Google and Microsoft have ramped up their efforts to fight online child porn following months of pressure by the office of UK Prime Minister James Cameron. Among other things, the two have created a blacklist of search terms for which results will be blocked. When Cameron asked Google and Microsoft to create such a system in July, the companies told him blocking search results could not and should not be done because it was “against the very principle of the Internet and search engines to block material.”
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UK Gets Google, Microsoft to Step Up Online Child Porn Fight
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 18, 2013 01:45 PMGoogle and Microsoft have ramped up their efforts to fight online child porn following months of pressure by the office of UK Prime Minister James Cameron. Among other things, the two have created a blacklist of search terms for which results will be blocked. When Cameron asked Google and Microsoft to create such a system in July, the companies told him blocking search results could not and should not be done because it was “against the very principle of the Internet and search engines to block material.”