Internet Providers Fight Child Porn
Posted on June 11, 2008
Filed Under Child Abuse, Law, News, Sex Offenders |
The nation’s biggest internet providers have agreed to fight online child pornography by shutting down websites and limiting access to internet bulletin boards. The agreement follows an 8-month investigation of internet pornography by the New York attorney general. Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications and Sprint Nextel made the joint announcement yesterday. They agreed to develop systems to respond to online child-pornography complaints in addition to donating a total of $1.1 million to fight online child porn and remove it from the internet.
In the course of the investigation, New York AG Andrew Cuomo and investigators found 88 online newsgroups containing more than 11,000 “sexually lewd photos featuring prepubescent children.” Last year, Cuomo’s investigation of Facebook let the social-networking site to overhaul its safety features to better protect children. New York’s ongoing investigation seeks to shut down internet child porn providers.
Child pornography and other internet crimes are considered by law enforcement officers to be the greatest law enforcement challenge of the 21st century. California and Los Angeles cyber crime units coordinate with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to aggressively prosecute internet pornography, computer crimes against children, internet sex crimes, identity theft and internet fraud. Seventy-eight percent of all internet crimes originate in the U.S. and 10% of those are committed in California. Under the California penal code conviction of internet crime can lead to state or federal prison; fines; restitution; loss of licenses, security clearances and employment; prosecution as a sex offender and other serious consequences.
-LegalPro
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