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Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse

Posted by samzenpus on from the making-it-stop dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook, Google, and Twitter are teaming up with the UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to share hash lists of blocked indecent images. The move is intended to ensure that a picture pulled from one site can't show up again elsewhere. The BBC reports: "Online security specialists welcomed the move as a positive step, but said it would not block content on the 'darknet' — a network with restricted access — where abusers often posted images."

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  1. Re:Justice system by AJWM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We don't find people filming murders for sexual gratification. If that were the case, then that could very well become illegal too.

    Although fake kiddie porn is just as illegal as the real thing, filming fake murders for others' gratification (hopefully not sexual, but who knows) is big business. Hollywood makes billions on it. Ditto first-person shooter games.

    Something is screwed up somewhere.

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    -- Alastair