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.'"

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[westlake]

the problem with our current laws is that they equate possesion/dissemination with creation.

Try again.

The laws defines the consumer of child pornography as being the beneficiary of a crime against a child. The rape of a child. You have purchased the evidence of a sex crime that in many cultures would warrant the death penalty.

You are not an innocent.

The biggest problem with the label 'sex offender' is that it is so broad, encompasing everything from raping and murdering an adult, to molesting (a) child(ren), to public urination.

The last time I looked at our county's sex offender registry, public urination had not put anyone on the list. They were on the list because they were repeat offenders with a profoundly disturbing history of violence.

Mental disturbance. Drug and alcohol abuse.