p2p news / p2pnet: AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online says they’re teaming up to fight online Kiddie Porn.

They’ll work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), says The New York Times, going on, "The first project is to create a central database that could help identify images of child pornography sent by e-mail."

The announcement was timed to coincide with two days of hearings by a House subcommittee, beginning today, that’ll look at how ISPs and social networking sites are used by child pornographers and sexual predators, says the story.

Individual cmpanies company will their own procedures on how they use the database, "but executives say the partnership will let companies exchange their best ideas – ultimately developing tools for preventing child-porn distribution instead of simply catching violations," says the Associated Press.

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Also See:
The New York Times – Online Effort Is Planned Against Child Pornography, June 27, 2006
Associated Press – Internet Firms to Step Up Child-Porn Fight, June 27, 2006

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