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UK: A series of hotlines aimed at cleaning up the Internet

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/02/internet.safety/index.html


By Lynn Crombie CNN.com Writer

(CNN) -- A series of hotlines aimed at cleaning up the Internet have resulted in thousands of sites being removed from servers in the U.K.

Since launching in 1996, hotlines run by the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) have been instrumental in getting more than 25,000 potentially illegal items, mostly child pornography, removed from servers.

And reports passed on from the IWF have resulted in a number of successful prosecutions in the U.K. and abroad.

IWF Chief Executive David Kerr said that the system of hotlines has been an effective way of identifying and removing illegal sites and said the service providers in the U.K. have been very supportive.

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