The real culprits go free...
Meanwhile, it's the real culprits which go free.
This is mostly the fault of the police, not the ISPs. A while ago, (late 90's?) the police threatened to raid an ISP and bring them to court for distributing illegal publications as a test case. Note the use of the phrase "test case": the police had no idea what the answer was, ie if the ISPs were legally responsible. Regardless of the legalities, it is likely that the unlucky ISP who got raided would have gone out of business or been severly damaged.
As a response, the ISPs set up the IWF to filter with the blessing of the police. The real travesty is that the police have managed to bully the majority of the ISPs in to filtering with absoloutely no government oversight whatsoever.
So if you want to put the blame where it belongs, blame the police for this, and blame the government for not fixing it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
