The Daily Mail claims that 66% the public back its campaign for a default block of adult content on internet websites.
A poll by YouGov found that 66% of the people they surveyed support calls for ISPs to block pornographic sites from homes by default. Just 22% opposed the idea.
However it seems that the Daily Mail have got somewhat confused about the stupid ‘opt in’/'opt out’ tags
See YouGov Poll Results [pdf] from d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net
Last question:
Some people think that customers should have to choose to have their internet service filtered (an opt-in service), other people think that internet services should all be filtered unless customers ask for their service to be unfiltered (an opt-out service)
- Opt-in (someone’s internet service should only be filtered if they ask for it) 57% in support
- Opt-out (people’s internet service should be filtered unless they ask for it not to be) 36% in support
- Don’t know 8%
In fact the majority polled support the option for internet blocking, not that it should be imposed by default
