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It is WTO who is authorized to set Internet censorship guidelines

November 4, 2009 - 10:04am | Law aspects | News
It is WTO who is authorized to set Internet censorship guidelines

 Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.

A censorship case at the WTO could raise sovereignty issues, given the clear right of member states to restrict trade on moral grounds -- for example, by blocking access to child pornography websites.

But a WTO ruling could set limits on blanket censorship and compel states instead to use more selective filtering, according to the study, to be published on Thursday by think-tank ECIPE.


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Heated arguments about Germany`s website block list

June 18, 2009 - 9:20am | Law aspects | News
Heated arguments about Germany`s website block list

The text of the new legislation, designed to enshrine the blocking of selected internet sites in law, was agreed by Germany`s two main political parties - - the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats - on Monday night. It authorized German federal police to put together a block list containing the domain names and IP addresses of websites hosting and linking to child porn.


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Australia's state government warns against sexting resulting in sexual abuse

May 4, 2009 - 10:05am | Law aspects | News
Australia's state government warns against sexting resulting in sexual abuse

This week Australia's state government of New South Wales started an education campaign, aiming to fight against "sexting”. The representatives warn these images or sexually explicit text messages can be posted on the Internet or forwarded to others, which can end up in harassment or even sexual assault.


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A 10% decline in child porn, still no reasons for rejoicing?

April 29, 2009 - 1:43am | Figures | News
A 10% decline in child porn, still no reasons for rejoicing?

On Wednesday in its annual report the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said that while the number of websites displaying child pornography dropped by almost 10% in 2008 most of those images were still traded by commercial sites which account for 74% of all the Internet addresses which offer child abuse images.


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Germany to stick a “Stop” sign onto the child porn

April 24, 2009 - 10:17am | Law aspects | News
Germany to stick a “Stop” sign onto the child porn

It has been announced that the German Cabinet has approved a law aimed at strengthening the existing ban on child sex abuse images.

According to the law, ISPs will be required to display a 'Stop' sign when a user tries to access websites including the prohibited content. The list of those websites will be prepared by the police and transferred to ISPs. 


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Visa and Microsoft join the European coalition against child abuse

March 5, 2009 - 8:27am | News | Other themes
Visa and Microsoft join the European coalition against child abuse

Visa and Microsoft join EU fight against Internet child porn that was announced on Tuesday and unites police, Internet providers, financial groups and NGOs. 

The European Financial Coalition (EFC), led by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and including MasterCard, Microsoft, PayPal, VISA Europe and the NGO Missing Children Europe, intend to collaborate in the fight against child abuse images.


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Wikipedia promotes child pornography?

December 11, 2008 - 4:42am | News | Other themes
Wikipedia promotes child pornography?

Wikipedia, an online edition owned by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation, was removed from the child porn blacklist by the Internet Watch Foundation. Last week under instructions from the IWF, several major UK ISPs began censoring a Wikipedia article dedicated to Virgin Killer, a 1976 record album from German heavy metal band The Scorpions. The album's original cover includes the image of a naked prepubescent girl whose genitals are covered only by what appears to be a cracked camera lens.


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McColo hosting company was cut off due to distribution of spam and child porn

November 13, 2008 - 2:59pm | Fraud | News
McColo hosting company was cut off due to distribution of spam and child porn

Have you noticed that you e-mail box is not bursting with junk messages any more? And you don’t spend your precious time for deleting those unnecessary messages? You think that your spam filters work better? Or phishers got retired? May be they forgot your e-mail? NO! The answer is simpler. The thing is that this week two major ISPs have cut off internet access to the US-based hosting company McColo Corp.


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