New Australian PM Sticks With Internet Filter Plans
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If you don't agree with this filter you are clearly a pedophile.
LOL on that survey:
LOL on that survey:
Aside from the fact that there's clearly liars, those numbers don't even add up.
Because parents no longer want the responsibilty of their children.Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
See...it's not THEIR fault, it's those DIRTY PEDDLERS!Local Paper Story said:
How can you censor the internet
Its what students use in schools to get on Youtube and Facebook etc.SirBryghtside said:
That's an excellent quote. Thanks for providing it.The_root_of_all_evil said:
On topic: Gillard is a total disappointment. With this, and her declaration that she thinks that I shouldn't be able to get married to some hunky guy that I hopefully meet really soon, her honeymoon period in my mind lasted about 2 seconds. I definitely won't be voting Labor next election.
If you had watched the slides, you would see that actually several questions explicitly mention a government run filter. And they had very positive results.Doug said:
I am sad for Australia right now.
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What.
Last time I checked, films and books weren't forms of communication. Forms of communication include, although not exclusively, speech, letter-writing, telephone calls and drums.
Books and films are media. The Internet contains media, but in itself isn't any more a form of media than telephone calls are when you're playing music into your phone.
Why do that when they could piss off even more people?Ironic Pirate said:
Canada is the land of the apologetic, haven't you been watching Loading Ready Run recently?James Hueick said:
I'm a programmer and even though i only took a year of server i can tell you this is dam near imposable without some sort of mass blocking filter, and that wouldn't work to well. Most filters are static and used in company's to make sure their employees aren't looking at porn or social networking sites while on the job, the problem though is that they often block legit content and exceptions have to be made to the filter.
For this you would need to create a giant filter that takes all content everywhere takes into account proxy servers, and have entire staffs job just to make sure its a)Working and b) not blocking legit stuff, it is improbable, expensive, and downright Orwellian .
For this you would need to create a giant filter that takes all content everywhere takes into account proxy servers, and have entire staffs job just to make sure its a)Working and b) not blocking legit stuff, it is improbable, expensive, and downright Orwellian .
i would think if they know what sites to block then why not monitor the traffic and arrest the people that are using them? or is that too much like logic?
i suspect this is a stepping stone in the name of child porn for these filters to get expanded to file sharing services after all people could post child porn on them, and news services, and maybe when they get enough steam sites like this where we call these people facists and stupid. and how about sites that give informant on drugs and such, and of course violence since we wont allow violent video games in this country. you can find some pretty violent stuff on youtube, why should they not ban that? or how about facebook and myspace, tons of questionable stuff go on those places. how about ever real time chat room ever invented where sexual propositions are the norm and stupidty abounds.
i mean we can just keep going on and on if we really want to defend children.
i suspect this is a stepping stone in the name of child porn for these filters to get expanded to file sharing services after all people could post child porn on them, and news services, and maybe when they get enough steam sites like this where we call these people facists and stupid. and how about sites that give informant on drugs and such, and of course violence since we wont allow violent video games in this country. you can find some pretty violent stuff on youtube, why should they not ban that? or how about facebook and myspace, tons of questionable stuff go on those places. how about ever real time chat room ever invented where sexual propositions are the norm and stupidty abounds.
i mean we can just keep going on and on if we really want to defend children.
In the UK, ISPs go out of there way to block potential ill-content, which goes beyond sexually explicit material that also includes sites linked to fraud and terrorism.
Now granted the UK is pretty poor when it comes to being a "free" nation and with civil liberties, yet this Australian law seems like censor that AND THEN SOME, IE clean websites.
Now granted the UK is pretty poor when it comes to being a "free" nation and with civil liberties, yet this Australian law seems like censor that AND THEN SOME, IE clean websites.
Geez.
I feel sorry of you Australians. your goverment seems to claim it's democratic, yet it's acting like a totalitarian goverment, it could at least have the honesty of being one, like The People's Republic Of China does.
I say you Australians oughta rise in rebellion, I don't know how you'd do rebellions, but in my country, the U.S.A, we've done so 2 ways:
1) Pull off a military rebellion against oppression, ala the American Revolution.
2) Engage in peaceful civil disobedience, protests, lawsuits, etc. ala the Civil Rights Movement.
I feel sorry of you Australians. your goverment seems to claim it's democratic, yet it's acting like a totalitarian goverment, it could at least have the honesty of being one, like The People's Republic Of China does.
I say you Australians oughta rise in rebellion, I don't know how you'd do rebellions, but in my country, the U.S.A, we've done so 2 ways:
1) Pull off a military rebellion against oppression, ala the American Revolution.
2) Engage in peaceful civil disobedience, protests, lawsuits, etc. ala the Civil Rights Movement.