This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Get the new website Respect Yourself shut down to protect our youth
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The new website Respect Yourself is a website that promotes underage sex, watching online pornography, and also promotes the idea to young people that nothing about sex is normal, so anything goes. This website should be shut down as it does not promote morality, or a good, healthy approach to sex, and in a country where we are trying to educate our youth about not getting pregnant in their youth, and promoting sexual wellbeing, this website promotes activities that are counter productive and other means should be made available to our youth.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
The vast majority of the UK ISP industry takes a responsible approach to what content it hosts, both of its own volition and in co-operation with law enforcement and Government agencies. Where the industry is advised that content they host contravenes legislation, they will readily remove it. In addition, ISPs have contracts with their customers called good practice Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs), which they have recently strengthened, about what may be hosted on their servers.
Complaints about a particular website’s content should first be directed to the site’s manager. Most AUPs already contain a general clause which allows ISPs to remove sites or content which contain offensive or objectionable material, even if it is not illegal. Arrangements similar to AUPs apply to many websites, including social networking sites. Those people, who find user content offensive or suspect, therefore should report their concerns to the appropriate social network site.
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