the D.M gets away with preaching about this kind of thing baffles me though, especially because of their "side-bar of shame"

Maybe you preach about it so no-one attacks your "sidebar"?

To me this OTT response from the leadership is a sign that moral conservatives are dying off and fiscal conservatives are not replacing them.

I had to read your reply a few times. I thought you were accusing me of having my own sidebar of shame.

So you think the Daily Mail tactic is kinda like, Hide in plain sight?

Sorry, I was not talking about your own sidebar... nobody knows about yours... it is our secret :).

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DM has been receiving some flack from their readers for it (the sidebar) so I suspect they are trying to make up for it but ultimately knowing it draws eyeballs.

If you think that this policy is not from Whitehall, but was drawn up by a newspaper with a circulation equivalent to ~3% of the UK population and then forced upon an unwilling Prime Minister, then surely that actually paints Cameron in an even worse light.

Unfortunately, the Daily Mail is very influential - their demographic fits extremely closely to the membership of the Conservative party.

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