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Originally Posted by HarryT
As has already been stated, it's not "technologically infeasible"; the mechanism for doing so already exists and is already used to block certain sites.
Who is it unfair towards? The owners of the criminal web sites involved?
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Am I the only person who read this:
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Justice Arnold ruled that BT must use its blocking technology CleanFeed - which is currently used to prevent access to websites featuring child sexual abuse - to block Newzbin 2.
In an email interview before the verdict, Newzbin 2 threatened to break BT's filters.
"We would be appalled if any group were to try to sabotage this technology as it helps to protect the innocent from highly offensive and illegal content," said a spokesman for BT.
The Internet Service Providers' Association has been a fierce critic of web blocking.
It said that using blocking technology designed to protect the public from images of child abuse, was inappropriate.
"Currently CleanFeed is dealing with a small, rural road in Scotland," ISPA council member James Blessing told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
"Trying to put Newzbin and other sites into the same blocking technology would be a bit like shutting down the M1. It is not designed to do that."
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