Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters

ratzmilk writes "The Australian government is mandating the creation of 'clean' internet feeds. To be optionally made available to schools and homes that request it, the feed would offer built-in filters of 'pornography and inappropriate content'. Said Senator Controy: 'Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road ... If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.'"

Comments

Re:Better check the details

[Nazlfrag]

I can see the new tourist campaign now.. "Australia. Goatse free since 2008"

Re:Better check the details

[Anonymous Coward]

>I can see the new tourist campaign now..

Certainly brings new meaning to the old "So where the bloody hell are you?" campaign.

Re:slow boiled frog

[Ash-Fox]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-03-29-child-self-porn_x.htm where the minor charged with possesion and dissemination of 'child pornography' (along with child abuse) was the minor depicted in the aforementioned pornography.

Clearly these laws are harming the children. Won't anyone think of the children?

Re:Better check the details

[lysse]

It looks like they will make a list of sites which "promote violence and distribute child pornography and instruct ISP's to redirect http requests to them.

All http requests, or just those of sites critical of the Australian government? And isn't that rather like institutional goatse-ing?

I knew the Aussies were broad-minded, but really, this new initiative might be going a little bit too far...

Re:Better check the details

[kbielefe]

Homosexual traits evolved through the ages as Darwin theorized, because their offspring was more likely to survive to pass on the homosexual gene.