[TechDirt] EU Realizes That You Fight Child Porn At The Source… Not By Trying To Hide It

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[…] DH’s Love Child points us to the news that some EU politicians, in response to an initial plan to require filters to block sites deemed to have child pornography, have decided that a smarter plan is to actually go after the sources of child pornography

« The new generation of MEPs has shown it understands the Internet and has courageously rejected populist but ineffective and cosmetic measures in favor of measures aimed at real child protection, » said Joe McNamee, of the European digital rights movement EDRi. « This is a huge and implausible success for an army of activists campaigning to protect the democratic, societal and economic value of the Internet, » he added

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