The guy really does define "moron" doesn't he ?
Jeremy Hunt: Telcos must block teens from sexting each other
The likes of Facebook must stop under-18s from sending each other sexually explicit pictures, UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told a Parliamentary committee. Giving evidence to the Health Select Committee about suicide prevention yesterday, Hunt demanded that social media companies must take responsibility for stopping …
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 19:11 GMT VinceH
Re: Jeremy Hunt
"It's only a Freudian slip if it's inappropriate, which is not so in this case."
I think you'll find it's a Freudian slip if it's appropriate rather than inappropriate, or more precisely reveals what you really think. i.e. if people think he's a berk, and accidentally call him Jeremy Berk instead of Jeremy Hunt.
We don't know if that's what those who have accidentally mispronounced the H as a C really think, though. We can only speculate.
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 19:53 GMT JLV
Re: Jeremy Hunt
Perhaps he could even change his first name to Mike to make it more obvious.
How much money would be spent, for what benefit? This from a supposedly right-of-center government?
I do favor tough punishments in cases where someone does revenge or blackmail porn. Including when minors do it to other minors.
But that's not the same thing as putting up huge guardrails at great cost to protect people from their own stupidity, is it?
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Monday 5th December 2016 18:19 GMT Dave 15
Re: Jeremy Hunt
The people who will benefit are almost certainly offshore software houses who will charge billions for failing (like they did with the nhs system). The fact that many of the MPs best friends have shares in these companies is purely coincidental and doesnt need declaring to anyone... anymore than the thankyou christmas presents that just by coincidence include massively expensive family holidays etc.
Corrupt... you bet, just better hidden than most third world dictatorships
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Thursday 1st December 2016 15:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
I was at the Doctors Surgery yesterday and I said I felt sorry for them having JH as their Minister/Secretary of State for Health. I pointed out what a wonderful person he'd been at the DCMS and how well his vanity project the Local TV stations* were doing**. I was only able to have a blood sample taken after we'd both stopped laughing.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Local_television_channels_in_the_United_Kingdom
**https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/09/london-live-local-content-channel-4-5-ofcom
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 12:32 GMT Anonymous Coward
Presumably this is more "think of the children" stuff to justify extending compulsory age verification from the porn sites used to justify the law to now include social networks. And what could possibly be wrong with forcing Facebook et al to semantically scan every message posted, in case one of those teens tries to write something dirty?
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 12:54 GMT Just Enough
Re: What planet do these people live on?
This has nothing to do with how the modern world works. This is how teenagers work, and have done since forever. And idiots like Hunt have always been trying, and failing, to change this.
Quite simply the government cannot legislate the removal of hormones from teenagers. Just like you cannot tell them that their body is illegal, they do not own their phone's camera, and they cannot be doing anything with either without the government's permission.
Apart from that, I can think of a good half dozen ways that this could be easily circumvented. Even if the tech was foolproof, which it isn't.
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 13:23 GMT Dan 55
Re: What planet do these people live on?
How can you take on a position of power/responsibility and not have a clue about how the modern world around you actually works?
By studying PPE at Oxford university and joining the Oxford University Conservative Association, along with Bojo and Cameron.
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 13:42 GMT Cynical Observer
Re: What planet do these people live on?
@Dan 55
By studying PPE at Oxford university and joining the Oxford University Conservative Association*, along with Bojo and Cameron.
*Other political parties are available - Labour,New Labour and the Lib Dems have a fair smattering of candidates as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_people_with_PPE_degrees
Imagine being as radical as Canada and appointing cabinet members who have some real life experience in the subject that thy are responsible for e.g. Farmers in agriculture, Lawyers in Justice and an academic as Minister of Science......
And you do have to smile at the logic behind choice of Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness. He was a Queens Scout.
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Tuesday 6th December 2016 10:52 GMT Dave 15
Re: What planet do these people live on?
Its all about the old boys network.
Sure you are only 40 but we will give you a job running an international bank because you are 'so experienced'... ooh, you sunk the bank? Never mind, now you have even more experience (and a huge pension pot) why not let us put you in charge of a retail chemist chain... obviously the experience is relevant! Similar occurs at the top of government.
But try this...
I have 20 years coding and 15 years project managing secure, embedded consumer product.... but try getting a job in a bank... ooh no, you have no experience in banking, or perhaps in defense... ooh no, no experience in defense... (yeah, but I did get my degree from the military...)
Yup, one rule for the old boys and another for the rest of us scum
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 19:43 GMT Brewster's Angle Grinder
Re: "Because there is technology that can identify sexually explicit pictures "
"No there isn't"
Oh there is. The false positives are through the roof. The false negatives, likewise. But it does occasionally permit a legitimate image or block an explicit one.
Mine's the one with the pocket full of training images for my smut filter, thanks.
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Wednesday 30th November 2016 13:44 GMT nichomach
Re: This country
The Lib-Dems speak sense until someone gives them a sniff of actual power, at which point they throw sense out of the window and fall into line with whoever's wafting it their way - witness the government we have now, which they are *directly* responsible for. Pointless bunch of oxygen thieves.