US needs to step up fight against online child abuse
Posted by Timmah on 20 July 2006 - 09:22 · 8 comments & 5384 views
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#1 Posted by Syphonic on 20 Jul 2006 - 09:40
- I don't know what they are going to come up with to solve this problem. Something has to be done though
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#1.1 Posted by MrCobra on 20 Jul 2006 - 09:49
- They could make it a capital offense with some really harsh penalties.
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#2 Posted by samriley on 20 Jul 2006 - 10:02
- having said that if you compare the population of america with the population of for example spain you have about 300,000,000 compared to 40,000,000 respectivly... so spain is about 7.5 times smaller. if you account for that then spain would be up at around 68% so the us's 50% isnt really that bad when you think about it.
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#2.1 Posted by Xavien on 20 Jul 2006 - 10:32
- then again if you look at the UK (0.2%) and times that by about three to get the US population (maybe a bit over by about 30 million) which would make it 0.6% (probably 0.5% accounting for the excess of 30 milllion) it makes the US look pretty bad in comparison.
But these sites in Russia, Spain, Japan and the US really need to be shut down, allthough Russia would be tough
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#2.2 Posted by Garry on 20 Jul 2006 - 11:41
- Quote - Xavien said @ #2.1then again if you look at the UK (0.2%) and times that by about three to get the US population (maybe a bit over by about 30 million) which would make it 0.6% (probably 0.5% accounting for the excess of 30 milllion) it makes the US look pretty bad in comparison.
But these sites in Russia, Spain, Japan and the US really need to be shut down, allthough Russia would be tough
Actually, you'd need to multiply it by 5.
Population of UK = just over 60,000,000
Population of USA = just under 300,000,000
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#3 Posted by shirike on 20 Jul 2006 - 17:04
- The people uploading and creating these sites will go wherever the laws are weakest or ISP's are slowest to react.
It's no surprise the UK has such a low percentage when you recognise UK ISP's act within 48hrs of a complaint. That's good stuff.
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#4 Posted by Dead-Pixels on 21 Jul 2006 - 14:19
- THERE PENIS SHOULD BE CUT OFF.
SICK, SICK, SICK
USA:
Highest in Porn & Child Porn
Sick Pervs and Pedos
The IWF is keen to stress that the reason the country has such an alarming proportion of material is because the US has more ISPs than any other country, handling more web-traffic than any other country. The report found almost 5,000 sites containing indecent images of children, with 2,500 of them hosted in the US.
Next in line was Russia with 14.9%, Japan with 11.7% and Spain with 8.8%. Thailand (3.6%), South Korea (2.16%) and the UK (0.2%) trailed in last, whilst 7.5% fell into the "Other" category.
The US has already made attempts this year to tackle the problem, in April there were proposed new laws and in June a coalition of five large organisations (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink United Online and The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) met to outline their own ways in which to deal with the problem.
Despite the growing problem of online child abuse, it is important that the relevant authorities deal with the problem in a way that has little to no effect on the rest of the legal internet. Limiting users rights is not be the answer, but a greater offensive against known sites (some of which left online 5 years after being reported - IWF) would benefit the whole of the internet.