The scum of the Earth just got five new corporate enemies. AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft, United Online, and Yahoo! have signed on to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. The five companies will fund a new "Technology Coalition," a sort of Justice League, within * Developing and implementing technology solutions that can detect and disrupt the distribution of known images of child exploitation on the Internet. * Improving knowledge sharing within the industry by establishing a centralized clearinghouse for known images of child pornography and other information that network operators can use to combat or block child pornography. * Improving law enforcement tools by researching and developing tools for law enforcement to assist in the location and identification of predators and distributors of child pornography. * Research perpetrators' technologies to enhance industry efforts by evaluating the specific and emerging technologies used by child predators to exploit children and conceal their activity. "It may not be possible to eradicate all threats to children online, any more than it is possible to protect children from all threats in the physical world," said John Ryan, Chief Counsel of AOL. "However, by better leveraging 21st century technologies, we believe it is possible to increase the chance that child predators will be caught and provide a deterrent to those who would be tempted to exploit children on the Internet. The proposed Coalition would employ the best minds of the Internet industry to develop deterrent strategies and technologies." Interestingly, Internet technology powerhouse Google is absent from the list of major corporations contributing to the effort. | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web
Internet Companies Unite Against Child Porn
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