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Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn
rolling_or_jaded writes "As of the 1st of March 2005, Australian ISPs and web hosts will face fines of up to $55,000 if they can be used to access child pornography and do not refer the information to the police. Yikes. How on earth are the ISPs (and web hosts -- like my own very small-time and humble company) supposed to enforce this?"
How on earth are the ISPs (and web hosts -- like my own very small-time and humble company) supposed to enforce this?
With vaporware!
just enable the evil bit of course
Does it mean they're going to hire people to go through all porn and judge which is legal?! Where can I send my resume?!?!
I'm much more funny, interesting and insightful than the moderators think
"As of the 1st of March 2005, Australian ISPs and web hosts will face fines of up to $55,000 if they can be used to access child pornography and do not refer the information to the police. Yikes. How on earth are the ISPs (and web hosts -- like my own very small-time and humble company) supposed to enforce this?"
Easy:
Dear Police,
My ISP can be used to access child pornography.
Thanks,
Every ISP on Earth
Just bundle Weathercast with the ISP software and let Windows do the rest!
End of Line.
Set up a non-transparent firewall requiring everyone to use a web proxy to access the internet at large. Then, whenever someone accesses a file ending in .gif, .jpg, .bmp or .png using their browser, forward a copy of that file to the police along with a note stating that it may be an example of child pornography and asking them to investigate further. That should put you in complete compliance with the law.
It will also be a federal offence, carrying a penalty of 10 years' jail, for a person to use the internet to access, transmit or make available child pornography or child abuse material.
Does this mean you could do 10 years for googling effective ways to spank a child?
Computer, camera and auto manufacturers should stop making these items which can be used in the creation and distribution of child porn, hotels house child porn makers and provide a haven for them, schools don't keep the children 24 hours a day, making the children available to pornographers, parents had the children in the first place, obviously leading to child porn, politicans consume most of the child porn, and Ayers Rock hasn't gone and fallen on the pornographers.
It seems rather clear to me that this still has not been taken to extent it needs to be to prevent all child porn. Why aren't lawmakers doing their jobs?
And when is someone going to go after the children? They obviously have something to do with it - they're in all of it. Geez, do I have to fix your big fence too? Get some priorities! Go after the problem, not the symptoms!
age of consent != age for pronography
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Dear Men-In-Black,
Slashdot.org has been allowing its users to discuss child pornography.
Think of the children.
Sincerely,
Senator J. McCarthy IV
If they know someone can 'access' illegal material, surely it would be just as easy to prevent access and 'firewall' out the bad stuff?
re hosting, yeah thats an easy one to catch.
Why doesnt Autralia as a whole have a firewall like China and make those 'dodgy' sites disappear to all.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Slandering the Australian Government is a tradition in Australia too, and for bloody good reasons.
So... If I paint a pornographic picture on my 17yo girlfriends belly, that's childporn?
*ducks*
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
Lets just start with the fact that since there is no way to show the thoughts a person has in there head you have no possible proof of guilt, so it's eigther a non starter or a convienient way to incarcerate someone on a whim.
To consider the possibility that the Thought Police might be unright is thinkcrime. Your posts are double-plus-ungood, comrade. Report to MiniLuv for counselling.
You're not. You're supposed to go out of business leaving more room for the large ISPs. That's the point of laws like this. Screw the little guy, which is ironic if you think about it!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
A: "This person seems to be downloading gigs of stuff! He MUST be downloading child porn or illegal movies"
B: "Um sir, it looks like he is just downloading Linux ISOs"
A: "Linux what? Look, we can't take a chance and get fined. Report him, and let the police worry about it."
www.hotkids.com.au seems to be down! Anyway else having trouble connecting?
you're right...but I tend to demonize everyone anyway, regardless of guilt. But I'm an asshole, your milage may vary.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Yes because child porn is the ISPs faults and they are basically responsible for it at every level. Infact they are often behind making it in the first place! This isn't exactly hard to enforce - you just scan all user traffic and check for child porn images with that magic AI system that has a 0% failure rate!
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I hope that you will at least wait until they are convicted.
Rule of law? That's for liberal terrorist-lovin', latte-drinking pedophile defenders. Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out. You're either with us or against us.</sarcasm>
The law is fucked [...]
How old is that law? If it's under 18 (or 16, or whatever), it's probably illegal for it to be fucked. If you have any information about that law being fucked, you must report it, citizen.
P.S. - If it turns out that an "underage" law actually wanted to and enjoyed being fucked, then it must be put into therapy until it acknowledges its deep emotional scars and overdoses on anti-depressants.