BT announced today that they are thwarting 35000 attempts a day to access child pornography on the net.
While I do not deny that pornography is a growing problem; in fact I have said that I wanted to Make Pornography History, (let alone child porn) any webmaster will know that web stats are at best misleading. This article on the BBC leads us to people that 35000 paedophiles a day are out there trying to feed their vice. BT must surely know that this is not the case, so why use the big number?
Maybe, as the blog of Methodist minister Richard Hall suggests, that it has something to do with them trying to plug cleanfeed; BT’s new filtering product.
Surely they would not sink so low?
