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Group Reveals There Are Ways To Fight Child Porn Other Than Useless Web Filters

View the article here 03/05/2009 from the progress,-perhaps dept There has been something of a stink made in the UK after some children's charities complained that some ISPs weren't implementing web filters designed to stop people from accessing child pornography. While trying to stop child porn is certainly an admirable cause, the problem here is twofold: first, the filters simply don't work, and often do more to block access to legitimate content than to stop access to undesirable or illegal material. Second, simply thinking filters will solve the problem focuses only on catching consumers, rather than working to stop the producers and distributors of such reprehensible material. Stopping it at the source would seem to be a much more effective way to combat child pornography, rather than to just focus on the point of consumption...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).