Rallied by the British government, Internet access providers in the UK are to finance Safety-Net, a body formed to make it possible to limit access to pornography on the Internet. Safety-Net will have a hotline to which callers can report suspected illegal material and it will contact police if necessary; it will also publish a legality indicator or rating for each a Usenet news group, indicating whether the group normally contains illegal or pornographic material and of what kind, and Internet users can use the hotline to complain about material received from anyone via an automatic telephone, mail, electronic mail or facsimile, and Safety-Net operators will try to discover where the material came from, contact the authors and ask them to remove it, and can ask the relevant service provider to take action and pass details to the UK Police National Criminal Intelligence Service.
