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Email (and Filters) for all Australian schools
Tom Davies writes: "Every student and teacher in the state of New South Wales will have an email address and web access by March. And porn filtering to go with it, according to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald."
Maybe I should've explained the policy better.
Information on condoms, or anything related to sex-education is OK, even doing research for a class on porn is fine (note from instructor is required). What isn't OK is defined here:
Personal use of any University information system to access, download, print, store, forward, transmit or distribute obscene material.
Note the words Personal and the word obscene (as defined by the Supreme Court), too lazy to look up the link.
There are absolutely no filtering programs in effect on any of the computers on campus. This is left entirely in the judgement of the consultants maning the labs, i.e. me. Basically I see some beasty porn, some C**shots, etc and I kick them out of the library. Sounds harsh from a ACLU member doesn't it? Well you catch people masturbating to porn (never women I might add *Sigh) when you are working and then see just how happy you are to see it.
Policy isn't bad and is really quite reasonable. Just don't look at porn to get off and you don't violate the policy.