MATTHEWS: OK. Lets go to the police. How would you police the Internet culturally, Mr. Mayor? GIULIANI: Pardon me? MATTHEWS: How would you police the Internet culturally? You know, the whole question about the stuff that’s going on, predators, that sort of thing… GIULIANI: Sure. I think it’s a very, very — I think it’s a… MATTHEWS: How do we do it? GIULIANI: I think it’s a new serious area of crime that’s emerging. I think that — first of all, let’s separate the economics from the safety and security like we have to do with the free trade agreements. GIULIANI: But we should not tax the Internet. There are people who are proposing taxing the Internet. That would be a really, really big mistake. (APPLAUSE)
We should police the Internet in that we make sure that child predators aren’t taking advantage of on the Internet, which they seem to be doing. There are a lot of good state and local law enforcement efforts in that regard.
I think a task force between the federal government and state and local governments in order to police it, to share information, to make sure it isn’t being misused, to make sure it’s protected.
I think working with — one of the businesses that I have some familiarity with is a business that I had some involvement with back and we sold it. But they attack from the outside into that systems in order to determine whether they can be penetrated. They also can set up protections against child predators, against pornography. Those are the kinds of things that we have to do.
It’s a new area and a growing area of law enforcement. GIULIANI: And I think that there are — some of the task forces that have been developed have done some really good work in policing it.
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From the 10.09.07 Republican Primary Debate in Michigan: