BT Blocks 10,000 Child-Porn Site Visits A Day

jb.hl.com writes "The BBC is reporting that British Telecom, the predominant telecommunications company in the UK, is blocking 10,000 attempts to access child pornography a day. In the first three weeks of the system being operational, BT allegedly blocked 250,000 attempts to view such pages. They apparently have no idea how many of these hits were accidental, or caused by malware. The block affects 2.5m of BT's customers. Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT Retail, said with regards to privacy concerns that "we don't know their motives or who does it and honestly we don't want to know"." onion2k reminds us that we first mentioned the block in June.

Re:Medical sites...?

[madprof]

No....the sites blocked are specifically child porn sites.
They've been seen by the Internet Watch Foundation and classified.

Child Pr0n has been eradicated already...

[Anonymous Coward]

...in Japan.

Sheesh.

[Xargle]

Home Office minister Paul Goggins said the figures revealed by BT were "deeply shocking" and he said he hoped other service providers would take up the offer of using BT's blocking technology.

He told the Today programme: "Every image of a child that appears on the internet is an image of a child that's abused."

See? It's not just America that's governed by idiots.

Re:Internet Watch Foundation?

[madprof]

Duuuuh. They classified them as child porn because they were illegal to look at under UK Law. It is legal in the UK to look at medical sites obviously. The sites looked at are definitly illegal to look at. The IWF know child porn because it's their job to stop it.

Re:Good beginnings != good endings?

[iapetus]

Roll on 2007. :)

This should have been implemented earlier

[mm0mm]

Even though this may look like a bad example of a private company violating the freedom of expression, this program should have started much earlier in the history of the Internet in UK. This is a shame. I mean, how many children are still being exploited everyday? Only if I could turn back the time.

It doesn't matter to me even if this would make it difficult for me to finish my research on child abuse. Has this program started, say, only a few years ago, I wouldn't have become a registered pedophile. Dammit.

Pete Townsend

p.s. I've been using news groups lately. They are awesome!!

Re:Think of...

[chegosaurus]

Don't worry. We'll have ID cards soon, then everything will be fine again.

1960's

[turgid]

It'a all the fault of the 1960's [bbc.co.uk] now.

Re:How do they know what's child porn?

[cruelworld]

Something tells me it's not children who are downloading all the child porn.

In fact it'd be safer if the children monitored their parents downloading habits.

Re:Sheesh.

[teamhasnoi]

He told the Today programme: "Every image of a child that appears on the internet is an image of a child that's abused."

It's True [microsoft.com]!

Microsoft abuses children! Think of the Children! Switch to Linux!