No, I'm afraid you don't understand it. What Cameron proposes is perfectly do-able if you have a) billions of pounds b) physical access to the submarine cables and c) buy your computing power by the acre. GCHQ ticks all those boxes. The people saying "haha I'll use a VPN" are the ones who don't "get" it.
The thing I take issue with is that the government DOESN'T have billions of pounds. This is a government of austerity that consistently derides the previous government of stupid spending. They take any opportunity of insulting Labour about how their bad spending habits have ruined our economy yet then want to fund something as stupid as this?
Kids will see porno, whether its blocked of not. It's the same as people being able to download torrents after the pirate bay was blocked or making drugs illegal doesn't stop people getting drugs.
This is a deeper issue that can't be solved by closing off parts of the Internet. We need to improve society in general, not make it harder for the people who want to seek this sort of thing out.
I don't believe Cameron is proposing the Govt to foot the bill and/or to host the equipment; that will be foisted upon ISPs. Having said that some influential companies and government departments will benefit from said structure.
Thanks for clarifying that, this makes it easier to stomach.
There will still be a large expenditure on the side of the government, as is with most things in government. Such e penditure would be best spend influencing innovation and business, not requiring a sector to implement mandatory technology which probably has large costs.
It seems like the consumer will really foot the bill here. It seems a lot of decisions are made which cause the average joe to spend less, which isn't great for the economy.
