62% Increase in access to child pornography in Ireland

[Alterego]

Just listening to Kevin Myers on Newstalk now - the claim is that there is a 62% increase in access to child pornography in Ireland...disgusting!

[johnfás]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0722/pornography.html

The report is carried there. From my reading of it, it is saying that there is a 62% increase in reportings of child pornography to the appropriate body, presumably by people who came across it by mistake. Not that there is a 62% increase in people looking it up, or indeed availability.

[polito123]

What's the disgusting part? listening to Myers' voice or the facts??!!

Sorry! Yes it is a rather disgusting fact, but we seem to have more than our fair share of sick, disgusting people in this country.

[CelticAtheist]

The internet, gentlemen.

If you like it, you can find it here, is the sad truth.
Sicko kiddie porn lovers + bullets travelling at high velocities = happy ending...

[Slartibuckfast]

Did Kevin blame it on Gerry Adams or them bloody wogs?

[aef1]

You always have to be careful with stats like that there is just an increase in the known levels, its impossible to know the actual levels

[cyberianpan]

The ISPAI, which represents Internet Service Providers in Ireland, received over 800 reports of illegal material on the Internet last year.

This is a non story, we don't even know which of the 718 were in fact kiddie porn .... this could be down to the ISPs increasing the prominence of the "report kidde porn" button on their home pages. The reports then could have been bogus (e.g. complaining about pics from a kiddies birthday party or "just18.com" etc).

Then the RTE Silly Season Editor spins it as:

There has been a dramatic increase in the volume and severity of child pornography on the Internet.

cYp