[governance] How to Block Pornographic Websites

[John Curran]

On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:

> The option I noted was also from an end-user (or service manager) point of view - I've rarely seen providers be very proactive about content - usually items that are auto-screened vanish quickly - but otherwise manual comments/reports are needed before they even know about the fact.
>  
> (This is strangely overlapping with our 'freedom of speech' and 'censorship' discussion - or am I the only one who feels that way?)

Indeed.  In the perfect world, such reports would nearly always result in appropriate action
by service providers, and the occasional escalation to law enforcement anywhere would
result (by prompt liaison) with the incident being investigated by law enforcement with the 
relevant experience and jurisdiction over the service provider serving questioned content,
regardless of the nature of the concern or dispute.

Until that perfect world is found, in my humble opinion, it would be best if freedom of speech
and commercial disputes wound their way through the existing national and international 
mechanisms for inter-governmental cooperation, thus enjoying a benefit of the doubt and 
a preference against undue action by governments towards parties in another country.  

My own views are quite different w.r.t child pornography (due to the nature of the victims) 
and present US law enforcement mechanisms on the Internet turn out to be similarly aligned.  
Folks should be aware that a CyberTipLine report which is reasonably credible upon review
can result in notices for action to any and all electronic service providers which are facilitating 
the distribution of the materials, regardless of its actual physical location on the Internet.
I am told that existing US law is far reaching with respect to range of actions for knowingly
failing to comply with such notices, including accessory criminal liability for dissemination
of child pornography.

FYI,
/John

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