Anti-kiddie porn campaign
p2pnet.net News:- Up to 50 of the world’s largest financial institutions have been asked to join an international effort to help crush commercial online child pornography by 2008.
Online porn is a business, “estimated to be worth between $5bn and $20bn (£2.7bn and £10.7bn) globally – six times larger than the online music trade,” says The Guardian Unlimited.
Now, “Large banks in the UK are being asked to join a financial coalition against child pornography, and back its ‘light a million candles’ awareness campaign, by Standard Chartered, the London-based bank which does most of its business in Asia, Africa and the Middle East,” and which led meetings omn the subject at the most recent meeting of the International Monetary Fund, says the story, going on:
“Mike DeNoma, Standard Chartered’s head of consumer finance, wrote to the British Bankers’ Association yesterday urging it to join the international campaign. The father of six has made the issue a personal crusade after being introduced to the subject by his sister who was doing some charity work in the US.”
People are using Net payment methods to buy pornographic images of children, says DeNoma.
So far, none of the UK’s main domestic players have signed up, but his intervention, “comes as Britain’s banks are preparing for new domestic laws to stop the credit cards and bank accounts of convicted paedophiles,” says The Guardian Unlimited.
Also See:
The Guardian Unlimited – World’s largest banks join forces to stamp out child internet porn, October 7, 2006
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