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[FYI] UK: "Internet service providers could be encouraged to provide parents with packages that excluded online chatrooms"



<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2001-03/chat010301. 
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Crackdown on internet chatroom predators  

By Nigel Morris, Political Correspondent  

1 March 2001  

Jack Straw plans to crack down on paedophiles who befriend children 
through internet chatrooms.  

The Home Secretary met officials to discuss drawing up a new offence 
to control the online activities of paedophiles yesterday, Tony Blair 
said. Internet service providers could be encouraged to provide 
parents with packages that excluded online chatrooms.   

[...]  

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