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European Commission wants stronger sanctions against child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and child pornography PDF Print E-mail

The European Commission on 29 march 2010 proposed new rules obliging EU countries to impose more severe punishment on those who sexually abuse children. The proposal also calls for criminal prosecution of activities like 'grooming' (befriending children with the intention of sexually abusing them) and "sex tourism", even if the child abuse has taken place outside the EU. The Commission also wants more to be done to prevent these offences and to protect the victims. It particularly wants to make sure that offenders can get tailor-made treatment so that they don't abuse again.

Circamp and its appraoch has been made one of the key actions in the plans. In the proposal Member States have to take the necessary measures to obtain the removal of internet pages containing or disseminating child pornography. If such websites are difficult to remove, Member States will be obliged to ensure that access to websites containing child pornography can be blocked, as they are very difficult to take down at the source, especially if the site is outside the EU. The proposal will leave it to Member States to decide exactly how the blocking should be implemented but legal safeguards will always apply.

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German debate on Circamp PDF Print E-mail

The issue of the Circamp filtering method and approach is again heavily debated in Germany. After the plans had been stored in the fridge by the new government at the end of 2009, the recommendations of the EU Commission and the Council of Ministers has refuelled the discussion. Below some extracts from Der Spiegel.

The stop sign is back: At the European level the maw enforcement agencies will continue to put on block lists and filter against the display of child abuse on the Internet. In a draft of the Council of Ministers supports the use of network filters in Europe. Read the full article in Der Spiegel (in German)

The EU Commission and the Council of Ministers still want Europe to introduce the controversial internet filters. The filter systems are already in use in countries such as Itay . Will the "Stop" signs come via Brussels? The EU parliament could stop the controversial directive. Read the full article in Der Spiegel (in German)

Minister of Justice Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger confronts the EU-Commission: the FDP-minister is trying to prevent the EU plans for internet blocking of child pornography Web sites - for network blocking she says, are not effective. She gets support from the SPD and the Greens. Read the full article in Der Spiegel (in German)

 
La Razon PDF Print E-mail

 

En septiembre de 2007, el Ministerio anunció la puesta en marcha de Circamp. Hoy, todavía no se ha materializado. El Ministerio del Interior ha olvidado en un cajón el proyecto de prohibir el acceso a las páginas webs con pornografía infantil. En septiembre de 2007, el departamento que dirige Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba anunció en un comunicado que se habían unido a Circamp, un proyecto que ya funcionaba en una decena de países europeos y queserviría para prohibir los accesos a las páginas webs pedófilas.

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Article in Le Monde PDF Print E-mail
11 février 2010,  Les pédophiles n’ont rien à craindre de la LOPPSI. Les internautes, si.

Le filtrage de l’internet, adopté ce jeudi 11 février à l’Assemblée nationale, dans le cadre de la Loppsi 2, n’a pas pour objectif d’empêcher les pédophiles de consulter des sites pédopornographiques.

D’une part parce que la pédopornographie, ça n’existe pas. Ensuite (et surtout), parce que le filtrage de l’internet que prévoit le projet de loi ne concerne aucunement les pédophiles avérés, mais les internautes qui, par mégarde ou par naïveté, pourraient éventuellement y accéder. Et encore : il s’agit moins d’empêcher ces internautes de devenir pédophiles que de leur éviter de se faire escroquer…

A contrario, cette mesure ouvre la boîte de Pandore du filtrage de l’internet, suivant en cela la préconisation de Nicolas Sarkozy qui, récemment, déclarait à propos de l’Hadopi qu’il “faut expérimenter sans délai les dispositifs de filtrage“, afin de lutter contre le “piratage“.

 
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03.02.2009 | 14:31

Webseitensperrungen: Rufmord inclusive webeitensperrung zensur matti nikki finnland

Die finnische Möglichkeit der Sperrung von kinderpornographischen Seiten im Internet wird in Deutschland als Vorbild gepriesen. Das Beispiel des Finnen Matti Nikki zeigt, dass dies ein Trugschluss ist. Die Sperrungen erfolgen vielmehr unkoordiniert, unbegründet und bringen mehr als unangenehme Nebenwirkungen für die Betroffenen mit sich. 

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