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It will be interesting to observe if this gets into law without being challenged. UK public did not really care about "Tempora" etc. as far as i could see it.

by spdy 13y ago

It will be interesting to observe if this gets into law without being challenged. UK public did not really care about "Tempora" etc. as far as i could see it. (i hope i am wrong) And systems like these are just the front door approval to cover the other systems. They tried to implement a system like this in Germany and failed miserable but every society acts differently we are still up in arms against the spying programs. But in most countries this topic already vanished from mainstream media.

DanBC 13y ago
A government mandated crude filter applied by the ISPs by default, controllable by the account owner, would probably be acceptable to enough people in England for it to go through without much fuss. But even with that there are obvious problems. Ann wants to turn the filter off, but Bob is the account owner, and Ann doesn't want Bob to know. Chas is their 15 year old child and he finds it trivially easy to bypass the filter. And now Cameron has announced much wider plans, with many more flaws. I'm annoyed and disturbed that Cameron is mixing in some measures against images of child sexual abuse and measures against normal pornography. They are very different problems[1] and should be dealt with very differently. It would be great if image search engines could make reporting images to the Internet Watch Foundation[2] easier. That might go someway to appeasing the politicians. I doubt it would get much use. I search for a lot of images, every day, and I go down the long tail of the search, and I have never seen any images of child sexual abuse. Perhaps search engines could provide some statistics of searches for certain words associated with child sexual abuse. This would have to be done carefully, but I'm not thinking of normal terms that every day people might use (someone doing research, or a child who has been abused) but some very specific terms that only people involved in trading images of child sexual abuse would know. I'm sure they have their own lingo. [1] I say problem because that's the word they use, not because I think regular pornography is a problem. [2] IWF are the regulators in the UK for this kind of thing and they coordinate with law enforcement world wide. http://www.iwf.org.uk/ http://www.iwf.org.uk/

by spdy 13y ago

DanBC 13y ago

A government mandated crude filter applied by the ISPs by default, controllable by the account owner, would probably be acceptable to enough people in England for it to go through without much fuss. But even with that there are obvious problems. Ann wants to turn the filter off, but Bob is the account owner, and Ann doesn't want Bob to know. Chas is their 15 year old child and he finds it trivially easy to bypass the filter. And now Cameron has announced much wider plans, with many more flaws. I'm annoyed and disturbed that Cameron is mixing in some measures against images of child sexual abuse and measures against normal pornography. They are very different problems[1] and should be dealt with very differently. It would be great if image search engines could make reporting images to the Internet Watch Foundation[2] easier. That might go someway to appeasing the politicians. I doubt it would get much use. I search for a lot of images, every day, and I go down the long tail of the search, and I have never seen any images of child sexual abuse. Perhaps search engines could provide some statistics of searches for certain words associated with child sexual abuse. This would have to be done carefully, but I'm not thinking of normal terms that every day people might use (someone doing research, or a child who has been abused) but some very specific terms that only people involved in trading images of child sexual abuse would know. I'm sure they have their own lingo. [1] I say problem because that's the word they use, not because I think regular pornography is a problem. [2] IWF are the regulators in the UK for this kind of thing and they coordinate with law enforcement world wide. http://www.iwf.org.uk/ http://www.iwf.org.uk/