Filtering in Austria

After discussing Internet censorship in class and what different countries filter, I was curious to see what the European states filter, opposed to China or Iran. It was a little surprising to find out that Great Britain filters Internet content that has to do with images of child abuse. This was in 2007, and it was voluntary for search engines to block. The online surveillance expanded to filter out child pornography. According to the webisite some 19 European countries assisted in helping identify illegal online content. In Austria, authorities uncovered a child-pornography ring which involved some seventy-seven countries. This was all based on a report by a man working for a Vienna-based Internet file-hosting service.