It is generally accepted that both parties to a criminal transaction are prosecuted. If a man is observed buying cocaine in the street we expect him to be prosecuted, but would be astonished if the complicity of the drug dealer was ignored.
Most would assume that the drug dealer was at least equally, if not more, deserving of prosecution. Why do we not apply the same logic to internet crimes?
Every month we hear of someone being prosecuted for downloading child pornography, but why is no action taken against the companies that knowingly supply this sort of material to our homes? Both parties are guilty and should be prosecuted.
The internet companies will howl in protest. They will claim that filtering the internet is impossible, but this is untrue.
Filtering out 100% of illegal material is impossible, but cutting out much of the child porn that is available, through search engines, to every family computer is certainly possible, but it is not in the financial interests of the internet companies to carr
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