Comments on: Who knew it? Online services can block illegal images.

By: Robert Rex EDWARDS

Robert Rex EDWARDS — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:04:03 +0000

I would suggest reading what happen when it was tried before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalition The technology exist but so does the key words used to promote those sites. In the case outlined above: Children as young as 4 were seeing images of child porn. But the schools adults and medical groups were being blocked by use of tagged words.
Image tags will only work if the person who creates them tag them. Third party tagging using written words such as penis or breast. block medical students and doctors from web site that dealt with those parts of the anatomy
So who will be hurt. The 4 years in the case typed words like cat, but, girl, boy and over 200 pop ups went on to the computer the restriction was set to moderate. But in order for the doctor to get his research he had to turn off the filter. So use of filters will never work unless it comes from the source of the images.

By: JEV

JEV — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:49:50 +0000

Google supplies services to protect your account from accepting and or receiving any questionable or illegal materials. How this works is you log into into your Google Account using your gmail and password. Go to setup preferences: Scroll down to find Public or Private. You can now switch between making your account accessable. Now scroll until find age limit. You can adjust this setting. You can setup at Adults only can only access the account. So now if your preferences are only your Friends and Collegues that can visit your Google page plus they must be Adults to do so, that is a great start in the prevention of any unwanted Materials filtering into your account from Unknown users. All of us have had major issues with Phishing and Scams coming into our Google accounts. So before you accept Google terms make darn sure you know their policies and limitations. JEV

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:09:54 +0000

The “digital fingerprints” tool, though I don’t know if it’s the identical one that Google is using, has been around for quite some time. It’s a standard tool in forensic investigation of a computer.

Are you proposing that services such as Google simply block prohibited images and not report them? I’m no lawyer, but I don’t know if legally they have that option.