Churches Risk Porn For Phone Masts
In re St Peter and St Paul, Chingford
Arches Court of Canterbury:
Weekly Law Reports Summary
14 August 2007
In deciding whether to grant a faculty for the installation in a church tower of 3G mobile telephone communications equipment it was necessary to balance the benefit of the network to the public generally against the risk that some children and adults might use it to access internet pornography. In view of the steps taken by mobile phone operators to introduce filtering techniques to protect child users of their services and to monitor websites, it would be unbalanced to refuse to grant a faculty because there was a risk that some adults would be enabled privately to access material which many Christians and others deplored.