Dutch to get tough on hosting companies with child porn clients

The Dutch public prosecution department is going to get tougher on website hosting companies which allow child pornography on their servers, the Financieele Dagblad said on Tuesday. The department receives some 25,000 reports of child pornography a year and says this is being partly facilitated by providers who claim not to be aware of the problem. ‘We have been too cautious,’ public prosecutor Martijn Egberts told the paper. Currently some hosting companies only remove illegal material when ordered to do...