Charles Clarke and paedophiles

[Yaman Akdeniz]

On 30 Jul 2000, at 18:20, Roland Perry wrote:

> Which aim: the running of a hotline (which seems to me indisputable), 

Hotlines are very much disputable regardless of what you believe. 
Civil liberties organisations all around the world do disagree with 
privatised policing organisations like Internet hotlines where 
Internet content is being removed from ISP servers without due 
process.

>or
> the involvement in discussion about wider child protection issues
> regarding the internet (which has been acknowledged in Hansard).

Well you may convince those who are not so familiar with what the IWF 
does but you will not convince me as the IWF remains as an 
unaccountable private organisation with important "public duties". Of 
course such an unaccountable body fits well with the Government and 
yes the IWF is supported in the political arena but that does not 
mean that it is accountable to the public or whether members of the 
public can challenge its decisions. I am not even going into the 
issue of whether the "hotline" is effective in "cleaning the 
Internet" from child pornography.


Mr. Yaman Akdeniz,
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