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Anonymous Coward writes "According to this story on The Australian IT site, the Australian Federal Government claims that its content regulation laws have "boosted Internet use in Australia", by assuring families of the safety of the Net. A quote: "When asked if the Government believed the laws had successfully removed all such [extremely offensive] content from the internet, a spokesman for Senator Alston replied: 'can you prove (that content) is still out there?'"
I wish I could find some details but I heard that someone in Germany is trying to get its censorship people to slap an "adult only" rating on the bible. I'm not sure how thats going. The same thing could happen in Oz but its going to take someone with about AU$4000 (= ~US$.02) to get it done.
I did find something else. According to one report, Mein Kampf is very hard to get in Germany.
A reference is here: search for 95-221. While I don't agree with the contents (I've only read a small bit), its one of thouse books that parts should be required reading. It shows that if your a good speaker/writer and can talk about your country with pride and blame others for the problems, you can go far in politics.
is that like the rest of the world, our politicans are near to complete morons, or being advised by people who are.
We're talking about a country that makes it legal for government security organisations to hack (crack - whatever) into our computers and cover it up, a government that wants to set up a nation wide filtering system to stop us from seeing Bad Things.
It's doomed, they know it, we know it, but in typical political style, they refuse to admit it.
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>Senator Alston replied: 'can you prove (that content) is still out there?'"
Do you have an email-address, mr Alston?
//rdj
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--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
The guy who introduced these 'highly successful' (hehehe)anti-porn laws, Richard Alston (our esteemed Minister for Communications, information technology and the Arts) showed his true understanding of internet on the ABC's 7:30 report (in response to criticism of the Commonwealth Government's plans to ban internet gambling - which undoubtably will increase internet uptake even more!) by saying that people would not go offshore to gamble on the internet because they would not want to pay international call rates to access offshore sites. Anyone who believes this would probably also believe that internet is porn free thanks to Australia's oh-so-effective anti-porn laws!
Teens approve of 'Censorship' Laws
A new survey shows that Australia's new censorship laws are an overwhelming hit amongst young male internet users. Surprisingly few of the young people surveyed stated that they felt the laws had restricted their Internet use, and many felt it had actually been enchanced.
One teen (who wished to remain anonymous) said "I think these laws are great. Until recently, my parents wouldn't have dreamed of allowing me to have unrestricted access to the Internet. But now that Senator Alston has convinced them that there is no offensive material any more, I now have my own PC in my room and I can look at all the pornography I want."
Hogwash. An Aussie friend of mine claims it's the continued stench emitting from the pile of foetid dingoes' kidneys that's responsible for the increase in internet use in Australia.
And I claim it's the fact that I ate kippers last Tuesday that's led to the increase in internet use in Australia.
Just because it happened after a stupid law passed, doesn't mean it happened because the stupid law passed. It's a sad commentary on the state of public education in any Western "democracy" that its politicians can pass off the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy as truth and get away with it.