Re: Should ISP block child pornography?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

How is it that Interpol isn’t taking over/shutting down these domains in the DNS at the registry/registrar level?

The GAC pushed hard for the provisions that allow them to do so and there’s a pretty clear (and quick) process for it.

Owen


> On Dec 6, 2018, at 22:06 , Lotia, Pratik M <Pratik.Lotia () charter com> wrote:
>
> Hello all, was curious to know the community’s opinion on whether an ISP should block domains hosting CPE (child 
> pornography exploitation) content? Interpol has a ‘worst-of’ list which contains such domains and it wants ISPs to 
> block it.
> On one side we want the ISP to not do any kind of censorship or inspection of customer traffic (customers are paying 
> for pipes – not for filtered pipes), on the other side morals/ethics come into play. Keep in mind that if an ISP is 
> blocking it would mean that it is also logging the information (source IP) and law agencies might be wanting access 
> to it.
>  
> Wondering if any operator is actively doing it or has ever considered doing it?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
>  
> With Gratitude,
>  
> Pratik Lotia      
>  
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