Governmental Filtering and Blocking of Websites in The Netherlands

  • Kerstens J
  • Leukfeldt E
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Abstract

During the first half of 2006 the Dutch Lower House passed a motion in which it requested the Minister of Justice to promote the further development and use of the technical possibilities to block, filter and to cut off child pornographic material from the internet and other media and to further inform the House about this. That motion was the reason for this research that offers an investigation of the technical and legal possibilities to filter and block child pornographic material on the internet. In Europe Norway and the United Kingdom started filtering the flows of information on the internet (2004). The Norwegian filtering system was adopted by other European countries such as Sweden and Denmark (both 2005) and The Netherlands in April 2007. All the above-mentioned European filtering activities are directed towards child pornography that is available on web pages. The Dutch police did set up a collaboration with three ISPs (UCP, Scarlet and Kliksafe). Our research started in December 2007, more than half a year after the police had started this filtering project; we finished gathering research material on the 1st of May, 2008 (Stol et.al., 2008).

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Kerstens, J., & Leukfeldt, E. R. (2009). Governmental Filtering and Blocking of Websites in The Netherlands. In 4th Annual Giganet Symposium (pp. 1–11).

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