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Australia Chooses Education Over Filtering

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-about-the-children dept.

riprjak writes "The Australian federal government has rejected a call for Internet filtering to 'protect' Australians from child pornography and has opted instead to undertake an education and information campaign to teach parents about the perils of the Internet."

7 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. State of Shock by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Funny

    A government made a sensible, non-kneejerk decision with regard to the Internet?

    I want to to move there!

    Oh, wait... I already did. :)

    --
    Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
    1. Re:State of Shock by krumms · · Score: 3, Funny

      You could still get to the gay porn if you really wanted to.

      I mean, not that I'd know or anything. :o

  2. Finally some sense... by ebsf1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oi oi oi

  3. My god... by VirtualWolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the Howard government doing something intelligent?!

    ::looks outside to see if the sky is falling::

  4. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE.... by lachlan76 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oi! Oi! Oi!

    If you're not Australian, and don't know, then don't even try to understand ;)

  5. In the spirit of people who don't visit Fark.com by Vicsun · · Score: 5, Funny

    [WHAT]

  6. Redirection of resources by michaeldot · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not just commonsense, it will also free up for resources for fighting the TRUE dangers to our children here in sunny Oz:

    If the dingoes don't get our babies, Steve Irwin will feed them to a crocodile!