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British Censorship
The actions they claim they will do will, of course, lead to no
results whatsoever in many cases... as it should be. The hotline in question
sounds like a number as opposed to an email address... pity, we could just
bounce all spam to it and ask them to deal with it.
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> BRITISH GOVERNMENT SETS UP NET PORN FILTER
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> LONDON (Sep 23, 1996 3:48 p.m. EDT) - The British government Monday
> set up a watchdog to try to get pornography off the Internet.
> Safety-Net, which is being financed by the industry, will have a
> hotline to which callers can report suspected illegal material and
> will contact police if necessary.
Being financed by the industry = if you're going through a British
ISP, you're paying for it whether you like it or not.
> It will publish a "legality indicator" or rating for each public
> access area on the Internet known as a Usenet news group. The rating
> will indicate whether the group normally contains illegal or
> pornographic material and what kind.
> Internet users can contact the hotline to complain about material
> received from anyone via an automatic telephone, mail, e-mail or
> facsimile.
> Safety-Net operators will try to see where the material came from,
> contact the authors and ask them to remove it. They can ask the
> relevant service provider to take action and pass details to the
> British Police National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
> "We at the Home Office (interior ministry) made it clear to the
> Internet providers some time ago that action was needed to deal with
> obscene material on the Internet," Home Office Minister Tom Sackville
> said.
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> Science and technology minister Ian Taylor said Safety-Net would act
> as a warning system to alert the public.
> "As this is an international network, we have to do something to try
> to eliminate illegal use of it -- the abuse of the Internet by a few
> perverts," he told BBC radio.
As this is an international network, this is completely impossible.
> "Government and the Internet industry have been working hard to come
> up with proposals that can offer real protection to net users while
> preserving free speech and recgonizing the value of the net for work,
> education and leisure," Taylor added in a statement.
Usual government doubletalk.... preserving free speech means no
such actions.
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