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[ramtops]

from BBC news, Police to monitor net chat rooms - which I rather thought they did already ..

but what caught my eye was this:

"He says the police are also stepping up efforts to persuade banks to withdraw credit cards from people who use them to pay for child pornography on websites."

is it just me who thinks this is just *wrong* ?

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[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

I heard a bit on that in Woman's Hour last week. A woman representing a card fraud division of a bank (I think) pointed out that the purchase of child pornography doesn't exactly show up on a bank statement as "Child Pornography Inc.", and is much more likely to be hidden as a florist, music downloads, online books, etc. Not to mention that every online store I've ever seen just says "We accept Visa / Mastercard", not "We accept the WWF Mastercard from the Weston-Super-Mare Lloyds TSB". Even if yanking the card was a good idea (which I don't think it is), why should it be the responsibility of the bank and not Mastercard? Given how much junk mail I get congratulating me that I Have Been Approved, I hardly think that the loss of a single credit card would stop someone from using another one. As others have pointed out, conviction and jail should be the result of a felony.