Aussie internet porn crusade

[gonzo]

(Australin IT)
John Howard is going to spend $189 million on "cleaning up the internet" for Australian families, blocking pornography, upgrading the search for chat-room sex predators and cutting off terror sites. Every Australian family will be provided with a free internet filter and the federal Government will enter an unprecedented partnership with service providers to filter pornography at the source. Communications and Australian Federal Police resources will be boosted immediately to expand checks on internet chat rooms to detect child predators, and privacy laws masking sex offenders on the net will be altered.

[bluemoney]

Thank you "Big Brother"

[Hammer]

I talked with an Aussie at Internext about this and asked him what he thought and he said they just tell the government to "fuck off".

Somehow I don't think $189 million is going to go far in this effort.

Personally I don't have a problem with providing better filters to parents and making sure they know about them and how to use them. We could all breathe a sigh of relief if there was a filter system that was effective and effectively promoted so most parents were aware of it. I'm not worried about losing a few bucks because some parents will be too stupid to figure out how to use the filters, but the government would have a hard time making a case against us if kids could effectively be blocked from our content in some way besides forcing us to put everything (including free sites), in password protected areas, like COPA proposes.

[Sexyteaser]

Wow - I think we should send someone over there to get on this commission. This is very interesting but will they stop at filtering adult or will they consider all the other objectional stuff on the internet.

This takes me back to the scene in "The People vs Larry Flynt" when he does the slide show showing adult photos and war photos. to prove what he thought was objectionable.

[cj]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I talked with an Aussie at Internext about this and asked him what he thought and he said they just tell the government to "fuck off".

Somehow I don't think $189 million is going to go far in this effort.

Personally I don't have a problem with providing better filters to parents and making sure they know about them and how to use them. We could all breathe a sigh of relief if there was a filter system that was effective and effectively promoted so most parents were aware of it. I'm not worried about losing a few bucks because some parents will be too stupid to figure out how to use the filters, but the government would have a hard time making a case against us if kids could effectively be blocked from our content in some way besides forcing us to put everything (including free sites), in password protected areas, like COPA proposes.

Its an election year, its just to get the christian vote. May never happen as he possibly won't get back in.

I still don't understand why there hasn't been a 'kids internet' created by one of the super corporations by now - or oprah!! its so much easier to put all the 'approved' stuff in a section rather than trying to block everything objectionable.

In the same way they are trying to move porn onto .sex and .xxx why not move all approved kids sites to a .kids domain and then browsers can filter by domain. To register one of these domains you have to go through a screening process from a board of parents & sponsors.

So if any company markets to children, they have to meet the same standards online as they do in the rest of their business. You take your kids to a playground or a children friendly zone to play ... you wouldn't let them play in dirty streets around brothels, flashers, drug dealers, peddo scum at all so why would we expect 'the internet' is going to be a safe zone for kids?

Make a domain extension, or an intranet, make it safe, put all the kids in there and protect them properly ... and let us get on with our lives of sin!!

[softball]

Didn't you have some kind of online mag for girls? How did that go?

[cj]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Didn't you have some kind of online mag for girls? How did that go?

Not for a few years now!
It was great ... but I decided I don't like working so hard.