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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.

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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.

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