poutchiz
07-06-2010, 05:12 PM
Communications Minister of Australia says that despite the recent change in Prime Minister, the country’s government is still going to forward the plans for implementing an obligatory Net filter.
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The plan was initially suggested as a voluntary attempt to protect kids, but since then it has somehow morphed into an obligatory effort to make ISPs filter the web of all offensive, inconsistent and unauthorized content. Now kids porno restrictions evolved to legal porno, peer-to-peer traffic and gambling restrictions, which couldn’t make Australian citizens very happy.
Several months ago the plan was delayed for indefinite period of time. Steven Conroy, the Australia’s Communications Minister hopes the plan will be reintroduced later this year. However, the plan caused lots of criticism for fighting child porno in such a way. The rest of countries in the world somehow manage fighting the scourge of child porn in the Internet just fine by some other methods, where filtering personal Internet connection is not included.
Even Google highlighted that it may have to reconsider its presence in this country like in some of the others, reassuring its principled decision to quit China which required it to filter search results. Australia, in this regard, needs to justify their use of filtering and lack of disclosure of the information on what is actually being filtered. Such question arises from acknowledging the fact that pedophiles usually distribute kids pornography through services that can be wholly unaffected by proposed filtering scheme, such as newsgroups, P2P, Cyberlockers and FTPs to name the least.
The only establishment that has announced to support the government’s Internet filtering suggestion was, surprisingly, the country’s Christian Lobby, which keeps calling for web filtering. Firstly it demanded the government to obligatory block porno and R18+, consequently providing an opt-in system for those who’s willing to access it. Later, at the end of 2009 it made a requirement to review the Internet filter after 3 years to extend it in terms of affecting also X and R(!)-rated online content.
The talk about implementing the filter lasts for quite a long time now, and the last question to Conroy this topic arose was how is he going to introduce the Net filtering without employing legions of monitors like those from China?
News posted by SaM, picked (untouched) from ExtraTorrent (http://extratorrent.com/article/604/australian+minister+still+planning+for+obligatory+ web+filter.html)
http://i44.tinypic.com/211ugsi.png
The plan was initially suggested as a voluntary attempt to protect kids, but since then it has somehow morphed into an obligatory effort to make ISPs filter the web of all offensive, inconsistent and unauthorized content. Now kids porno restrictions evolved to legal porno, peer-to-peer traffic and gambling restrictions, which couldn’t make Australian citizens very happy.
Several months ago the plan was delayed for indefinite period of time. Steven Conroy, the Australia’s Communications Minister hopes the plan will be reintroduced later this year. However, the plan caused lots of criticism for fighting child porno in such a way. The rest of countries in the world somehow manage fighting the scourge of child porn in the Internet just fine by some other methods, where filtering personal Internet connection is not included.
Even Google highlighted that it may have to reconsider its presence in this country like in some of the others, reassuring its principled decision to quit China which required it to filter search results. Australia, in this regard, needs to justify their use of filtering and lack of disclosure of the information on what is actually being filtered. Such question arises from acknowledging the fact that pedophiles usually distribute kids pornography through services that can be wholly unaffected by proposed filtering scheme, such as newsgroups, P2P, Cyberlockers and FTPs to name the least.
The only establishment that has announced to support the government’s Internet filtering suggestion was, surprisingly, the country’s Christian Lobby, which keeps calling for web filtering. Firstly it demanded the government to obligatory block porno and R18+, consequently providing an opt-in system for those who’s willing to access it. Later, at the end of 2009 it made a requirement to review the Internet filter after 3 years to extend it in terms of affecting also X and R(!)-rated online content.
The talk about implementing the filter lasts for quite a long time now, and the last question to Conroy this topic arose was how is he going to introduce the Net filtering without employing legions of monitors like those from China?
News posted by SaM, picked (untouched) from ExtraTorrent (http://extratorrent.com/article/604/australian+minister+still+planning+for+obligatory+ web+filter.html)