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Australian Labor Party Proposes ISP Level Filter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the education-and-parenting-also-too-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Labor Party (much the same as the Democrats in the US) are claiming they will force ISPs to block violent and pornographic content if elected. From the article: 'Mr Beazley said all households would be included in the policy unless there was a specific request for access to such material. It was "too hard" for many parents to install internet blockers on their computers to prevent offensive material being downloaded.'"

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  1. Re:Australia seems to be more repressive than US by fabs64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's more of a "the government says this" and the public says "yeah try and enforce it" kind of thing really.
    The two major governments are reasonably conservative (although an analogy of the labor party to the democrats is just plain farsical) and so we get crap like this proposed.

    Also, puritanical implies religious, Australia is very secular, and this is more a case of "working class mums and dads don't want their kids looking up porn".

    That said, this is a completely ludicrious proposal by the labor party and needless to say they've lost my vote for the next federal election.

  2. Meanwhile, in Italy... by grand_it · · Score: 5, Informative
    ..Judges are requiring ISPs to restict certain websites by filtering their IP addresses. Child porn, of course, but also sites that aren't doing anything illegal in their place of activity, such as:

    - chinese Web-TVs that stream sport events whose broadcasting rights in Italy are owned by satellite operator SKY;
    - Gambling/sport betting/online casinos, that are required to pay a royalty/tax to operate in Italy;

    The worst part of the deal is that no formal trial is done before the order is given to ISPs, so websites don't have any chance to defend their rights. Oh, and citizens don't have the right to know the full list of restricted websites.