The Internet Watch Foundation released its Annual Report covering 2017 on April 18, 2018 The The IWF searches for and removes online child sexual abuse imagery and the report shows that more of this disturbing material is being found than ever
before. Whilst the IWF concentrates on its commendable work against child abuse images it does have a wider remit to censor adult content deemed to be criminally obscene, and also to censor cartoons and other non-photographic imagery sexually
depicting under 18s. However in this annual report the IWF has announced that it no longer has any remit over adult porn. It writes: 6.4 Wider remit work
5,439 reports of alleged criminally
obscene adult content were made to us. Almost all were not hosted in the UK, so they were not in our remit.
3,471 reports of alleged non-photographic images of child sexual abuse were made to us. None of these images were hosted in the UK, so
they were not within our remit.
One URL depicted criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK received from a public source. On 1 August 2017, criminally obscene adult content hosted within the UK was removed from
IWF’s remit.
Presumably that role now belongs to the new internet porn censors at the BBFC. Anyway it is surely good for the IWF to rid itself of that toxic task, so it can concentrate on its good work that is supported by more or
less everyone. | 
