Net providers agree to block sites with child porn

So, several giant corporations are going to somehow decide which material is offensive and then somehow "shut down" sites which host this material? How will they make these determinations? How will they shut down these sites?

Has this approach EVER worked?

of course child pornography should be illegal and gotten rid of- however i think that is the job of law enforcement and the government... not internet service providers-- i feel like this is only the beginning of internet censorship and limitations. (remember the article submitted about how in 2012 the internet will be COMPLETELY regulated?)
im glad child porn is being limited but in my gut i feel like this is only the beginning and websites might start being shut down or we'll have to pay to see them that don't include illegal material.

This is a slippery slope. Of course we are opposed to child pornography, but I am equally offended by corporate censorship. Where will the line be drawn?

Ah shit, here's the major start to internet censorship.

The internet is not the place for censorship...it's the one place where a person can have TRUE freedom of speech, and censorship is never good, regardless of the apparent cause.

child porongraphy is wrong, but the internet is really the last place where freedom dosent have very many limits, and i think that censoring what is on the internet is realy gona send things in the wrong direction.

This is a bold & smart first move in the Net Neutrality war. Child pornography is a very awful thing, the next target by ISP's will be file sharing sites. Everyone please go to http://www.savetheinternet.com/ & educate yourself before we all suffer the consequences of ISP's deciding what we can & can't look at.

This is a slippery slope for sure.

For those who desire to limit / moderate what you get to know or are exposed to - this is step number one for mind control.

I personally think there should be limitations of this kind, but I know where it leads, butt fast. The thing is, blocking it does not stop the exploitation, the violation of trust, the betrayal for profit of children. It does not help those whose arrested development draws them to it.

If we are going to stop, or maybe reduce the demand for and the incidences of child exploitation, we need to address the cause, not the effects of the cause.

How about working to prevent the fire before it starts, rather than always chasing fires. What a different world we would have.

I really don't think this will help. People who are as troubled as these people clearly are won't be cured by cutting off their supply. We need to find a way to fix the people, not force them to move.

It's about damn time.

We must demand that any process involving censorship be fully transparent as to be sure that no abuse of their power occurs. I don't trust anyone to deem what is or isn't appropriate for public consumption without the process of being completely out in the open.

Of course, they wheel in censorship upon the worst possible offenders that no one would want to bother defending. I don't know how to explain the danger that exists in wreckless accusations of unspeakable acts which are judged in secret other than to tell folks to watch The Crucible or read about the Salem Witch Trials.

The word censorship always scares me, but in this case, I want to say it's a good thing. I don't know how much it would do stop child pornography, irregardless its going to happen, but as stated, it's a slippery slope. Today it's child pornography, tomorrow it's pornography all together, not mention anything else they might find offensive.

A ban or block like this should also target MySpace, YouTube, FaceBook, etc.

These are gateway sites that lead to children in wretched situations (photo sharing, actual meetings, a need to make that "better" video).

Also, albeit a tangent, look @ your local video store,... on the new release wall,... see how many rated R dramas are full of child-porn themes,.............DISGUSTING!

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I would like nothing more to have all child pornography (and pedophiles) erased, burned, and/or destroyed. However, as with many on this thread, I do not want ANYONE setting the line on what is deemed "acceptable."

Wouldn't this conundrum be better solved if these providers just made it easier to supply information to prosecute these pedophiles instead of shutting down sites which can respawn in hours? Think about it. These sick f*** criminals are more likely to go to prison and the "slippery slope" is all together avoided. Who loses in this scenario?

what's next, our guns?

I bet the feds wouldn't mind getting rid of 4chan and deviantart for the price of a bribe.

Very good. Now let's track those pedos down and throw them in jail.

No one is ever pleased by the efforts of a "big" corporation. They are apparently nasty no matter what good they try to do.

Interestingly pathetic on behalf of those that have to find fault.

Trying to provide a safe environment without catering to the likes of the scum of scum is far from stealing freedom.

I think some people need to find something else to nitpick on. This afraid of everything mentality is how people turn into conspiracy theorist and those people are crazy and hardly close to the truth as they think.

A lot of the times when laws can not get passed you see them throw child porn into the mix. It is one of those things you can not speak out against without looking really bad. I see this as a foot in the door for the control of the Internet. who is to make this list of sites that do and do not have child porn on them? I don't trust any group that has to start an undercover investigation to find out that newsgroups exist.

If these internet service companies know which sites are selling or contain child pornography, doesn't this make them accessories to the crime? They are, afterall, providing the service that allows a venue for these crimes to happen, so it should be their responsibility to take them down before more children and families are hurt. This should have been done a long time ago. Access to child pornography should not be "restricted" but done away with completely, and the creators of these types of websites should be tried & convicted as perpetrators of these crimes. This is not a censorship debate, but a human rights issue. No one has the right to create this type of damage in the world, and display it on the internet for the taking.

I definitely agree with censoring child porn. Why hasnt it been done sooner? At my school, though, first they censored only porn and violent sites...and now we cant even go to www.ask.com or do picture searches. It is virtually impossible to do anything, even school activities.

--Jade
PS it starts out a good cause and then you end up living in a socialist society.

We need to clean the global digital environment and protect children who are victims.

I read that there was over 100,000 child porn sites

This is just a drop in the bucket. I hope it is not just PR. We will have to check.

Since we are at it, can NY state starts to clean up the immoral behavior in the state house.

Honestly was that very difficult to thnk of? Or that difficult to implement?
I am always surprised when they bust ANOTHER creepo for browsing this filth. Why is there even a method of posting such things?
Explain to me why have these providers not done something like this before....please do not come back to me with the "Freedom of Speech" arguement. There are limitations to such a thing, especially when there is not a platform to base a need upon.
Just don't take my legitimate Adult-porn browsing away. (there IS need for that, like it or not).

GOOD! For those of you who are all about free speech and freedom of expression (which I AM also), you should understand that the internet is a place where child pornagraphy has been carried out for entirely too long. Children are being hurt and people are making money from it. Children are being raped and poeple are getting off on it. It is disgusting and should have been blocked a LONG TIME ago.

There is a huge difference between someone having sex with a consenting adult than someone having sex with a child. Block them then track them down. Throw their tails in prison. There is no place in the world- not even the internet- for child pornagraphy.

for those of you who argue thats its important to not restrict freedom of speech, i really think you need to weight the values of this circumstance and not think in absolutes. of course its important to be able to express yourself, but should we also allow those who like to undermine the value of the human body by exploiting its dignity in a public forum such as the internet?

by strictly supporting freedom of speech, you allow for others to destroy other important values such as respect...you say its the government's job to rid us of perverts, of petophiles, of pornography? what influences our values and attitude more, the people in washington or the computer screen in front of our eyes? in this case it should not matter that a guy who likes to exploit humans isnt able to spread his corruption. no matter how ambiguous the standard, it is better to show less nudity than to let people thrive off of other people's expression of speech of this kind.

This is one step closer to absolute slavery by brain washing and oppressing us as a people. Like the freedom of loving who ever you want, gay marrage, it has turned into court battles and ruled by our governments. Like choice over one's own body, abortion, your body is not yours any more, it is slowly becoming that of the collective. You own nothing if not yourself, so you own nothing. As we are seeing now, freedom of speech, this is being taken away through the internet. In a way that we could all agree with, that being child pornography is wrong. Prehaps this is playing more on the fear of what we seem to be is we don't agree with this. This stigma has turned us against our freedom.
So we'll go on playing with our fake money.
We will wait for the revolution, but thats all we'll ever do.

http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html#anchor2

There are over 100.000 child pornography websites

One out of 7 children has received internet sexual solicitations

14% of children will give their email address and 29% will give their home address

The names of famous youth characters like Bambi, spongebob etc etc... are misused to attract children.

Pornogaphy has many ugly faces. It has the same origin.

Freedom without responsablity .... Well.... I will say no more

We cant have it both ways

Anyone watching or paying for PORN, has to check their own conscience.

You are subziding these people.$$$0000000000.00


$95 Billions, we could send to help end starvation

What a shame !!!!!!

soleil10 ...YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT.

What if we did take a fee from ALL legitimaste porn sites and applied to good causes?

This is worth fighting for and to raise a voice over. The world will never let go of it's desire for nudity and sex, so let's tax it!

i say this with sincerity: FLESH TAX