YouTube – UK Government plans to criminalise Japanese Anime/Manga fans The UK Government is planning to outlaw mere possesion of cartoon images that appear sexually explicit IF the persons in them APPEAR to be under…
UK – IWF chief: why Wikipedia block went wrong: “(ZDNet.co.uk) The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an organisation set up by internet service providers to monitor child sexual abuse websites, caused a furore in December when…
Texts adopted – Tuesday, 3 February 2009 – Combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography – P6_TA-PROV(2009)0040 European Parliament recommendation of 3 February 2009 to the Council on combating the sexual exploitation of…
Could you get arrested for owning a graphic novel? | Coffee House Wednesday, 28th January 2009 Could you get arrested for owning a graphic novel? William Blackstock 5:27pm Film adaptations of graphic novels such as…
ISPs slam CEOP bid to rewrite RIPA: “ ‘Money well spent’ ISPs have hit back after the boss of the UK’s online child exploitation police branded the costs of accessing data on their subscribers ‘ridiculous’.……
BBC News: Child abuse unit paying for data By Angus Crawford, BBC News, 21 January, 2009 Internet service providers charge up to £65 a time for data The unit set up to tackle child sex…
Chaotic Coroners and Justice Bill reels into view Net suicides, gay rights, data transfer – it’s all here Comment While the question of whether cartoon images of children should fall foul of the law has…
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds 1st CP-Anime Conviction Under PROTECT Act – XBIZ.com By Rhett Pardon, Saturday, Dec 20, 2008 RICHMOND, Va — A federal appeals panel has affirmed the first child-porn cartoon conviction under the…
Jump in FBI child porn cases leads to lab backlog – Yahoo! News Fri Jan 23, 2009 WASHINGTON – The FBI’s stepped-up effort to fight Internet child pornography has led to an evidence backlog in…
German Government Wants to Start ISP-Based Censoring 16 January, 2009 Germany will start to hand out blacklists to internet providers, several German news sources, like Spiegel, report (Google translation available here). This move is proclaimed…