Abstract
BT's technology for blocking access to Internet child pornography sites has proved highly effective since going on trial on 21 June but for this very reason has attracted flak from freedom advocates fearful that this is a big slide down the slippery slope to online censorship. Other ISPs have been offered the technology called BT Cleanfeed on a non-commercial basis, but some such as AOL are wary of stepping into a legal minefield where they could be sued for inadvertently blocking a legal commercial site that is deprived of revenue as a result. Yet others such as Energis and Demon Internet have been considering similar blocking tactics. Such sites might decide not to adopt BT's technology, but would almost certainly attempt to block the same sites, those blacklisted as worldwide child abuse websites by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). This list is currently growing at the rate of 3000 a year.
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