(Image source from: Google says no to child porn})
Internet mogul Google has decided to block all links related to child pornography worldwide. This means you will no longer be able to surf for images and videos relating to child porn on Google Search Engine anymore. Microsoft run Bing and Yahoo are also likely to enforce this restriction soon.
Responding to Daily Mail's Downing Street summit on internet pornography , Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said, “We've listened. We've fine-tuned Google Search to prevent links to child sexual abuse material from appearing in our results.”
The restriction will be enforced across the world and in159 languages including English in the next six months.
Mr Schmidt further revealed that Google has come up with a ground-breaking technology that will 'allow illegal videos to be 'tagged' so that all duplicate copies can be removed across the internet'.
The dramatic decision comes after the British daily 'Daily Mail' launched a campaign called Block Online Porn Campaign to force internet giants to keep the web free of child porn and halt this depravity.
Google spokesman Peter Barron said: “The sexual abuse of children ruins young lives. It's why we proactively remove these awful images from our services – and report offenders to the authorities. But the Government is right that our industry can do more. So we' ve developed new technology to detect and remove videos of abuse, as well as fine-tuned our search engine to prevent this material from appearing in our results. We hope this will make a difference in the fight against the sexual exploitation of kids.”
Google is also planning to launch family-friendly filters to screen out all adult content in their next move.
Daily Mail launched the campaign after two shocking crimes involving child killers obsessed with depraved images stormed Britain. Apparently, the criminals — Mark Bridger and Stuart Hazell — killed a five-year-old and twelve-year-old respectively, after trawling internet pornography.
AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury
