[pp.int.general] Dutch platform internet security

[Brian McNeil]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 23:30 +0100, Reinier Bakels wrote:
> This afternoon I attended the kick-off meeting of a new Dutch
> "platform internet security". One of its themes is a black list
> (blocking list) for websites spreading child pornography. The minister
> of justice spoke at the meeting an told that plans are under way to
> create such a list centrally for distribution to providers.
>  
> IIRC similar projects in other countries (Scandinavia?) distributed
> lists that contained mainly regular (adult) porno sites and few actual
> child pornography sites. If that is true, the black list is mainly a
> pretext to block adult pornography.
>  
> Could anbyone update me on this subject? What is the actual situation
> in EU countries?

The UK has the Internet Watch Foundation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation
http://www.iwf.org.uk/

You might remember the cockup when they tried to list an album cover
from the 1970s that's on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations

They backed down, but didn't initially look like they would:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia,_IWF_respond_to_block_of_Wikipedia_over_child_pornography_allegations

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/IWF_reverses_censorship_of_Wikipedia

And the Germans tried to do the same:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/German_internet_watchdog_to_remove_URLs_to_%
27Virgin_Killer%27_from_search_engines




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