While in France, the legal framework for blocking access to child pornography is being finally adopted, several MEPs had asked the European Commission to provide explanations as to support, including financial, given to the network "CIRCAMP", a project of "COSPOL" (Comprehensive Operational Strategic Planning for Police). This network aims to fight against the distribution sponsored trade of child pornography.
One solution proposed by the network CIRCAMP is to enable blocking access to certain websites. For the network CIRCAMP " blocking access to images of child exploitation as a preventive measure and according to national legislation, the introduction of Child Sexual Abuse Anti Distribution Filter (CSAADF) ".
However, a paragraph in the network's website has boosted CIRCAMP MEPs. This paragraph discusses the possibility of a blockage of a domain name (with le risque de surblocage que cela pourrait entraîner). En effet, le site de Circamp prévoit ceci :
"The CSAADF focuses on blocking on domain level. We believe that this places the responsibility for the content of any domain or sub domain in the hands of the domain owner or administrator. If a domain owner places, accidental or willingly, child abuse material on his/her domain, and it is blocked by the police, the blocking will not be lifted until the material is removed. We believe that this will motivate content providers on the Internet to actively make an effort to avoid files with child sexual abuse on their systems/services. CIRCAMP believes that the police should not function as a moderator of Internet services, removing or blocking out parts of the available content, like an image. One image of a child in a sexual exploitive situation on a domain can/will result in the whole domain becoming unavailable in participating countries until removed. It is our experience that some domain owners/administrators are indifferent to the content they are providing access to, and there is a need for them to make informed decisions as to what content they are distributing and making available on the Internet."En réponse, Neelie Kroes, Commissaire européenne en charge de la société de l'informatique, répond le 17 janvier 2011 de la manière suivante :
" The Commission provided funding from the Safer Internet programme to the CIRCAMP project for the period 01/11/2008 to 31/10/2010.
The overall aim of this project was to stimulate organised and extensive cross-border exchange of best practice between law enforcement agencies in the fight against production, online distribution and access to child sexual abuse material. In particular, it aimed to share the use of a filtering system. In each country where the tool is implemented, the list of web sites hosting child abuse images is drawn up by national police forces in accordance with the requirements of national law.
The CIRCAMP project did not promote a specific level of blocking; this is decided by the country in question, at domain level in some countries, in others a combination of domain and URL blocking . The project did not have as its objective to put in place a general obligation to monitor, nor have companies felt obliged to put any such system in place as a result of the work of the project. The Commission is not responsible for the CIRCAMP Web site and so it would be inappropriate to comment on its contents.
The Commission has tabled on 29 March a proposal for a Directive on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. Child pornography is first and foremost the depiction of an awful crime against a child, and dissemination of child abuse images on the Internet is a gross violation of the child's privacy. A mong a number of measures to combat and disrupt it, The Commission has Proposed Member States should "That, subject to appropriate" Legal Safeguard, take Measures to Obtain The blocking of access by Internet users in Their Territory to web pages containing child pornography. The choice of tools to Meet Technical restes this obligation with member States. "Thus, the response recalled the wish of the European Commission to adopt a Directive providing for the possibility for member states to proceed with the blocking of child pornography.
Source: Written response by Neelie Kroes Marietje Schaake, Sophia in't Veld, Alexander Alvaro and Nadja Hirsch, 17 January 2011
Author: Benoit Tabaka - http://tabaka.blogspot.com 
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