Thursday, February 28, 2008
Here Come the Porn Filters
Whether they admit it or not, a big percentage of adult Australians sometimes access porn online. Now our caring government is introducing ISP-level porn filters (at a cost of a whopping $189 million), which basically means you'll have to contact your ISP and say:
I love porn! Please let me see it! Please note me down as a porn lover!
I'm all for kids being able to surf safely. There'd be nothing wrong with proving free PC-level filter software to whoever wants it. But ISP-level? If that is introduced, what is next? Asking permission to look at communist websites??
Also, as they point out at ars technica:
I love porn! Please let me see it! Please note me down as a porn lover!
I'm all for kids being able to surf safely. There'd be nothing wrong with proving free PC-level filter software to whoever wants it. But ISP-level? If that is introduced, what is next? Asking permission to look at communist websites??
Also, as they point out at ars technica:
False positives will likely frustrate users and pornographic content will all but certainly slip through the government's net. The ISP-level filters will also probably not provide parents with the same level of administrative flexibility as PC-based filters.
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