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

Posted by timothy on from the potential-abuse-and-actual-abuse dept.

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.

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  1. In other news... by Rylfaeth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pete Townshend got pissed and threw his computer out the window! The Sun is there!

    -Rylfaeth

  2. Why block child pr0n ? by Quazion · · Score: 0, Troll

    I understand that its illegal and not moral to watch, but still it seems like sertain people have an urge for it. Tons have been produced over the years over the backs of poor children. I suggest that we collect all childporn, make it public available so that no new childporn has to be produced, since sure there is enough for some sickfolks to jerk of everyday at a new picture, not ?

    I dont think this will increase the abuse of children for sex, nor decrease, but maybe it wont be commercialy intresting anymore. There is no way we can stop how humans feel and act, we just have to find a good way to deal with it. Blocking it isnt the way nor is locking up people who look at it, just get rid of the demand by overflooding the market with cheap shots...