Internet: Security
Baroness Neville-Jones: To ask Her Majesty's
Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 7
May (WA 143), why the Internet Watch Foundation's list enables internet
service providers to block child sexual abuse images if they are hosted
abroad but does not enable them to block websites hosted abroad
promoting violent extremism and terrorism. [HL3607]
Lord West of Spithead, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-terrorism, Home Office:
The IWF acts as a reporting centre for images of child sexual abuse,
criminally obscene images and websites containing incitement to racial
hatred. Of these, only child sexual abuse images are illegal to view,
and therefore the IWF list comprises only those sites.
Source: Hansard 10 June 2009 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldhansrd/text/90610w0001.htm#09061055000169
