How easy is it to find child pornography on the Web?

Not so easy anymore! Thanks to three major online providers: Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable, it will now be much more difficult to find child pornography on the Web. Today, these three companies entered into an historic agreement whereby they will erase ALL child porn content from their servers as well as block user access to child pornography content found anywhere else on the Web.

Here's what the Verizon spokesperson had to say about the possibility of this decision impinging on free speech:

"The tension there is between allowing customers the ability to communicate with their privacy rights protected, and preventing people from doing things that are illegal," - source

Obviously, anything to do with child pornography is heinously illegal, and I applaud these three companies for stepping up and doing their part to keep the Web safe. What do you think of this decision?

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