Government & ISPs meeting today re blocking child abuse images on-line
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A not-very-promising account of the meeting from the I.T. angle
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/382507/child-abuse-showdown-hijacked-by-ignorant-mps
"Hijacked by ignorant MPs"? Surely not!
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/382507/child-abuse-showdown-hijacked-by-ignorant-mps
"Hijacked by ignorant MPs"? Surely not!
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It seems as though the government has summoned representitives of all these companies and have said something along the lines of "you run the internet, fix it!"
Sadly, it just isn't technically possible for them to do that. Nobody can control what gets sent around the world using Torrents, Usenet, IRC, etc. The entertainment industry has tried for over a decade, and they are no closer to solving the problem.
It's hard to see how they could ever eliminate this problem, unfortunately.