2008/12/8 Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com:
Surely the IWF is the kind of organisation that would prefer to be safely unknown, rather than publicised and questioned?
Sort of. They rely on "public reporting" of dubious material - which in itself begs the question, how often does someone stumble across child porn whilst browsing the internet? - and in order to report something you have to know you can report it to someone, so they have to publicise themselves, eg: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7689241.stm
That said, there's a difference between "we fight child porn, tell us about it" and "we'll filter national internet access on a whim" as far as publicity goes.