The broader issue of "How to prevent underage children from accessing child porn
and other pornographic material on the internet" was submitted for discussion
to the House Crime Committee by AKEL deputies Costas Papacostas, Yiannakis
Thoma and Panicos Stavrianos, and the Committee has been examining the matter
for the past few months.
The final report is almost ready, Committee Chairman Costas Papacostas told
reporters after the meeting, and will soon be promoted to the Plenum for
discussion.
The recent meeting was attended by spokesmen of the Education Ministry's
Electronic Communications and Post Regulation Service, CyTA and the Cyprus
Research and Academic Web (KEAD), who informed deputies on the legal frame and
implementation methods that are used both in Cyprus and internationally to
filter websites, which promote illegal pornographic material.
The CyTA spokesmen told the committee that the Authority was already
implementing such a programme, which has been used by around 600 members of
public so far. He added that the service would now be offered to CyTA
subscribers for free, as opposed to before where there was a monthly charge.
"The Committee's intention is to complete this report in a way that will
effectively combat the phenomenon of child pornography over the Internet," said
Papacostas.
Cyprus Mail
