It was recently announced that cable companies that reach about 87 percent of the homes in the United States will start taking voluntary steps to limit transmission of child pornography via the Internet. The agreement is between the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children(NCMEC), and the National Association of Attorneys General. The cable companies involved reach over 110 million homes.
The cable companies have agreed to use NCMEC's list of websites identified as containing child pornography to make sure none of those sites are hosted on servers owned or controlled by their companies. The cable companies will report any such activities to NCMEC's CyberTipline which will instigate a referral to law enforcement and an investigation in to those responsible for posting the illegal material.
The cable companies that have agreed to sign the memorandum of understanding with NCMEC are:
Comcast Corporation, Cox Corporation, Charter Communications, Cablevision Systems Corporation, Bright House Networks, Suddenlink Communications, Mediacom Communictions, Insight Communications, Bresnan Communictions, Midcontinent Communications, Broadstripe, GCI, Harron Communications, US Cable Corporation, BendBroadband, Eagle Communications, and Sjoberg's Inc. They join Time Warner Cable which has already signed the agreement.
This is a great step in the right directrion and these companies should be commended for their actions and hopefully will continue to work to eliminate the transmission of child pornography.
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