Seanad debates

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

In 2009, as mentioned by Senator Jillian van Turnhout, BT announced it had estimated that over its broadband network its blocking solution was preventing up to 40,000 attempts a day to access websites known to contain child abuse images. Extrapolated across the broadband network in the United Kingdom, this suggests blocking was preventing up to 58 million attempts a year. Five months after blocking was launched in Denmark in 2006 Danish police estimated that 238,000 users had attempted to reach known illegal child abuse images on the web. BT has implemented its blocking solution in Newry, Belfast, Coleraine and Derry, yet 100 km from Newry that is not the case. Because of our anxiety about the Government amendment, we sought a commitment from the Minister which he has given, for which I thank him.

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