BLOCKING ACCESS TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

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That this House congratulates British Telecom and Vodafone for taking measures to limit access to child pornography on their services; notes the success of the British Telecom Clean Feed system, which blocks up to 20,000 attempts a day to view websites featuring child pornography; further notes that such schemes are an important method of tackling child pornography and child abuse; calls upon the Home Office task force on child protection on the internet to work with other internet service providers to encourage them to introduce similar schemes; and calls on other telecommunications companies to follow Vodafone's lead in the mobile internet field.