Block porn Campaign - "Historical Timeline"
28 March 2012: Baroness Howe of Idlicote introduced a Bill in the House of Lords on Wednesday 28th March 2012 promoting online safety.
The Bill requires Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Mobile Phone Operators (MPOs) to provide a service that excludes pornographic images unless the customer is 18 or over and deliberately opts-in to accessing pornography.
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18 October 2011 : Inquiry Panel met with the ISPs
11 October 2011 : Announcement by ISPs on Internet Porn is a Good First Step
8 September 2011: Inquiry begins
23 Aug 2011 : Claire Perry MP launches Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection
A cross-party group of more than sixty Members of the Houses of Parliament announced the formation of a Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection in August 2011. The Inquiry has been taking evidence from parents, child protection experts, Internet experts and Chief Executives of many of Britain's largest Internet Service Providers. It will report to Ministers in February 2012.
You can write to your MP asking them to support Claire Perry's campaign using the template letter here
Check to see if your MP is already one of the group of sixty MPs by clicking here
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July 2011 : Culture Secretary, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, is backing the 'opt in' initiative and says, 'We are telling people that if they do not cooperate in bringing forward measures that will deal with this issue fast, we will legislate and regulate.' The ISPs have until the autumn to adopt a workable plan.
20 June 2011: the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) held a Parliamentary Advisory Forum in the House of Commons, hosted by Claire Perry MP, at which the Minister spoke. Safermedia attended and were able to put our points of view across.
16 June 2011 : Ed Vaizey held a Briefing for supportive MPs. Letters from Safermedia supporters and other organisations drew all-party support from more than 60 MPs, 30 of whom attended the Briefing.
- 3rd stage of Safermedia's campaign a letter writing campaign to MPs
18 May 2011 : Mr Vaizey held a second round table meeting with the ISPs.
16 May 2011 : Safermedia, with mediawatch-uk, held a publicity event outside BT HQ in London. 10 foot high letters were erected, spelling STOP PORN, and Claire Perry MP spoke to two BT executives.
- 2nd stage of Safermedia's campaign was launched: a letter campaign to the ISPs urging them to adopt the 'opt in' initiative.
7 February 2011: armed with over 1000 emails of support from the public, Ed Vaizey met with the major British ISPs and other stakeholders to discuss blocking pornography. The ISPs went away to look at the technical side of implementation.
2/3 February 2011: A YouGov Poll found that 83% thought seeing pornographic content on the internet was damaging children.
2010
26 December 2010: Safermedia's Open Letter published in the Sunday Times
27 November 2010: Claire Perry MP held an Adjournment Debate in Parliament, calling for ISP-level anti-porn filters.
26 November 2010: Safermedia's Conference in Parliament, 'The Harm that Pornography Does'
