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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.
> Given the emotional nature of the issue I took it for granted before posting that I would be modded down into flamebait hell.
If your goal is to be "modded down into flamebait hell", I'd say that you are doing a pretty shoddy job.
That said, the difference between insightful and flamebait is smaller than you'd think.
> S'alright. I am content with the quality of my "enemies."
Your "enemies" are less likely to see your comments and subsequently mod you down.
On the other hand, I believe that the moderation system is about visibility. I will mod up comments that, IMO, deserve to be seen by a broad audience and mod down those that I believe are better go unnoticed. To maximize the effectiveness of my "vote", I usually don't mod up comments that already reached the score of 3 or above and, since I often forget that the score is influenced by "friend" status, the chance of me modding you up is low...