panGloss: What are the police for? Twitter, abuse and reporting buttons

panGloss: What are the police for? Twitter, abuse and reporting buttons: "What exactly do we have police for, then, if not to investigate specific, repeated and documented crimes? Giving up on policing Twitter is no more defensible than abandoning  a town like, say, Walthamstow to the criminal elements.
For a senior policeman, Mr Trotter also seems sadly ignorant of the law. Even leaving aside the issue of threat of rape as a common law crime, which might involve some difficult issues of sufficiently proving intention (though not many), the Protection Against Harassment Act 1997, especially s 4(1) makes it very clear that two attempts to "cause another to fear that violence will be used against him [sic] " form a course of conduct which is a crime. In the Perez and Creasy cases there are apparently hundreds of such threatening tweets, many retweeted or screencapped." 'via Blog this'

Child Internet Safety and Censorship Measures Unveiled for UK ISPs

UPD New Child Internet Safety and Censorship Measures Unveiled for UK ISPs - ISPreview UK: "Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Right Group: “Cameron’s announcement is symptomatic of the way the Internet is viewed and treated by policy makers. The technical challenges and consequences of policies are viewed as less important than the moral purpose justifying calls for action. Policies are announced before they have been properly considered. And worse, these announcements risk being another case of blaming the commercial intermediaries because that is easier and cheaper than doing what is really necessary.”" 'via Blog this'