"Dealing with Child Sexual Abuse Images (CSAI) on the Internet is not an optional extra"

Secretary of the Children's Charities' Coalition for Internet Safety, John Carr, says, "Dealing with CSAI on the Internet is not an optional extra. It's part of the cost of doing business for a modern ISP. Governments round the world know that, technically, access to CSAI can be blocked and can be blocked inexpensively."No ISP wants illegal activity on their network and contrary to popular opinion even small and medium sized ISPs can play their part in combating access to CSAI.ISPs are able to block access to CSAI by deploying the first affordable one size fits all system from Internet filtering experts, Watchdog International.Talk Internet is the first UK ISP to implement the system and is a good example for other UK ISPs to follow in making the Internet a safer place by embracing new technology.Watchdog International’s MD, Peter Mancer, said, “The UK Internet industry has an excellent track record of fighting illegal content on the Internet, exemplified by the establishment of the IWF. On the technical side we recognise that no ISP's network is the same. There has been no one size fits all technical method of blocking CSAI. Now UK ISPs can implement a low cost system that protects their users from CSAI content without interfering with the speed and reliability of their network.”