ISPI report on child porn on the net.....

godskitchen

I was listening to the radio just now about a report about how bad child porn has got on the internet. It was from the ISPI.

"A massive increase in P2P child porn"

Does anyone else see this as one more tactic to police the internet?

Do we have mothers in the street holding placards demanding ISP's restrict access to the internet because of all the child porn?

I dont use P2P, have not for a long time, maybe child porn is all over the place?

Something does not add up here, its happening all over the world, not just here, the slow tip toe road to internet police. How long before we are told we cant go here or there because it has child porn on it. Who decides?

I for one dont trust any government enough to say what I can and cant look at.

tHE vAGGABOND

You should not be allowed to look at child porn, and Im happy for them to police that [and that alone] and crack down on those who do!

,8,1

I think news reports like this are quite orchestrated and have the purpose of having more overall policing of the Internet. Consider "moderators" for the whole Net as opposed to just websites, consider blocking off of "inapproriate" (but non-child-porn) domains and Google search results. Think the Chinese Firewall but for the whole world.

This has been dubbed Internet 2.0 - more centralized, Government control of Internet availability and data flow.

Massive changes to the administration of the 'Net will be done on a chorus of "child porn on the Internet" propaganda pieces. Child porn is not the reason corporations and Governments are pushing this policy - they want a general censorship mechanism for the Net and this is the means.

All I can say is defend Net Neutrality and keep and eye on these developments

You should not be allowed to look at child porn, and Im happy for them to police that [and that alone] and crack down on those who do!

It won't be "that alone".

jor el

tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »

You should not be allowed to look at child porn, and Im happy for them to police that [and that alone] and crack down on those who do!

But you're already not allowed to view child porn, and as ,8,1 (love that username) says, any policing bills introduced will more than likely not be restricted to CP. Why not add on policing anything illegal to it, whether it's illegal in all states or not? Existing laws already prohibit the production, sharing or viewing of child porn, so why do we need anything more, especially if that will be open to abuse?

As mentioned in the report, I don't think there's an increase in child porn, but more a case of there are more reports of it. More people have high speed Internet access now, and are becoming aware of what's out there, and also how to go about reporting it. Over the past few years there has been a massive increase in P2P everything.

Moriarty

Moved from bb to Humanities.

Kama

There's more pictures of kittens with Hitler mustaches on the internet than ever before, ditto any possible human interest. Rule 34 says, there is porn of it, no exceptions...Children exist, therefore...

I'm biased pro-P2P btw, viewing it as a case where technology has moved us into a post-scarcity situation, and economics isn't catching up and business has generally viewed it as a threat, rather than adapting to it. More fool them. You won't have grannys with placards, but I'm sure you could attract a lot of corporate funding very easily with a nice astroturf campaign...

'Scare' issues like porn make for a good moral panic, but illiberal policy. Much as child abusers statistically are far more likely to be family than a weird old man at the park, the focus on internet paedophiles seems a convenient outlet for moral condemnation but likely an ineffective method of reducing paedophilia.

AARRRGH

There is violence on the streets of Dublin, so I think we should monitor everyone who uses the streets of Dublin.

Certainly it sounds reasonable to log their every movement.

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.

/Sarcasm

Victor

godskitchen wrote: »

I was listening to the radio just now about a report about how bad child porn has got on the internet. It was from the ISPI.

"A massive increase in P2P child porn"

Does anyone else see this as one more tactic to police the internet?

No, its merely reporting a problem. No solution is suggested. That is unless you forgot to tell us half the story.