Can The Internet Be Policed?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On 8 December at a summit in London Britain’s prime minister David Cameron told delegates from 50 countries and 26 tech firms that online child exploitation “existed on an almost industrial scale" around the world. He announced an “unprecedented package of global action” to hunt paedophiles who use the internet.
And just weeks before that a committee of British politicians revealed their belief that the intelligence services could have stopped a May 2013 terror attack in London if Facebook had alerted the authorities to an online exchange between one of the attackers and another extremist.
In this edition of The Inquiry we ask: Can the internet be policed?
Presenter: Jo Fidgen
(Photo: Big Data. Credit: Carlos Amarillo)
Transcript
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| 0:57.0 | Representatives from 50 countries and 26 tech firms have agreed plans to fight online child abuse. |
| 1:08.0 | So this week we're asking, can the internet be policed? |
| 1:13.0 | A year ago it was revealed that police in the Philippines had raided homes where children were being made to perform sex acts for paying customers to watch online. |
| 1:25.0 | Cybersex can do things to your core, this said it can take things from you your dignity |
| 1:35.8 | the children were in the Philippines but the pedophiles paying to watch them |
| 1:40.7 | were in a dozen countries. So last month the British Prime Minister |
| 1:46.9 | hosted a summit. Delegates from around the world agreed new plans to hunt |
| 1:51.4 | down pedophiles online with the same energy and techniques used to |
| 1:56.1 | fight terrorism on the web. |
| 1:58.6 | This landmark agreement we're signing amounts to nothing less than a global war against online child abuse. |
| 2:05.0 | Child abuse and extremism grab the headlines, but any crime that can be committed in the real world is happening on the web too. |
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