I normally ignore all of the stuff that goes on in this section, but this is different.
It is basically the idea that they can stop us from accessing cirtian stuff, it happens occasionally with other sites (for example the FBI blocked MegaUpload) but a blanket filter like this will be bad. As stated in the news report you linked, their is also the question of how to clasfie what should and should not be blocked. When it comes down to this, will it be voted by comity, or will it possibly be a program used to filter stuff, I am not sure.
As mentuned by xtc that school internet comes through the local councle and is restricted at the concle. Well my school which I just left changed their provider to a private provider and implemented their own internet filter instead, which was a move in the right direction as the concle bans were very stupid most of the time.
The new filter school put into place did block web address but it also done a word filter, so if the webpage included x amount of this 1 banned word then it would be blocked instead. This system works good on paper, but in pradice is horrible, lets say your googling something.... some strange sites sometimes appear, and these could mean you cant see your results.
So then they are going to block it with an opt in system at first, changing it to opt out at the end of the year, well why not still make it a opt in at the end of the year... how hard is it to add a new option to the forms when you apply for internet saying 'do you want mature content blocked?' or something like that, allowing new people to not have to contact their ISP later to tell them to remove the filter. Either that, or possible a piece of free software could be given to the customer when they join, allowing them to set stuff that is blocked and stuff like that, set keywords maybe to be blocked, and most importantly be password protected and have some default settings to chose from. This way you put in place the protection yet you make it complacently opt in and editable.
And this, this works fine for the internet, is anything going to change about the sexual nature of a lot of TV shows that are shown in the UK? It is pointless only changing 1 media when you got stuff like James Bond or even a lot of TV adverts (for example perfume adverts) which shows sexual nature (but not the sex) which can be as damaging to young children.
"[We are] making it a criminal offense to possess Internet pornography that depicts rape."
And now for the main one that might affect a lot of people in ways that they don't want. Lets say that a couple likes to do a little role play and stuff, but for their enjoyment they document it a bit or something, something that leaves a digital trace. Will this possibly get them into trouble if under the digression of the police they say it is rape. Or what if they brake up and one of them claims it was rape and their is pictures of it, this could get innocent people prosecuted for not doing anything wrong.