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BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits A Day
jb.hl.com writes "The BBC is reporting that British Telecom, the predominant telecommunications company in the UK, is blocking 10,000 attempts to access child pornography a day. In the first three weeks of the system being operational, BT allegedly blocked 250,000 attempts to view such pages. They apparently have no idea how many of these hits were accidental, or caused by malware. The block affects 2.5m of BT's customers. Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT Retail, said with regards to privacy concerns that "we don't know their motives or who does it and honestly we don't want to know"." onion2k reminds us that we first mentioned the block in June.
No....the sites blocked are specifically child porn sites.
They've been seen by the Internet Watch Foundation and classified.
Home Office minister Paul Goggins said the figures revealed by BT were "deeply shocking" and he said he hoped other service providers would take up the offer of using BT's blocking technology.
He told the Today programme: "Every image of a child that appears on the internet is an image of a child that's abused."
See? It's not just America that's governed by idiots.
Duuuuh. They classified them as child porn because they were illegal to look at under UK Law. It is legal in the UK to look at medical sites obviously. The sites looked at are definitly illegal to look at. The IWF know child porn because it's their job to stop it.
Roll on 2007. :)
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Don't worry. We'll have ID cards soon, then everything will be fine again.