Pope Francis has called on tech giants to prevent children
from being able to access porn online so easily.
Speaking at the Promoting Digital Child Dignity conference
in the Vatican recently, he called for action to be taken on kids’ exposure to
porn sites online.
He said: “There is a need to ensure that investors and
managers remain accountable, so that the good of minors and society is not
sacrificed to profit.
“For the sake of advancing the development of the internet
and its many benefits, companies that provide services have long considered
themselves mere suppliers of technological platforms, neither legally nor
morally responsible for the way they are used.”
He continued: “It is now clear that they cannot consider
themselves completely unaccountable vis-a-vis the services they provide for
their customers. So I make an urgent appeal to them to assume their
responsibility towards minors, their integrity and their future.”
The Pope said that
the balancing of free expression and privacy online is a “crucial aspect” of
digital life and also raised fears about increased use of encryption which
would make “any control extremely difficult, if not impossible”.
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