Microsoft Canada helps to stop Child Porn

Microsoft and the Mounties combine to track down child porn
A new software system aimed at tracking down paedophiles on the internet has been developed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with the help of Microsoft. The system, known as Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) was developed following a personal plea to Bill Gates by Sergeant Paul Gillespie, a Canadian Police Detective in 2003.
Following the plea by email, Gates ordered a Microsoft team to help out the Canadian law enforcement authorities to develop the customised program they needed.
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Ok so even though Microsoft is a big evil company and I prefer my linux OS's.... I can't dispute the fact that they give lots of money back in terms of chairties, donations, and various acts of good-will. I don't know if they do many of their donations strictly for the taxation benefits, or if they really want to help people, but when it comes down to it, a donation or helping hand is just that, regardless of motivation.

Good work to MS to help bust some child porn sickos.

I agree that the sickos who produce this crap should be locked up forever but I think the penaly for simply looking at it is a bit too harsh. If a person views child porn but never harms a child then what harm is done? The porn may be helping them to control their impulses to actually do something.

I listened to this story on the radio last week, I think it a great new tool.

As a viewer of the material, they are supporting the production of more. If they are actively searching for stuff, odds are someone will accomodate them. If you need drugs, there will always be a dealer to help you out...

You have got to be kidding nickfun, you actually believe thats its okay for an adult to look at child pornography. Tell me nickfun, did you ever consider the helpless human being in those photos and movies.

People who view child porn should be casterated.

That's the problem, something was done to the children in order to make the film/picture. Although it is a good point on having them control nasty urges, the ends doesn't justify the means.

I like the way they are helping out our law enforcement. Actually, I'm happy they are actually involved in something constructive.

As I said in my original post, they actually do quite a bit of good. I'll quite a few figures that were released in the NY times.

$1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.

$750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.

$350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America's K-12 education, starting in Washington State.

$200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America's poorest communities in an effort to close the "digital divide."

$100 million to the Gates Children's Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.

$50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.

$50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.

$50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.

$50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.

$40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.

$28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.

$25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.

$25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.

These numbers were taken from an article in the NY Times.

Thats a good way to put it canadian. To make child pornography you need to have victims, EVERY single time.

Skinners should all be executed publicly maybe they would think twice

Cheaper than keeping them in Prison.

I think they try to help as best as they know how. I saw on t.v. once, how they've only left a limited amount of $$$ to their kids. I think it was like 5 mil., which is drastically less than what people like the Hiltons get. I guess the Hilton sisters are are poster'children to why the Gates cut the inheritance.

Good Point... I may not agree with all his business practices, but honestly, he has helped drive the internet forward, and do a lot of good for the world, even if he does rip off the little guy and charge too much