BT Seeks to Block Child Porn Site Access

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BT to block child porn site

BT to block child porn site 06/07/2004 07:05 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 7 2004 10:34PM GMT

BT to block access to websites carrying
child porn

BT to block access to websites carrying
child porn 06/07/2004 07:14 AM
Computer Buyer Jun 7 2004 11:51AM GMT

BT Group to Block Access to Child Porn
Web Sites (Reuters)

BT Group to Block Access to Child Porn
Web Sites (Reuters) 06/07/2004 08:51 AM
Reuters - Web sites carrying pornographic images of children will be off-limits to BT Group's one million broadband Internet customers, Britain's telecoms giant said on Monday.

BT To Block Child Porn - But Who Makes
The List?

BT To Block Child Porn - But Who Makes
The List? 06/07/2004 02:39 AM
Lots of folks are talking about the decision by BT to b lock access to child porn and how this is the "first mass censorship of the web attempted in a Western democracy." Actually, that's not true at all. Pennsylvania has been forcing ISPs to do this for years. While most of the Guardian article above focuses on how it's now technically feasible to do so, it doesn't really get into the reasons why this is problematic. First, it's unclear who gets to make up the list, and how they decide what's "bad" and what's acceptable. The article mentions a list, but it's not clear that's the list that BT will use - or if there's any kind of appeal procedure for sites that have been unfairly blocked. It's also not clear if (as in Pennsylvania) blocking a site that's on a shared server will mean every other site on that server will also get blocked. The article talks up how this was an idea by NCH, the children's charity who has a habit of putting out very biased and very misleading studies trying to blame child porn on everyone but the people actually creating and hosting the child porn. This is yet another effort by them to try to hide away the problem, rather than dealing with its root causes.

Law to block child porn online thrown
out

Law to block child porn online thrown
out 09/10/2004 03:00 PM
MSNBC Sep 10 2004 5:45PM GMT

U.S. Judge Rejects Law to Block Child
Porn on Web (Reuters)

U.S. Judge Rejects Law to Block Child
Porn on Web (Reuters) 09/10/2004 06:27 PM
Reuters - A Pennsylvania law allowing the state to force Internet service providers to block access to child pornography sites is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | BT puts
block on child porn sites

Guardian Unlimited | Online | BT puts
block on child porn sites 06/07/2004 06:03 AM
British Telecom puts block on child porn sites .. Guardian Unlimited

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Groups call state's effort to block
Internet child porn a failure

Groups call state's effort to block
Internet child porn a failure 06/23/2004 08:43 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jun 24 2004 0:01AM GMT

ACLU Seeks Pa. Child Porn Law Reversal

ACLU Seeks Pa. Child Porn Law Reversal 01/07/2004 02:03 PM
AP via Daily Press Jan 7 2004 12:19PM ET

BT blocks consumer access to child porn

BT blocks consumer access to child porn 06/07/2004 01:54 PM
ZDNet UK Jun 7 2004 6:09PM GMT

BT blocking Internet child porn access

BT blocking Internet child porn access 06/08/2004 10:21 AM
Prosperity4 Jun 8 2004 1:59PM GMT

Access to internet child porn rampant

Access to internet child porn rampant 07/20/2004 07:38 AM
ONE News Jul 20 2004 11:36AM GMT

BT blocks 230k attempts to access child
porn

BT blocks 230k attempts to access child
porn 07/20/2004 06:31 AM
'Taken aback by scale of problem'

British Telecom Blocks Access to Child
Porn Sites

British Telecom Blocks Access to Child
Porn Sites 06/06/2004 08:21 AM

BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits
A Day

BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits
A Day 07/20/2004 06:23 AM

Child porn site blocks supported

Child porn site blocks supported 03/19/2005 03:23 AM
Most UK adults would like net service providers to track and report visitors to child porn sites, says a poll.

Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican
child-porn recruitment site

Blog-detectives tackle suspected Mexican
child-porn recruitment site 07/24/2004 06:10 PM
Eduardo Arcos, editor of the Spanish-language blog ALT1040, is conducting an online investigation into a website suspected of recruiting teenage girls in Mexico for child porn. He's soliciting help from other bloggers, and using the "comment" feature in his blog as a way to exchange info with concerned citizens throughout the blogosphere. Together they're collecting data, with the apparent goal of revealing who's behind the suspect site -- and seeing to it that appropriate action is taken to protect potential victims. Here's my clunky attempt at translating Arcos' summary post:

A site called TV-whores with a theme and intentions that are very clear, contains the following text: Girls from 13 - 19 years of age: earn thousands of pesos simply by taking photographs. More information here. (...)

The page in question offers thousands of pesos to 13-19-year-old girls for taking digital photos. You don't have to be naked, you can be in a bikini or underwear, it says... but it's more than suspicious."

Link (in Spanish)

US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

BT to block child pornography

BT to block child pornography 06/07/2004 07:20 AM
Technology trials to begin shortly

Call to block child gambling online

Call to block child gambling online 07/26/2004 10:57 PM
Society.guardian.co.uk - Tue Jul 27, 02:32 am GMT

Norway to Block Child Pornography Sites

Norway to Block Child Pornography Sites 09/21/2004 12:53 PM
AP via Daily Press Sep 21 2004 4:44PM GMT

Australia Wants ISPs To Block Porn

Australia Wants ISPs To Block Porn 08/17/2004 01:29 PM
Add some members of the Australian government to the group of politicians who seem to think that secretive filters at the ISP level are the solution to porn. They're recommending that ISPs be responsible for blocking certain hardcore porn. The reason for the recommendation appears to be the realization that regulation isn't working. However, they seem to immediately assume that filtering will work, ignoring plenty of historical evidence that it doesn't. Even worse, filtering at the ISP level has often been shown to block perfectly legitimate sites. Since the details of what sites are being filtered are always kept secret, there's often no way for anyone to know if legitimate sites are included in the block. Those behind this plan claim this plan "is a proposal that has merit because it gets to the problem at the source and it would make it much harder for the industry to duck responsibility." There are plenty of problems with that statement. First, this plan is exactly the opposite of getting at "the source" of the problem. It's clearly focused on getting at the problem in the middle -- the ISP, who has nothing to do with the porn itself. If they really want to get "at the source" of the problem, they should go after those who are putting illegal porn online. Second, to suggest that it's the ISPs' "responsibility" is again backwards. The ISPs are simply a service, and requiring them to set up a system to filter all content through their service isn't a responsibility, it's a pointless burden that will add expense without doing much to stop the real problem. If the government wanted to go after the real source of the problem, they'd go after those truly responsible for the problem -- not the folks in the middle who are simply transporting bits.

It may be up to parents to block Web
porn (USATODAY.com)

It may be up to parents to block Web
porn (USATODAY.com) 06/30/2004 06:09 AM
USATODAY.com - For years, Congress has sought what amounts to a legislative Holy Grail: A law that would protect children from Internet pornography, stay relevant in the face of evolving technology, and not be too much of a restriction for adults who want to exercise their constitutional right to view sexually explicit materials.

Justices block Internet porn law

Justices block Internet porn law 06/29/2004 10:47 AM

IBM seeks to block lawsuit by Gypsies

IBM seeks to block lawsuit by Gypsies 09/03/2004 10:31 AM
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - IBM Corp. has moved to block a lawsuit by a group of European Gypsies for allegedly allowing its punch-card machines to be used by World War II Nazis to commit genocide more efficiently.

Legislator seeks to block Gmail

Legislator seeks to block Gmail 04/22/2004 08:00 PM
ZDNet Apr 23 2004 0:46AM GMT

Senator seeks to block Gmail

Senator seeks to block Gmail 04/22/2004 06:40 PM
A California Democrat blasts Google's free e-mail service as an invasion of privacy and "a direct marketing opportunity" for the company.

Kenya Seeks Help To Block Epidemic

Kenya Seeks Help To Block Epidemic 03/31/2005 12:15 AM
Sci-Tech Today Mar 31 2005 4:04AM GMT

P2P Against Child Porn

P2P Against Child Porn 05/06/2004 01:32 AM
Last year, when other attacks against peer-to-peer file sharing systems weren't working, the entertainment industry pulled out the "porn" card, saying that the file sharing networks were chock full of child porn and it was a danger to anyone using it. Of course, you could say the same thing about the internet, but all the hype even convinced Senator Hatch to push legislation against P2P networks due to all that porn. Realizing that they had something of a PR problem on this issue, it appears the various P2P networks decided to team up and do something to show how they're actually helping to catch child pornographers. They've been working with the FBI to help them track down those responsible for child porn, and are now looking at setting up a system to let users flag child porn so that the networks (and the FBI) can track it down (though, you wonder how quickly that flag will be abused: don't like a song? call it child porn). Finally, in a move that's much more about the good publicity it can generate than actually catching pornographers, they're going to start posting pictures from the FBI's most wanted list of child pornographers on their websites.

Supreme Court Upholds Web Porn Law Block
(AP)

Supreme Court Upholds Web Porn Law Block
(AP) 06/30/2004 04:57 AM
AP - The Supreme Court blocked a law meant to shield Web-surfing children from dirty pictures and online come-ons, ruling Tuesday that the law also would cramp the free speech rights of adults to see and buy what they want on the Internet.

High Court Upholds Block of Web Porn Law

High Court Upholds Block of Web Porn Law 06/29/2004 03:19 PM
Los Angeles Times Jun 29 2004 6:07PM GMT

High Court Upholds Block of Web Porn Law
(AP)

High Court Upholds Block of Web Porn Law
(AP) 06/29/2004 10:30 AM
AP - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law meant to punish pornographers who peddle dirty pictures to Web-surfing kids is probably an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech.

Court upholds block of Internet porn law

Court upholds block of Internet porn law 06/30/2004 04:42 AM
Newsobserver.com - Wed Jun 30, 09:33 am GMT

Yahoo Seeks to Block Spam and Phishers

Yahoo Seeks to Block Spam and Phishers 05/19/2004 03:16 AM
FinancialWire May 19 2004 6:54AM GMT

BT on child porn stats

BT on child porn stats 07/22/2004 06:25 AM
Replies to ISPA's concerns

Supreme Court Upholds Block of Internet
Porn Law

Supreme Court Upholds Block of Internet
Porn Law 06/29/2004 05:05 PM
Red Nova Jun 29 2004 9:12PM GMT

Justices Uphold Block of Web Porn Law
but Sends Case Back

Justices Uphold Block of Web Porn Law
but Sends Case Back 06/29/2004 12:13 PM
New York Times Jun 29 2004 3:54PM GMT

Justices Uphold Block of Web Porn Law
but Send Case Back

Justices Uphold Block of Web Porn Law
but Send Case Back 06/29/2004 02:10 PM
The high court again moved to limit the government's efforts to shield minors from pornography on the Internet, saying that a law violates the First Amendment.

UK probe into online child porn

UK probe into online child porn 06/09/2004 12:53 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Tue Jun 8, 11:28 am GMT
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