If nothing else, this will somewhat nobble the “OMG, how did THAT get on my conputer?” excuse.
I do not doubt it. What I doubt is that there’s any child porn to be found this way. It would be ludicrously stupid to let your child porn be searchable. And if you were that stupid, you’d be busted in no time. So I suspect that these filters won’t filter anything of interest.
What I think they will filter :
-Sites falsely advertizing child porn to attract customers
-Legal stuff actually appealing to pedophiles (stories, mangas, whatever…)
-As a side effect, legal stuff that isn’t intended to appeal to pedophiles. I don’t have any particular example, but it is well known that every time “moral” filters are implemented, this happens. For instance will the search terms “child porn” be blocked? If yes, it’s going to block mostly news stories, NGOs involved in child protection, etc… If not, what prevents me from searching child porn this way?
Finally, assuming that there’s child porn to be found with search engines, only the most casuals child porn seekers are going to be hindered. To begin with, there are other search engines besides google and bing. And as mentioned in the article, social networks. And the “dark web”. And IRC channels. Etc…
Too late to edit : Maybe, maybe it could be a deterent for those very casual child porn seekers. Receiving a message stating essentially “We’ve seen you, you perv! Stop searching for child porn” might make them think twice.
But I don’t really believe it. It seems to me to be just another instance of the current child abuse hysteria. The one that resulted in some Australian guy being sentenced for having porn pictures of the Simpsons on his computer, for instance. I can see access to Simpson porn being reduced by whatever Google and Bing are implementing.
No idea how this works, but surely they are trying to block results that show child porn, not results that show news stories or organisation home pages. Visually, they are pretty different.
The problem, as far as I understand the article, is that they don’t block the results, but the queries themselves.
pedos are NOT about “underage models” It’s not about jerking off to say a hot girl who is 17…rather its about young teens or children…
It seems like a lot of pedos can be rather asperger syndromy with their behavoirs…so it doesn’t suprise me that lots of them might do stupid stuff
Probably a net bad thing, only because it’s probably only going to block things that should be protected by free speech anyway (drawings, literature, 3d-art, etc) even when there are laws against it. But, meh. Google and Bing can do whatever they want to their search algorithms.
They’re fucking immature assholes.