"Child Abuse" is one of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse regularly invoked as a justification for ever more Government snooping and censorship of the internet, even though these problems have existed for thousands of years before the internet was invented. Nevertheless, it is true that some, but not all, of the people obsessed with "child porn" images, collected, or swapped via the internet, a...

"Child Abuse" is one of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse regularly invoked as a justification for ever more Government snooping and censorship of the internet, even though these problems have existed for thousands of years before the internet was invented. Nevertheless, it is true that some, but not all, of the people obsessed with "child porn" images, collected, or swapped via the internet, a...

The Government is failing to resolve the issue of access to child abuse images on the internet, major children's charities said today.

apComms, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Communications, chaired by John Robertson MP and Derek Wyatt MP, is launching an inquiry into Internet traffic to assess regulation of ISPs and a range of Internet traffic issues from behavioural advertising and privacy to child abuse images and Internet neutrality to answer what role Government should play when it comes to Internet traffic.

From PA: The head of a child sex abuse police unit hit out today at having to spend thousands of pounds on buying valuable information from internet firms. According to the BBC, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 on gathering internet data since it was founded in 2006. The sum, which

Andy Burnham Culture Secretary wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents "child-safe" web services, and says giving film-style ratings to individual websites is one of the options being considered. In other words the government is going to set up a registration and control system for internet publishers, in short this is ...

Andy Burnham Culture Secretary wants internet-service providers (ISPs) to offer parents "child-safe" web services, and says giving film-style ratings to individual websites is one of the options being considered. In other words the government is going to set up a registration and control system for internet publishers, in short this is ...

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Talk Internet is the first UK ISP to implement a system that blocks their users' access to websites containing child sexual abuse images (CSAI). The system, provided by Watchdog International, is called NetClean WhiteBox.

Gorgon, go fuck yourself: Gordon Brown hailed the internet as a world of "entertainment, opportunity and knowledge" as he launched a new watchdog to protect children online. The Prime Minister said that the UK Council for Child Internet Safety was an "important landmark" in efforts to keep young people safe on the web. The council was set up by the Government in response to recommendations by Dr T...