The Japan Internet Providers Association held the "Seminar on Countermeasures against Illegal and Harmful Information on the Internet: From the Past to the Future, Focusing on Measures against Child Pornography" on Thursday, February 28 and Friday, March 1 at Kyoto Computer Gakuin Kyoto Ekimae Campus (10-5, Nishikujo Teranomae-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto, seven minutes walk from Kyoto Station Hachijo exit), co-organized by The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics and Kyoto Computer Gakuin.
The main topics of the lectures were as follows.
Thursday, February 28
13:00 - Greetings, background and purpose of this seminar
13:20 - "Joint Use of DNSSEC and Blocking Servers" by Mr. Koji Yamamoto, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
14:30 - "Technical Issues and Operation" by Mr. Kazuhiro Kitamura, NTT Communications Corporation
15:20 - Break
15:35 - "Mobile Phone Filtering and the Internet Environment Improvement Act for Youth," by Mr. Shingo Okamura, Councilor, Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association
16:35 - "Establishment of Third-Party Organizations and Accreditation System," by Mr. Ryohei Yoshioka, Mobile Content Examination and Operation Monitoring Organization (EMA)
18:00 - Discussion session
Friday, March 1
10:00 - "Frontline of Child Pornography Crimes, Cases and Explanations," by Mr. Toru Okumura, Attorney at Law, Okumura & Tanaka Law Office
11:00 - "Blocking and Secrecy of Communications," by Mr. Takashi Nagase, Attorney at Law, Yamazaki Law Office
12:00 - Lunch break
13:00 - "Responses by Administrative Agencies at Home and Abroad," by Mr. Noriyuki Morisato, Assistant Director, Consumer Affairs Division, Telecommunications Infrastructure Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
14:00 - "Current Status of Blocking Measures" by Mr. Tadashi Yoshida, Secretary General, Internet Content Safety Association
15:00 - Break
15:15 - "Blocking from the perspective of freedom of expression" by Dr. Masahiro Sogabe, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
16:25 - Panel discussion
18:30 - Discussion session
Seminar on Countermeasures against Illegal and Harmful Information on the Internet: Past - Future - Focusing on measures against child pornography
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