rejects David Cameron's online porn filter plan.
One of David Cameron's most high-profile celebrity advisers has
branded the Prime Minister's plan to restrict online porn as "an
absolutely ridiculous idea that won't work."
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, was asked about the plans for
web users to opt-in to receive adult content, and otherwise be
blocked.
Warning that access to online pornography is "corroding childhood" the
Prime Minister said internet service providers will ask users who open
new contract whether they want to activate filters which restrict
adult material.
Without an answer either way, the filters will be activated by default.
Mr Wales told Channel 4 News: "When Cameron uses the example of
paedophiles who are addicted to internet porn – all that these plans
would do is require them to opt in. It's an absolutely ridiculous idea
that won't work."
He said that - given more money - police could use existing
legislation to battle the problem.
Turning to the revelations about the US National Security Agency's
trawl of web use data, Wales decried that "billions had been wasted
shopping on ordinary people's data in a fruitless search for
terrorists".
He said: "We should be devoting a significant proportion of that to
dealing with the real criminal issues online, stealing credit card
numbers, hacking into sites ... that is going to take an investment in
real, solid police work.
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