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by lclarkmichalek 4345 days ago
Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia? Anyway, at least in this case, the tip was sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which, being a private non profit, doesn't seem too closely associated with the NSA/DHS/whatever government organisation you believe maintains these lists.
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throwaway0010 4345 days ago
"Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?"

It's nothing at all. Plenty of innocent people are on those lists having done nothing.

That the pretext is terrorism is irrelevant.

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DanBC 4345 days ago
The UK version - the Internet Watch Foundation - is also a charity but you'd be a foolish UK ISP to ignore what they say.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/

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lclarkmichalek 4345 days ago
The UK equivalent would probably be the NSPCC. If Google had a tip of an individual person distributing these images they would not contact the IWF. That would be for a website that was distributing these images.
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DanBC 4345 days ago
In the UK the IWF provide information about what to block and take reports about hosted images.

CEOP are the group that Google would report people to.

http://ceop.police.uk/

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PhasmaFelis 4345 days ago
> Isn't that mainly terrorism, not paedophilia?

"Terrorism" was just how they learned they could get away with it. Having established that, it's now any damn thing they want.

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