Children's charities lobby to protect kids from online porn In the study, 77 per cent of those interviewed said they felt it was very/quite easy for under-18s to access hardcore porn on the internet and 88 per cent said they felt it very/quite important that regulatory steps are taken to prevent such access. This issue has come to the fore following a number of high profile cases in the media and is clearly a very important issue that concerns many people. Not only has access to pornography become easier with the arrival of the Internet, the materials themselves have also become more extreme and more specialist," said co-organiser Julia Hörnle, a Professor of Internet Law at Queen Mary University of London. "The government's "Active Choice" filtering system for home internet access is part of the jigsaw of measures, but will not entirely solve the problem; filters are notoriously inaccurate, and it's counterproductive to just to rely on technology alone without other measures such as educating parents and children, co-operation with payment providers, the government and adult industry. We are only now beginning to climb this mountain. Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron announced an agreement with internet service providers on new filters that would block access to online pornography - unless customers explicitly opted in to accessing them. A joint British and American "task force" will be created to tackle obscene websites, while Google and other search engine providers will be required to draw up a "blacklist" of the most depraved and illegal search terms, the Prime Minister said. "Online pornography is corroding childhood," he said. In the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out. I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. However, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and advisor to the government on internet strategy, dismissed the plans to block pornographic sites as "absolutely ridiculous," adding that the software needed to implement such a strategy doesn't work.