MDI Annual Report 2006
Op 21 maart 1997 opened the then Minister of the Interior, Hans Dijkstal, with a somewhat awkward click the MDI. He concluded his speech on that occasion with the words "It would be the best are when there would be little need to be reported '. So beautiful it was not. The MDI, then still based in the founding of the side room, had to open debate center De Balie in Amsterdam is willing to make available space. Also talked digeratii of the first hour of XS4all, DBNL and NLIP were -sometimes nilly- involved in establishing. It was not waiting for the bad news that discrimination on the Internet was a problem. Moreover, they had already Meldpunt on the Internet and set up in the eyes of some, was still a child more real problem. A big ISP from those days announced: "We put a link to the contact points on our entry page. We have no need to scare away potential customers with the news that there is child pornography and racism on the Internet is'. Fortunately, this ostrich policy of short duration.
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