Digital Economy Bill: MPs to greenlight ISP porn blocking plan

"Twitter, Facebook-based porn is much tougher technical nut to crack," admits minister.

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But Hancock claimed that news reports had "misread the bill," adding that it was "neither our intention nor our understanding of the working of these amendments."

Neither your intention nor your understanding mater. What's important is how the courts interpret the language.

Technically, in the event that a law as written is ambiguous, one of the things a common-law court can take into account when interpreting it is the stated intent of the legislators who pushed it through. Of course, when the law clearly says "pi is equal to four", a legislator pleading on the record that they have no intention to make teaching mathematics impossible isn't going to make much difference.