EU Proposal Would Encourage Web Users To Flag Suspicious Web Pages

littlekorea writes "Web surfers in Europe might soon be asked to 'flag' for law enforcement follow-up any web content they suspect incites terrorism, under an plan a group of EU governments has put to the internet industry. The plan asks for ISPs, search engines, web hosts and everyday users to play a larger role in identifying suspect content. Google already has a similar feature on YouTube — will we see it in the browser?"

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This Already Exists (sort of)

[IonOtter]

Web of Trust already provides a very valuable service in flagging suspect and malicious websites. It's a mix of both automated systems and user input.

Very useful, very effective and very easy. The only thing it "lacks" is the ability to report something to the "authorities", but I don't consider that to be a fault.