New Zealand moves forward with child porn filtering system

New Zealand is hopping on the child porn filtering bandwagon after it apparently went over so well in Australia (*cough*). The proposed scheme will involve filtering at the ISP level, comparing Internet requests against an unpublished blacklist maintained by New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs.

The department announced earlier this week its official plans to launch the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System, though it had begun discussing the system earlier this year. The program has been tested in trials across the country, and now a number of major ISPs are looking into the implementation. This list includes Yahoo!, Xtra, TelstraClear and Vodafone—when combined, these ISPs cover some 93 percent of New Zealand’s Internet connections. Use of the blacklist is voluntary.

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