Cameron calls for web giants to act on porn

David Cameron has demanded Google do more to rid the internet of child pornography, warning that lives are being put at risk.

By The Newsroom

Published 10th Jun 2013, 10:04 BST

The Prime Minister said he was “sickened” by the material available online and told web search firms to stop making excuses.

The companies have been summoned to a council of war with Culture Secretary Maria Miller and Mr Cameron’s adviser Tory MP Claire Perry, on June 17.

Mark Bridger, who was convicted last month of the murder of five-year-old April Jones, was found to have a cache of 65 criminal abuse images.

Mr Cameron said: “I am sickened by the proliferation of child pornography. It pollutes the internet, twists minds and is quite simply a danger to children. Internet companies and search engines make their living by trawling and categorising the web. So I call on them to use their extraordinary technical abilities to do more to root out these disgusting images.”