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Protecting Children in Cyberspace is the theme of this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, but will it actually make our kids any safer online?

There’s been a warning that publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
 

Mobile internet operators have a moral obligation to provide safeguards that limit access of children and, what’s more, they should consider self-regulation and their social responsibility or face the prospect of regulators demanding that they implement methods to protect children, according to a UK management firm advising that country’s technology, media and telecommunications industries.

Message Partners has just released into the public domain for use with spam filters, what it claims is the world’s most extensive offensive language list, including hundreds of thousands of permutations of sexually explicit language.