LINX: Daily Mail promotes Cleanfeed
LINX public affairs have finally caught up on the 10 day old advertisment story from the Daily Mail.
A large spread in the Daily Mail [PDF, 4Mb] last week piled on the pressure for ISPs to adopt network-level content blocking, with all the even-handed dispassionate analysis you’d expect from the Daily Mail.
They provide a link to the article in PDF format - I would never have dared - but somehow they manage to miss the fact that irresponsible reporting like this helps perverts to find illegal material.
The story also fails to point out that 100% adoption of the BT Cleanfeed system will not stop children being abused and will not stop perverts viewing illegal material.
You'd think this would be a big issue with LINX - but apparently not - I can't figure out why.
Wake up and smell the coffee guys!!!
You need to use every argument at your disposal to avoid costly filtering and/or monitoring requirements that could become mandatory under the current regime.
The operational costs of the proposed filtering and monitoring requirements are both costly and difficult to implement - and when they have been implemented won't work as intended.
What a waste of time and money.
It doesn't work, it won't work and its time to say so - don't just shilly-shally and go all ambiguous - like this -
.. with all the even-handed dispassionate analysis you’d expect from the Daily Mail ...
Try this instead
Blacklist filtering systems such as "BT Cleanfeed" do nothing to prevent children being abused and will never prevent perverts looking at illegal material.
Or even:
Rather than placing the onus, and the cost, on common carrier ISPs - the government should tackle the root causes of illegal material on the Internet by attacking the criminal gangs who are linked to human trafficking for sexual activity, child pornography, and pornography spam
The Internet doesn't have a problem - the world has a problem.
That is the message that needs to be taken to governments who advocate one-size-fits-all censorware schemes that are expensive to implement and don't work anyway.
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