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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
12:19:00 PM EDT
Hearing Freak Me Out -- Weezer
Here's some interesting news about AOL joining forces with other online service providers:
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
The companies pledged $1 million among them Tuesday to set up a technology coalition as part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They aim to create the database by year's end, though many details remain unsettled.
The participating companies are Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink Inc. and United Online Inc., the company behind NetZero and Juno.
When I actually worked in the AOL offices, I knew some of the people who worked in the arm of AOL's security devoted to stopping child pornography on the service. What a wrenching job to have, emotionally and otherwise, but I think the people who did the work knew it had to be done and that at the end of the day they were doing some good. Sharing data will other services will make their jobs easier, and I'm hard-pressed to see that as anything but a good thing.
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12:19:00 PM EDT
Hearing Freak Me Out -- Weezer
A Coalition Against Exploitation
Here's some interesting news about AOL joining forces with other online service providers:
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
The companies pledged $1 million among them Tuesday to set up a technology coalition as part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They aim to create the database by year's end, though many details remain unsettled.
The participating companies are Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink Inc. and United Online Inc., the company behind NetZero and Juno.
When I actually worked in the AOL offices, I knew some of the people who worked in the arm of AOL's security devoted to stopping child pornography on the service. What a wrenching job to have, emotionally and otherwise, but I think the people who did the work knew it had to be done and that at the end of the day they were doing some good. Sharing data will other services will make their jobs easier, and I'm hard-pressed to see that as anything but a good thing.
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great! it has always seemed to me that more could be done in this area.
Kathy -
The worst joke I know ends "How do you think I feel? I have to walk back alone."
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6/27/06 11:00 PM
Amy
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