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Originally Posted by Xplicit
Sounds like an excuse for more government monitoring of the internet.
Somehow I see this leading towards "we need ISPs to give the government full access to logs and the ability to monitor their traffic".
.... when it should be the government spending its time and money tracking down the root sources of this stuff. If you bust the people MAKING IT, there wont be any CP to be hosted in the first place, right?
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It starts exactly there Xplicit - with the individuals who actually abuse children and produce this type of content. Hell.. don't care whether they product CP or not - they abuse kids - they need locked up.
The other aspect is... instead of politicians talking about it and finding new laws to combat it - act. Several law agencies are already well under-funded and it's thanks to the officers making extra efforts from their own time that these agencies are still functioning. There are plenty laws already existing to handle this stuff - they just need more resources, not more laws.
Sure ISP's can play a roll - that does not necessarily mean government monitoring. Once a govt gets access - they have more data than they could possible handle and enter "information overload" mode.
It's already known who many of the perps are - it's a matter of time till law agencies get round to dealing with them. (Back to resources). Small example, very first time I came across clear-cut CP - this was reported to the FBI. What did they do? Nothing. Approx five calls later I gave up and went via another law channel and the website was pulled in under an hour. This is not a criticism of the FBI in particular. There can be other reasons for apparent inactivity - more important and more serious than CP.
Tho agree Xplicit - can't say anything a govt has to offer is a cure and prob the less messing by govt the better, - but a govt can allocate more resources to CP (and child issues generally), instead of farting about with stuff like, eg 2257.