ABSTRACT
This chapter provides self-regulatory initiatives in relation to the fight against Internet child pornography. Industry self-regulation, with the development of industry-wide codes of conduct and hotlines for reporting illegal content such as child pornography, has been seen as an additional tool to aid the objective of combating Internet child pornography and bolster state regulation. The chapter explores these issues from a UK, North American and European perspective with the main focus on the development of industry-wide codes of conduct to combat illegal Internet content and the development of Internet hotlines to report child pornography. It discusses the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) members are required to adhere to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) procedure. IWF launched its hotline for reporting illegal material on the Internet in December 1996, and the foundation received charitable status in 2005. Though useful at one level, the IWF statistics reveal little about the actual amount of child pornography on the Internet.
