Isn't this just as bad as China blocking web pages. If we give the government access to block these things they could block anything they liked and keep anything from us.
Surely just filtering the net of this material will have problems. It would probably slow down all Australian internet and they'd have to hire about a million people to keep up with the traffic and check what's right and what's not. The senator is going to high, to fast.
What he should be recommending is to make it obligatory for ISPs to offer a free program with the connection for the choice of the user to download to block unwanted sites. This means people would have a choice and those who were too embarrassed to file for their internet access to fall under the "perverts" section wouldn't have to worry...
Seriously, if they want to filter the net in this way then they also need to filter television of advertisement, it's just about as bad - it's everywhere too... But no the corporations are behind advertisement and it is a legal way of brainwashing kids into wanting a certain product or the latest toy, only to buy it and realise it's a hunk of junk and go onto the next one...
Well what i'm saying is, i'm completely against this idea and it's a waste of money and time - people will find ways around it too, i'm certain of that. This Tasmanian senator has obviously not thought long and hard enough about the costs and the consequences, I suggest he sits back down at his desk and reads all these comments and refines his motion.
In other news, people are shocked and astounded that Microsoft is spending more time and more money devoloping it's next gaming console the Xbox360. It's even said that Xbox360 is going to be running Windows2k or at least based on it... So why stop support for 2k if your going to support it running on xbox360s!
Quite contradictory...
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I'm pretty sure I saw this article on /. some days ago...
Isn't this just as bad as China blocking web pages. If we give the government access to block these things they could block anything they liked and keep anything from us.
So you're protecting them by putting it under .xxx but doesn't that just make it all that much easier to find it. :/
This may actually explain George Bush.
Surely just filtering the net of this material will have problems. It would probably slow down all Australian internet and they'd have to hire about a million people to keep up with the traffic and check what's right and what's not. The senator is going to high, to fast. What he should be recommending is to make it obligatory for ISPs to offer a free program with the connection for the choice of the user to download to block unwanted sites. This means people would have a choice and those who were too embarrassed to file for their internet access to fall under the "perverts" section wouldn't have to worry... Seriously, if they want to filter the net in this way then they also need to filter television of advertisement, it's just about as bad - it's everywhere too... But no the corporations are behind advertisement and it is a legal way of brainwashing kids into wanting a certain product or the latest toy, only to buy it and realise it's a hunk of junk and go onto the next one... Well what i'm saying is, i'm completely against this idea and it's a waste of money and time - people will find ways around it too, i'm certain of that. This Tasmanian senator has obviously not thought long and hard enough about the costs and the consequences, I suggest he sits back down at his desk and reads all these comments and refines his motion.
In other news, people are shocked and astounded that Microsoft is spending more time and more money devoloping it's next gaming console the Xbox360. It's even said that Xbox360 is going to be running Windows2k or at least based on it... So why stop support for 2k if your going to support it running on xbox360s! Quite contradictory...
Agreed, second, third, motion passed.