{"id":51529,"date":"2014-12-11T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1b777c356de60debb9af095a6c100e03"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:31:40","slug":"speech-weprotect-children-online-global-summit-prime-ministers-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51529","title":{"rendered":"Speech: #WeProtect Children Online Global Summit: Prime Minister&#8217;s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Thank you very much Ernie and thank you for all the work that you\u2019ve done over so many years to keep children safe.  You\u2019re absolutely right; I approach this issue as a politician, as a prime minister, but I also approach it as a dad.  I\u2019ve got a 10 year old, an 8 year old and a 4 year old, and I want them to grow up with safe streets, but I want them to grow up with a safe internet, too.  And that is what today is all about.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"global-summit\">Global summit<\/h2>\n<p>And frankly, a global gathering like this is long overdue.  We have international summits to stamp out drug dealing, to beat modern day slavery, and this is another major international crime of our age.  The online exploitation of children is happening on an almost industrial scale.  There are networks spanning the world, children abused to order.  One criminal gang in the Philippines was arranging the sexual abuse of children, filming it, and then live\u2011streaming it to paying customers across the world, making thousands of pounds out of these disgusting crimes.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find our more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/ending-online-child-sexual-exploitation-uk-leads-global-summit-in-london-weprotect-children-online\">#WeProtect Children Online Summit<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/number10gov\/sets\/72157649297896200\">view photos from the day.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, that gang was cracked.  The trail started when a police officer here in the UK searched a sex offender\u2019s computer and found some footage.  From there, we launched a global investigation named Operation Endeavour involving our own national crime agency, US immigration and customs enforcement, the Australian federal police, and the Philippines\u2019 national police force.  That operation arrested 29 people worldwide and most important of all, 15 children in the Philippines, as young as 6 years old, were rescued from what was a living nightmare.  <\/p>\n<p>This episode shows just how dark, how devious, and how widespread this crime is.  But it also shows what we can achieve if we act together.  This is a global crime, so it needs global action.  We need to throw the net so wide that there is nowhere for these paedophiles to hide.  And that is why this summit is I think such an important moment.  More than 50 countries, 26 leading technology companies, 10 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), all coming together to agree an unprecedented package of measures.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"landmark-agreement-against-online-child-abuse\">Landmark agreement against online child abuse<\/h2>\n<p>This landmark agreement we\u2019re signing amounts to nothing less than a global war against online child abuse.  And this is a war we can only win if we fight it together.  And we\u2019re fighting on 3 main fronts.  First, blocking search results that lead to child abuse.  Second, identifying the illegal images and taking them down.  And third chasing down the perpetrators and enforcing the law.  Today I want to set out the great progress that we\u2019ve made and will continue to make on each front.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"blocking-search-results\">Blocking search results<\/h2>\n<p>First, blocking search results.  Until recently, it was incredibly easy for people to search the internet for child abuse and get results.  And even sometimes have their search terms automatically completed for them.  It was appalling.  And yet, when we talked about changing it, a lot of people said, \u2018Can\u2019t be done.  You can\u2019t police the internet.  You can\u2019t infringe internet freedoms in any way.\u2019  But we said you can\u2019t have the freedom to search for vile material trumping a child\u2019s freedom to have an innocent childhood.  So I made very clear the industry would have to find a way to block these search results and if they didn\u2019t then we would look at legislation.  <\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m glad to say it hasn\u2019t come to that.  In fact, internet companies have gone above and beyond what we asked of them.  95% of online searches are processed by Google and Microsoft, and these companies have led the way.  They stopped the autocomplete technology from finishing the search terms of those looking for child abuse.  They then came up with new algorithms to block illegal images and videos.  And Google now apply this to searches made in 40 different languages, so automatically checking against millions of search terms every single day.  <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are increasing the size of their blacklist to 10\u2019s of 1,000\u2019s of terms, none of which will return any child abuse results at all.  When people do search for this, they\u2019re confronted with pages warning them off, telling them they\u2019re breaking the law.  And because it\u2019s getting harder to look for this material, Google have seen a fivefold reduction in these searches over the last year.  So I think these are big steps forward.  They\u2019re proving that the internet doesn\u2019t have to be a place that is beyond the pale or beyond the law.  And I want to thank the internet companies for making this happen.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"identifying-illegal-images\">Identifying illegal images<\/h2>\n<p>Now the second front we\u2019re fighting on is identifying the illegal images so we can take them down.  You need organisations people can report these images to.  You need databases to help them tagging and sharing information and you need to be proactive in actually rooting these images out.  Here in the UK, we\u2019ve made real progress on all fronts.  We\u2019ve got an excellent reporting organisation in the Internet Watch Foundation (<abbr title=\"Internet Watch Foundation\">IWF<\/abbr>), which has doubled the number of images that it\u2019s taken down in the past 12 months from 13,000 images in 2013 to 27,000 this year.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to funding from internet companies, the <abbr title=\"Internet Watch Foundation\">IWF<\/abbr>, the Internet Watch Foundation, is now not just taking reports of child abuse images, but proactively getting out there and looking for them.  We\u2019ve got a new, single national database of images where police forces can share this information and thanks to Microsoft\u2019s photo DNA technology, we\u2019re now able to take down the unique digital fingerprint of each picture and use that information to search for and delete those images wherever they are.  Like I say, real progress.  But the landmark agreement today puts rocket boosters under it, worldwide.  Forty\u2011one countries have agreed that hotlines like the one run by Internet Watch Foundation are essential, which means millions more people will be able to report any images that they stumble across.  <\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to storing that information, 41 nations have agreed that they will set up national databases of their own or contribute to an international system such as the one run by Interpol.  Just think what this means: we\u2019re going to have a global database of illegal images allowing us to join up the dots across borders.  We\u2019re going to be able to identify and take down many more images and that will totally accelerate our fight against this appalling and evil trade.  <\/p>\n<p>And there is more.  As well as the digital fingerprinting of photos, Google confirmed today that they\u2019re introducing video hashing technology, with Yahoo piloting this immediately.  So just as we can identify these sickening photos, so we\u2019ll be able to do the same for videos.  And with that information we can scour the internet for all this material and have it taken down forever.  Information truly is power.  <\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to taking all this known child abuse material off the internet, there is another great breakthrough in this agreement.  Three major companies, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla, have agreed to work together to look at how they can block these images at the browser level.  This means that Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox would have built\u2011in restrictions to block access to known child abuse material.  And like so much else we\u2019re agreeing today, this would be a game\u2011changer.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"law-enforcement\">Law enforcement<\/h2>\n<p>Now the third and crucial front we\u2019re fighting on is law enforcement.  When it comes to the exploitation of children online, indeed any crime online, there has sometimes been a sense that these aren\u2019t like real\u2011life crimes.  But that is completely wrong.  What is illegal offline is illegal online.  And every single one of these images that people look at, every single one of these images is a crime scene.  That\u2019s why we\u2019ve got to enforce the laws across every medium.  Whether it\u2019s peer\u2011to\u2011peer networks, the so\u2011called \u2018dark net\u2019, or the open internet.  <\/p>\n<p>Here in the UK, the National Crime Agency (<abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr>) does brilliant work to pursue and destroy paedophile networks.  Operation Notarise continues to be a success with over 700 people arrested so far.  But this success, frankly, it also demonstrates just how great the challenge is.  So I can announce today we\u2019re committing an additional \u00a310 million next year to create further specialist teams in our National Crime Agency.  And these teams will focus on the worst offenders sharing this horrific material.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"new-joint-national-crime-agency-and-gchq-team\">New joint National Crime Agency and <abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr> team<\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to the so\u2011called \u2018dark net\u2019, the National Security Council that I chair has already made this a security priority and I can announce today that we\u2019ve created a new joint team between the National Crime Agency and Government Communications Headquarters (<abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr>), using all the techniques and expertise we use to track down terrorists, using all those techniques, to track down paedophiles as well.  This builds on some excellent joint work that\u2019s already been done.  <\/p>\n<p>In one investigation, <abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr> and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (<abbr title=\"Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre\">CEOP<\/abbr>), now part of <abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr>, became aware of an individual in the UK who was sharing child abuse images.  He ran chat services in the Far East and in Eastern Europe.  He was offering advice to other paedophiles on how to hide their behaviour.  And he was doing it all under the cloak on online anonymity.  Analysis by <abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre\">CEOP<\/abbr> successfully led to his identification and arrest and he was sent to prison for his crimes.  <\/p>\n<p>And on the open internet, we\u2019re being just as robust.  We\u2019re legislating to criminalise the possession of sickening so\u2011called \u2018paedophile training manuals\u2019.  These are circulated in criminal networks.  They instruct paedophiles on how to conduct their crimes, and with this government, simply owning one of these manuals will be a crime.  We\u2019re also boosting the powers that organisations like the National Crime Agency have to locate paedophiles.  This will ensure that whether they\u2019re accessing child abuse images on their phone or on their computer, the <abbr title=\"National Crime Agency\">NCA<\/abbr> is able to pinpoint, find and arrest them.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"changing-the-law\">Changing the law<\/h2>\n<p>And today I can announce we\u2019re taking another, important step.  We\u2019ve seen an increasing and alarming phenomenon of paedophiles contacting children online over the internet or on their mobile phone.  And there can be no grey areas here.  If you ask a child to take their clothes off and send you a picture, you are as guilty as if you did that in person.  So we\u2019re going to change the law.  Just as it is illegal to produce and possess images of child abuse, now we\u2019re making it illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child.  This law will make it clear this is a crime and you will be arrested and prosecuted if you take part in it.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"global-law-enforcement\">Global law enforcement<\/h2>\n<p>And here today, by signing this agreement, we\u2019re seeing big changes in law enforcement on the global level too.  A range of countries have committed to create dedicated law enforcement response to child abuse images.  From Europe to America to Asia to Africa, the same message is going out: there is nowhere to hide.  Child exploitation online is a real crime, for which there is real punishment.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"child-protection-fund\">Child protection fund<\/h2>\n<p>Now of course, there are real victims too.  Three\u2011quarters of them are thought to be under 10 years old.  And their lives are absolutely shattered by these appalling crimes.  That\u2019s why an important part of this global agreement is a commitment to identify and protect more victims.  A new global child protection fund will play a vital role in this work and I want to thank UNICEF for leading its development.  <\/p>\n<p>But of course, action always speaks louder than words, so I can confirm today that the UK will be the first and the most major donor to the fund with a pledge of \u00a350 million over the next 5 years.  This is money that will help put those lives back together again and I\u2019m proud that Britain is pledging it and once again leading the way.  So I want you to \u2013 thank you.  <\/p>\n<p>So I want you to leave this summit later today proud about what has been achieved.  Together we\u2019ve said, \u2018The internet is not like some weather system that is beyond human control.  It is in our own hands to make it safer and to protect children around the world.\u2019  Because that\u2019s what we must remember at events like this.  In our meetings, in our groups, in our discussions.  We must remember there are children out there, vulnerable children, who are counting on us to get this right.  Every single child is precious.  Every child deserves a childhood.  To have that window of innocence and to be protected from harm.  <\/p>\n<p>So for their sake, as long as I\u2019m Prime Minister, I will make sure the United Kingdom is at the forefront of this fight. Together we must pledge to see this through, to clean up the internet, to keep those children safe.  So thank you for coming to London.  Thank you for all the work you\u2019ve done so far.  I\u2019m absolutely convinced if we stick together we can continue this work.  Together we can beat this appalling scourge.  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you very much.  Good morning.  Right honourable Prime Minister first of all I would like to congratulate you for taking a lead and such a powerful strength that you are pushing behind it is indeed very \u2013 you need to be congratulated for that.  And I wish to extend my support in your initiative.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-1\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>Protecting our children on line from exploitation on internet indeed is something that we want to all work on and Pakistan extends its support in your initiative.  And you will find us all there in cooperating and collaborating and making it a really successful initiative from our side.<\/p>\n<p>We are a population of 180 million and our youth are less than \u2013 are about 60% who are age \u2013 who are under 25.  And about 80 million children waiting for our support on this issue.  It is indeed welcoming to find government and security agencies, NGOs and particularly the technology companies coming forward and taking a proactive initiative on that.  Supporting the cause is not just, for me as a Foreign Minister, but also as a mother of 3 is very important.<\/p>\n<p>I wish to highlight here that whilst we are taking a multi\u2011stakeholder approach, there are technology ministries and their respective regulators who also play a vital role in regulating content online.  But I do find this aspect missing from our conversations and meetings here.  So is there a proposal to consider the technology ministries and their respective regulators to be brought into the fold?  And secondly is there a consideration to remove the images altogether from the internet, rather than just blocking the images? Because when you block the images in 1 place it remains visible on another.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-1\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Yes.  Thank you.  Well thank you very much for your words and thank you for your participation and everything Pakistan is doing.  And I know that you\u2019re taking some specific steps in terms of law and practice which is very worthwhile.  On your 2 questions, first of all, how do we make sure we involve technology ministries and regulators as well as law enforcement agencies?  I think this is absolutely vital.  We only made progress in Britain when we stopped just thinking of this as a sort of interior ministry legal approach.  We only really made progress when we involve technology ministries, when we involve the companies themselves, when we got everyone round the table and said, \u2018Look, we\u2019ve all got the same goal here.  How do we protect children?  How do we get rid of these images?  How do we stop child abuse online?  Obviously, we don\u2019t want to reach immediately for big legislative solutions.  Tell us what is possible technically.\u2019  And it was that I think that led to the breakthrough of the internet companies saying, \u2018Look, I see what you want now.  You want to stop the use of disgusting search terms returning a result.  We\u2019ll help you do that.\u2019  Because if you have the technology companies working with you, you can actually protect many more people by taking that action without having the sort of blunderbuss of legislation.  So I think it\u2019s absolutely vital.  In every country you need to involve regulators, internet companies and all of that.<\/p>\n<p>Your second question, how do we remove the images?  Well my understanding and this is very difficult technical stuff.  Where we\u2019ve got to now in the UK but potentially internationally, is our Internet Watch Foundation is now no longer just receiving images from people who are concerned.  They are actually going out and looking for them and because we have the cooperation of the technology companies and the internet companies, we are now physically taking those pictures down.  And what I said in my speech about these unique digital fingerprints of each photograph and each video it means that once you take it down it goes from everywhere rather than having to take down every image individually.  So again, it comes to this thing of politicians, regulators, internet companies working together to deliver the greatest possible impact for our children.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-2\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>As a parent of young children do you think that the internet is the biggest threat to their safety?  And what steps do you take at home to protect children?  And isn\u2019t there a limit to what the government can do?  Shouldn\u2019t parents do more?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-2\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Look, I think children growing up in our world today, there are lots of threats they face and the difficulty of being a parent today is the threats are evolving.  You know, I\u2019m only 48 so I don\u2019t want to sound too much like a fuddy duddy but obviously when I grew up the question was, you know, \u2018Could you help Dad to work the Betamax video recorder?\u2019  And after a while aged 10 or something you mastered that art.  Now you\u2019ve got tablets, iPads, iPhones, DSs.  You\u2019ve got so many different devices in the house and so you\u2019ve got a whole set of new things you have to do to try and make sure our children are safe.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019ve done, like many families, is try to apply these new filters that are available, which, you know, they are working.  This \u2013 the last time we had one of these conferences we were addressing this whole issue of how to have controls that automatically switched on that you had to disable.  That is now happening so that is making a big difference.  But in the end there is no substitute.  You know the government must play its part.  We\u2019ve got to help parents do what they want to do but at the end of the day, parents and children have to talk to each other about internet use and staying safe online.<\/p>\n<p>But that is difficult for parents because we\u2019re still learning a lot about the internet ourselves.  And so I think there is a huge role for schools and there are some excellent organisations here today that are helping explain in school about how to stay safe.  And that\u2019s information that needs to be given to parents as well as to children.  So we\u2019re all finding our way.  The government is trying to help.  I would argue that in the last few years we\u2019ve made some really big leaps forward in helping parents to keep their children safe online but there\u2019s certainly more work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>More points or questions?  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-3\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>Could I first of all thank you for your personal support over the last 18 months for my organisation which has made a huge difference?  As you\u2019ve said the contribution made by industry has been crucial in moving us forward on all of this and you\u2019ve described how we have moved forward.  A very simple question for you, would you support the idea of another conference like this in say 18 months in order for us to be held to account for the pledges that we make here today?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-3\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Yes I would.  Look, there are lots of international conferences that take place in the world and sometimes you feel that there\u2019s an international conference for the sake of having an international conference.  I think this is not the case because I think what we\u2019ve seen here is we\u2019ve got a new crime as it were, or relatively new crime, exploiting children online which has grown in its scale and complexity.  And what I think we\u2019ve demonstrated here is that if governments and industry work together there\u2019s a massive amount you can do to block it, stop it and set it back.  And I think that\u2019s only happened because of getting countries and governments and internet companies together so it makes very good sense to have subsequent conferences to check up on the progress we\u2019ve made.  But also to recognise that everything we do will be followed by a response by the perpetrators who will find new parts of the internet to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>So I think the purpose of another conference and as I understand it the United Arab Emirates are keen to host a conference, and I\u2019m very grateful to them for that.  The purpose of the conference, we need to check up on action, accountability but also to work out what more technological sophistication we need to beat paedophiles at their horrendous efforts.  And that\u2019s where I think involving organisations like Government Communications Headquarters (<abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr>) I think is going to be absolutely key to the sophistication.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-4\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>We have seen reports in the States of senior British politicians, shall we say conflating the issue of the sharing of child safety \u2013 child sexual abuse images with the exchanges of terrorists on social media sites.  Could you reassure us that the work of this summit and beyond will not stray into this very different area of terrorist communications?  Or for that matter, legal but potentially harmful content such as adult pornography?<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-4\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Well first of all what I\u2019d say is, look, let\u2019s stand back a bit and think what are we trying to achieve here?  We\u2019re trying to make sure that when something is a crime it is prosecuted and convicted wherever it takes place.  And my view is that that should happen whether it\u2019s online or offline so we should try and apply the same rules across whether you\u2019re visiting a shop in the high street or whether you\u2019re visiting a store on the internet.  That\u2019s the principle and that is where I think we\u2019ve made some huge steps forward.  So this is not about changing the rules on, you know, adult pornography.  That\u2019s not what we\u2019re discussing today.  I feel that it\u2019s very important.  In Britain we have rules about how you can buy pornography in a shop and I think we should try and make sure that you apply those rules when you try and buy pornography online.  You have the same rules.  So you protect young people.  So that\u2019s the principle we\u2019re trying to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Now I think there is a big challenge of tackling child abuse online which we\u2019re talking about today.  There is also a big challenge of tackling terrorism online.  Some of the same techniques will be necessary.  They will have to involve working together, internet companies, governments, law enforcement agencies.  But they are different subjects.  But sometimes the same techniques will apply.  Just as the internet companies have said they will not now return search items for disgusting child abuse terms so I think there is a role for internet companies to try and work out when people are obviously plotting terrorism online of making sure that is blocked and having \u2013 feeling a social responsibility to report.  <\/p>\n<p>If someone is online or offline, if someone is sitting in your pub plotting a bomb attack I think, you know, the publican would feel some moral obligation I would hope to tell someone to prevent the loss of life. And that \u2013 I know it\u2019s more complicated, running an online chat room than running a pub, but there\u2019s the principle we should apply \u2013 try and apply principles of common sense and decency and moral responsibility to the internet as we do to real life.<\/p>\n<p>So there are some similarities, but to be clear, today we\u2019re here talking about child abuse online.  There\u2019s separate work we\u2019re doing with internet companies on terrorism and combating extremism, some of the same techniques will apply, but they are 2 different conversations, if that gives you any reassurance.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-5\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>I want to start by thanking you for your leadership in this area, and also earlier in the year on child marriage and female genital mutilation and cutting; a specific question to the legislation which we learned about overnight on the solicitation of images from children and a question I have, in part because I have a teenage daughter \u2013<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-5\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Right.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-6\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>What are we doing when children lie about their age and, from them, who say they are adult, images are solicited, what does the legislation say about that?  Thank you.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-6\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Well, the legislation we haven\u2019t passed yet \u2013 what we\u2019ve announced today is the intention to legislate, but the intention is simple, which is trying to make sure the law stays up to date with the abuses that are taking place.  So the abuse that\u2019s taking place at the moment, and we read a lot about it, and there\u2019s clearly a lot of it happening, which is adults online persuading children to take off their clothes and send pictures, and we\u2019ve come to the conclusion that it\u2019s necessary to make that an offence, because otherwise people might be able to slip through the net \u2013 although there are other crimes they\u2019d be committing when they do that online, it seems to me a new offence is necessary.  <\/p>\n<p>How do we do more to try and stop people lying about their age?  Well, there\u2019s a very good exhibition I\u2019ve just been shown outside, which is \u2013 there is actually some technological solutions we can apply online, for when you\u2019ve got, say a 50 year old man pretending to be a 14 year old boy, of trying to have a piece of technology that can identify that, either by matching the IP address or the way that they are addressing a particular issue to warn the child in question.  <\/p>\n<p>So I suspect, as I\u2019ve been saying before, what we need here, if we stand back again and think right what are we trying to achieve to keep people safe, in the end it\u2019s going to be, the law can\u2019t solve everything, it\u2019s going to be a combination of legal changes where necessary, technological advance where possible, and everywhere a change in culture, and this is where whether we\u2019re acting as parents or politicians or NGOs or organisations, we need a culture change about what is unacceptable behaviour, and that\u2019s a very important part of getting this right.  Last question.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"question-7\">Question<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, in some countries, in remote areas I mean, there is no access to the internet, but there is in increase in sexual abuses.  Is this a part of our job as well?  That\u2019s my question.  <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"prime-minister-7\">Prime Minister<\/h2>\n<p>Yes.  Very good point.  Because today we\u2019re focusing on online child abuse, this doesn\u2019t mean we should forget about the child abuse that\u2019s taking place in communities right across the world that is far removed from the internet.  So that work needs to continue, international cooperation needs to continue.<\/p>\n<p>I think why this summit is so important is that the internet has enabled child abuse to take place on the other side of the world, sometimes in countries where, for whatever reason, there\u2019s a less developed criminal justice and law enforcement, to take place in that country, and then for those criminals to use the internet to make some sick, appalling but regrettably large financial return on what they\u2019re doing.  <\/p>\n<p>And so 1 of the reasons why this conference is necessary is the internet has just enabled this sick activity to become an international trade, rather than something that just happens within nation states.<\/p>\n<p>We should continue to go after both, but I fear if we didn\u2019t do the things we\u2019re doing here, if we didn\u2019t have more cooperation between law enforcement, more work by internet companies, more use, frankly, of some of the very sophisticated intelligence and communications agencies that we have like <abbr title=\"Government Communications Headquarters\">GCHQ<\/abbr>, if we didn\u2019t do that, what we\u2019d see is a growth of this crime area driven by the fact that the internet makes it possible for a crime to take place in 1 country, for it to be viewed in another country and for payment to be transferred between the 2.  That new development, or relatively new development, has made this all the more urgent, which is why we\u2019re discussing this today.  <\/p>\n<p>Can I thank everyone again for coming, for the very good work that\u2019s been done, Believe me, after 4 and a half years of being Prime Minister I\u2019ve been to lots of summits, lots of conferences, lots of action plans, but I think here, when you look at where we were a year ago or 2 years ago on what people could search for online that\u2019s no longer possible, about how many pictures were available on the internet that have been taken down, and now we start to look at, actually at the browser level, stopping \u2013 making it impossible for people to find these images through the browsers that are used on the internet.  These, I think, on anyone\u2019s book are really big breakthroughs.  <\/p>\n<p>The truth is though, while you\u2019ve got the dark net that we have to further police, investigate and prosecute people on, and while you\u2019ve got some countries that aren\u2019t signed up to these rules, we\u2019ll never fully crack it, so those are the next 2 things we\u2019ve got to really get to grips with, and to encourage every single country in the world to take the steps that all of you have signed up to today.  <\/p>\n<p>So thank you very much for coming, I think it\u2019s been a really great summit and conference, huge progress has been made, and that\u2019s because of the hard work of people here in the United Kingdom, and right across the world, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart; what you\u2019re doing will keep many more children safe, will stop so many victims of this sick trade of being made in the first place, and that is, I think, a very good 2 days work.  Thank you very much.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PM spoke about new measures to eradicate online child abuse including blocking search results, identifying images and law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}