EU To Fork Out Cash For "Child-Safe Web" scheme

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In a follow up to a previous initiative the EU will be launching a new scheme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7270790.stm

The European Commission is spending 55m euros (£42m) on making the net a safer place for children.
The money will be spent over four years on educational efforts and ways to protect children from inappropriate content and cyber bullying.

It will also research the ways that children use the net on computers and other devices such as mobile phones.
The broad-based project will build on the Safer Internet Programme the EU began in 2000

I,m sure many will benefit from this educational drive, after all the web is a great place but its never wise to view the entire internet with rose-coloured specs for too long.

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42 million over 4 years is a drop in the ocean compaired to what should be spent on tackling such an important issue. Perhaps the isp`s should contribute towards this as its their service that this problem occurs on..... afterall they are not exactly giving the consumers value for money charging for services they cant supply ( or legally called "fair usage") so a helping hand in making our children's lives a little more safe would go a long way to making up for this.