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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."

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  1. fr0st p1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me be the first to congratulate the Australians on thinking, instead of flying off the handle and implementing whatever draconian measure they can find at the mere mention of "k1dd13 pr0n omg wtf!!!!."

  2. 2nd post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I ROCK!