Canada targets online kiddie porn
p2pnet.net News:- Canadian ISPs such as Bell Canada, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, Videotron and MTS Allstream are working with Cybertip.ca on “Project Cleanfeed Canada” to censor web pages which feature children being sexually exploited.
The aim is to block between 500 and 800 offending sites.
A Canadian pedophile was recently caught abusing a child in a live online ’show’.
Cybertip.ca says it’s a, “centralized web portal for receiving and addressing reports from the public regarding child pornography, luring, child sex tourism, and children who are exploited through prostitution. Cybertip.ca also provides the public with information, referrals and other resources to help Canadians keep their children safe while on the Internet.”
The list of sites will be updated daily and will prevent both intentional and accidental viewing of the sites, The Toronto Star has Cybertip.ca executive director Lianna McDonald saying.
The project is based on a similar UK operation backed by British Telecom and is expected to be rolled out in Canada over the next few months, says The Globe & Mail.
“The project is spearheaded by the Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation, a group that includes law enforcement agencies, ISPs and federal and provincial governments,” it says.
The story has Cybertip executive director Lianna McDonald saying Cybertip and other groups, “had numerous discussions about the privacy and civil-liberties implications of such a program.”
“One of the reasons it was decided to proceed, she said, is that the act of accessing child pornography is illegal in Canada,” says The Globe & Mail, adding:
“The websites currently on the block list contain images that clearly depict illegal acts, Ms. McDonald said, such as pornography involving prepubescent children.”
Also See:
live online ’show’ – Pedophile caught in online assault, November 3, 2006
The Toronto Star – Project aims to block child porn sites, November 24, 2006
The Globe & Mail – Project takes aim at Internet child porn, November 24, 2006
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November 24th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I assume then that we can all now sue our ISPs when our computer is damaged by an online attack, since they have taken on the legal responsibility for determining what content gets through to customers.
November 25th, 2006 at 1:32 am
‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’, has a nice Orwellian ring to it don’t you think?
This is how it always starts. After all, anyone against this censorship plan will be labeled a child-porn lover by the drooling masses.
It should also be noted that nobody involved in the plan actually expects this plan to work, since there are millions of child-porn sites and they are changing all the time. And on top of that, the majority of child-porn is passed around via mailing lists, usenet, and other various means.
Now that the big ISPs have shown their willingness to block sites, don’t be surprised when it goes past child-porn. Next it will be trial
publication bans, then ‘hate speech’, then de-tax sites (those are already being targeted behind closed doors), video/music download sites, then anything that someone in a high place doesn’t want to be seen…
Canada is quickly becoming a nation of little pussy cowards just like the states… we toss away liberties and freedoms because we a afraid of this or afraid of that. They expect people to be brave enough to dodge bullets overseas to ‘preserve freedom’, yet all the little pansies at home couldn’t turn their rights over quick enough to be protected from whatever boogy-man happens to be lurking in the shadows this week….