... is an internet report hotline which can be contacted by an internet users very simple, quick and unbureaucratic – also anonymously – if s/he finds the following content on the Internet:
- Child Pornography (§ 207 a StGB - Austrian penal code) or
- National Socialist Offences (Verbotsgesetz - national socialist prohibition law) and Abzeichengesetz - law against the wearing of national socialist regalia and symbols)
Click here for the report form.
After the report has been submitted to the Stopline, the agents check whether the material is actually illegal according to the Austrian laws. In this case the Stopline immediately contacts the responsible executive authority, the affected Austrian ISP and the foreign partner hotlines within INHOPE, which is a network of hotlines against illegal contents on the internet.
Stopline is funded by the EC within the Safer Internet Programme and member of Inhope.
