Internet: ICTA Strong Against Paedophiles

According to a senior official of the regulatory authority, these sites were blocked after the Mauritian users have had access. However, access is a crime punishable by law. The law, do you remember the ICTA prohibits access to this type of website. For continuous monitoring of developments, ICTA offers Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) Filtering.

The latest figures published by the Observatory are eloquent. Only for January 2014 12857 access attempts (hits) to these Internet sites have been listed. Asked by Le Matinal Friday, a senior ICTA said that this figure is complex. It could be, he said, a user has clicked repeatedly on these sites. "It is difficult to say that 12,857 access these websites equivalent to the same number of online attempts," he has said. And add, also, that "some users enter this kind of site out of curiosity and when they try to close the site, it opens again. Thus, the number of 'hits' is increasing. "

One thing, however, is certain. Is that the number of access attempts on these sites is steadily rising since the last five months. In December 2013, the number of access attempts on these websites totaled 7,060. It rose to 12 857 in 2014.

In January 2014, the ICTA intervened to block access to these sites to prohibitive 1002 users Mauritian against 982 in December 2013. The number of blocked sites totaled 1,306 in January 2014 against 1,118 in December 2013. ICTA said that access to these sites is a "breach of ICTA Act." It invites the public to report prohibited sites from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). ICTA has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the IWF about it.