Google Announces Child Porn Block

I am concerned about pornography and wish we could completely  ‘block’ all pornography on the internet, but this at least  is a very good step and

I have to commend Google, Microsoft and others for their efforts here and pray, maybe someday, we can develop a complete block.

The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently announced that the company is introducing software that will block links to child abuse material on the internet.

In Britain’s ‘Daily Mail’ newspaper, Schmidt announced that Google and other internet companies like Microsoft have been working with law enforcement agencies to stop child pornography pedophiles from sharing illegal pictures on the internet. Schmidt wrote: “While society will never wholly eliminate such depravity, we should do everything in our power to protect children from harm.” He also stated that the company has fine-tuned Google Search “to prevent links to child sexual abuse material from appearing in our results.”

Among other changes, there is a warning from both Google and charities posted at the top of more than 13,000 search results and assigning a digital fingerprint to illicit images so the can be removed from Google’s system and the Google engineers are developing technology that would identify videos showing sexual abuse with the hope of making it available to other internet companies and child safety organization by next year.

While he acknowledged that no algorithm is perfect, the changes have cleaned up the results of over 100,000 queries. Changes will be rolled out within the next six months in more than 150 different languages, making the impact global.

British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted representatives of Google, Microsoft and other internet companies recently in London for an internet Safety Summit.