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Deutsch: Löschen illegaler Seiten ist effizienter als Sperren

Eco, the Association of German Internet Economy, presented, in a press conference in Berlin on 1 September 2010, the situation related to fighting child pornography, reaching the conclusion that deleting was, in 98% of the cases, more efficient than blocking illegal sites.

Thus, out of 197 child pornography sites reported at the Eco Internet Complaint during the first half of 2010, 194 were offline in a week. "The Websites that are hosted on the German servers were offline regularly within one business day."

The main reason for this successful result is the establishment of "notice and takedown" procedures and the increase of national reporting offices. The hosting providers are more directly informed and they are more successful in deleting sites than the police.

This report only comes to confirm what it has lately been constantly repeated by ISPs, Internet users, associations and specialists that blocking sites is an inefficient measure. Several associations such as EDRi or MOGiS have argued in several occasions (as it was the case of the draft directive proposed by European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström to establish blocking at the European level) that blocking is a useless and costly measure that can be easily by-passed and which does not treat the problem, while causing censureship issues.

Eco: Delete works up to 98% (only in German, 1.09.2010)
http://www.netzpolitik.org:80/2010/eco-loschen-funktioniert-zu-98/

Germany: Deleting instead of blocking is more efficient (only in French, 2.09.2010)
http://vasistas.wordpress.com:80/2010/09/02/allemagne-la-suppression-a...

Delete, don't block (30.03.2010)
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/220161-delete-don-t-block

EDRi-gram: EDRi sends open letter to EU Commissioners to oppose Internet blocking (10.03.2010)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.5/edri-open-letter-internet-block...