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Bloxx Joins the Internet Watch Foundation to Support Battle Against Illegal Web Content

July 2008 by Marc Jacob

Bloxx, the web filtering specialist, announced that it has become
a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), joining around 80
members from a diverse range of organisations in their battle against
illegal online content. With its expert knowledge of up-to-date web
filtering technologies, Bloxx hopes to contribute to the remarkable
success of the IWF in tackling online illegal content; specifically
child sexual abuse images hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and
racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

Through working closely with the online sector, the government and
general public, the IWF aims to foster trust and confidence in the
Internet among current and future users; assist service providers in
combating the abuse of their systems and to assist law enforcement in
the fight against online illegal content. The IWF operates a UK
’Hotline’, enabling the public and IT professionals to report any
instances of potentially illegal content on the internet in order to
remove it, prevent access to it and disrupt the activities of those
operating such websites.

The IWF is the only recognised organisation in the UK operating an
internet ’Hotline’ for the public and IT professionals to report their
inadvertent exposure to potentially illegal content online.

Their aim is to minimise the availability of potentially illegal
internet content, specifically, including child sexual abuse images
hosted anywhere in the world; criminally obscene content hosted in the
UK and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

The IWF works in partnership with UK Government departments such as the
Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to influence initiatives and programmes
developed to combat online abuse. This dialogue goes beyond the UK and
Europe, to ensure greater awareness of global issues and
responsibilities.

It is a self-regulatory body, funded by the EU and the wider online
industry. This includes internet service providers (ISPs), mobile
operators and manufacturers, content service providers,
telecommunications and filtering companies, search providers and the
financial sector as well as blue-chip and other organisations who
support IWF for corporate social responsibility reasons.

In partnership with many organisations the IWF strives to create
continued awareness of the role and purpose of the IWF and aims to
foster trust and reassurance in the internet for current and future
users.


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