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international, 764 European 765 and national 766 cyber security centres. Private parties do not want legislation
and regulations and interventions against child pornography to affect their services on the Internet
and create high costs, but wish them to come into being because the market wants them to. 767 At the
same time, digital civil rights movements and the Internet community are involved in the debate on
Internet governance. They are generally propagating ideas based on the principle of a ‘self-cleaning
Internet’. These actors are not represented in consultative bodies, such as the Internet Safety Platform,
but are actively considering various ideas for measures to tackle child pornography. 768 From the discussion
about blocking websites involving child abuse material, it comes to the fore that this interplay of
forces in the area of Internet governance also plays a role in the combating of child abuse material on
the Internet.
Interplay of forces
The Dutch public-private sector partnership recently received a new impetus from the idea of blocking
websites involving abusive content. The blocking of websites involving child abuse material was
part of the desire to arrive at a more comprehensive approach towards combating the production and
consumption of child abuse material, see the ‘Filtering and blocking’ box below. The Ministry of Security
and Justice, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and ECP-EPN 769 assigned the Andersson Elffers Felix
consultancy firm the task of exploring the possibilities in order to arrive at a new public-private sector
partnership model for combating child pornography on the Internet. The research outlines a frame of
reference for blocking child abuse content, which can also serve as a broader and more comprehensive
form of collaboration. 770 The frame of reference briefly describes the forces at play with regard to the
combating of child pornography on the Internet. The government, private partners and social organisations
feature amongst these forces at play. The consultancy firm concluded that between the parties
764 ‘VS wil wereldwijde aanpak van cybercrime’ [US wants global approach to tackle cybercrime] Tweakers, 17
May 2011, tweakers.net/nieuws/74484/vs-wil-wereldwijde-aanpak-van-cybercrime.html (viewed 31 May
2011).
765 ‘Toespraak eurocommissaris Malmström (binnenlandse zaken) over cyber-crime’ [Speech by the European Commissioner
Malmström (<strong>Home</strong> Affairs) about cyber-crime], European Com mission, 22 February 2011, www.
europa-nu.nl/id/vimphneganv0/nieuws/toespraak_eurocommissa ris_malmstrom?ctx=vh1alzift7wj
(viewed 31 May 2011).
766 ‘<strong>National</strong>e Cyber Security strategie gepresenteerd’ [<strong>National</strong> Cyber Security strategy presented] www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten-en-publicaties/persberichten/2011/02/22/nationale-cyber-security-strategiegepresenteerd.html
(viewed 31 May 2011).
767 The use of technology to filter child abuse material by ISPs – in addition to social responsibility – will
also be prompted by clients of ISPs and ISPs themselves, which do not wish to suffer financial loss as
a result of negative publicity.
768 See www.bof.nl/?s=kinderporno, (viewed 31 May 2011).
769 ECP-EPN is a platform where the government, the business world and civil society organisations exchange
knowledge and work together to promote the development of the Dutch information society.
Various projects, investigations and debates unite parties and put the social meaning of ICT on the
agendas of the government, the business world and civil society organisations. In this way, the platform
achieves breakthroughs and creates the pre-conditions as a result of which opportunities can be
utilised and threats can be removed; see www.ecp.nl (viewed 14 June 2011).
770 Andersson Elffers Felix, 2009.
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