5 Concerns About Australia's New Net Filter

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 9, 2011 @11:54AM from the lovely-shade-of-black-don'tcha-think? dept.

daria42 writes "As you might have heard, this month Australia gets a new Internet filter, using Interpol's blacklist of 'worst of the worst' child pornography sites. In general, it seems like most people don't object to the idea in principle, but concerns are being raised around the transparency of the scheme, which so far has no civilian oversight, unclear backing legislation and an appeals process which does not exactly inspire confidence. Why is it those who want to implement this kind of filtering never quite address these sort of concerns up-front?"

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Bible by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-09 13:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

the problem is there will always be a way for the false positives to block non-offensive sites ...

Child porn sites start using Biblical passages as euphemisms for certain things - "Lot's daughters" would be a wonderful search term for under age girl porn.
It'll get through the filters for a while and when it's discovered, Bible sites will be blocked and the Christian Fundies will start scaring the shit out of the politicians to remove the filters.
At least that's how it might go down.
Religion is a wonderful political weapon and it should never be put to waste.