Actor Chris Langham has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for downloading child pornography. While I don't condone his actions for a minute, I can't help wondering why the police keep prosecuting the easy, high profile targets rather than requesting the government make new legislation.
I believe it is really easy to get rid of child pornography from the internet...pass a law that prohibits any ISP from showing that content and fine them or stop them operating in this country. The UK Police are constantly looking into this to try to find where people are finding these pictures, so they can provide a lot of websites to ban.
It may not be as easy as this, and I accept that, but there must be some kind of control that we in the educated UK can implement. If countries such as China can limit the content of the web available to it's population, then we know it is do-able!
I did think about fining or banning providers that host the content, but as something like less than 1% of all child pornography is hosted by UK providers, this would not work as 99% of sites are not covered by UK laws.
Our freedom is being eroded at every turn now, and some will argue that making some of the web inaccessible is further proof that our freedom is gradually being taken from us. I am usually one of those people. However, this is such a big issue and is certainly not victimless, and I think these harsh measures are needed.
I will not stop children from being brought into a sick industry, but at least we in the UK will be leading the way in trying to help stop it's market.
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