It’s time Britain had the porn conversation

Janice Turner writes at Times Online: “For the past decade the default setting for pornography — into our homes, on to our screens and newstands, into the mainstream of our culture — has been ‘on’. And parents were expected to guard their children from a tide of imagery. But how? We could faddle with Google settings, frown over screening software, which is quickly overridden by faster, more techno-literate young minds. We could, as advised, stand vigil over the household PC. But why are we lumbered with this grave yet impossible task? (What about parents who were too busy?) Why, if the Government believed that children should be protected, did it not come to our aid? Why did it not set the nation’s porn default setting to ‘off’?”