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The lower part of the 'website' section appears to be written by some one from the organisation - I've added the 'advert' tag as it seemed the most apropriate. 80.41.171.18 08:53, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


Their own web site [1] says that their mission statement is "To work in partnership with internet service providers, telecommunication companies, mobile operators, software providers, the police, Government and the public to minimise the availability of online illegal content, particularly child abuse images.". We currently make them look broader than they are. Secretlondon 03:52, 31 March 2007 (UTC) Aim [2] Our aim is to minimise the availability of potentially illegal internet content, specifically:

  • child abuse images hosted anywhere in the world
  • criminally obscene content hosted in the UK
  • incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK

Role [3]

  • Operating a 'notice and take-down' service to alert hosting service providers of criminal content found on their servers.
  • Recommending that internet service providers should not carry certain newsgroups in accordance with policy guidelines adopted by the IWF Board.
  • Acting as a relevant authority in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Section 46 Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre deal with IM, chatroom etc.[4] Secretlondon 03:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

  • "Please note that the terms "child pornography" or "child porn" can act to legitimise images which are not pornography. Rather, they are permanent records of children being sexually abused and as such should be referred to as child sexual abuse images."
What a lovely example of a neutral point of view :-) lmno 03:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
The whole entry needs a NPOV transfusion. It reads like a corporate statement by the Internet Watch Foundation. Loose terms like "illegal content" are meaningless in an international context. IWF blocks content that it considers to be illegal or potentually illegal under UK laws. Meowy 02:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Reminds me of the Great Firewall of China.209.161.213.102 22:24, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Me too. What if they censor anything the gov't doesn't want the people to know? Deathkenli 07:46, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Editing by User:Internet Watch Foundation

Yesterday, a user named "Internet Watch Foundation" made an edit to this page. A request for them to confirm their identity and explain their edits has been placed on their talk page. In the meanwhile, their edits have been reverted to avoid conflicts of interest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CheshireKatz (talk • contribs) 20:08, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers

As a result, less than 1% of potentially illegal content has apparently been hosted in the UK since 2003, down from 18% in 1997.

  1. Meaningless numbers: 1% of illegal content: of illegal content hosted worldwide? Of illegal content accessed from the UK? Of illegal content investigated by IWF?
  2. No source.

David.Monniaux (talk) 21:49, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

The source is the IWF I think. I can try and find a quote but it does seem pretty meaningless regardless. Secretlondon (talk) 22:12, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Heres a ref for the 1% number from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7350295.stm. Basically only 1% of the worlds child porn is hosted on british computers. (Hypnosadist) 01:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Netsense

Should there be a mention of the IWF being funded by netsense? Klosterdev (talk) 21:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Got a source? If so put it in. (Hypnosadist) 01:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award for Chief Executive, Peter Robbins OBE, QPM,

This from their website http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.226.htm he got the ISPA Internet Hero award.