Comments on: Australia Continues Plan to Have ISPs Filter ‘Inappropriate’ Content

By: john

john — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:48:14 +0000

Take the filter back to china where it belongs Kevin Rudd, Australians don’t want it!

By: Aussie Christian Group Demands Mandatory Porn Filtering

Aussie Christian Group Demands Mandatory Porn Filtering — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:05:36 +0000

[...] want the govt to institute mandatory ISP filtering of pornography and other “inappropriate” material, offering an opt-out mechanism for [...]

By: Spurge

Spurge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Although I am totally against any form of censorship or filtering I like the fact you can request to be exempt from them. Still it should be the other way around you should be exempt by default.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I remember last year a kid cracked both attempts to institute this: http://www.news.com.au/story/02359922304224-200.html

Funniest story to come out of Australia in a while at that point. Either way won’t work.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@spurge
I just don’t see why once again the govt is made to be everybody’s babysitter. Its a stopgap for lazy parenting.

By: Spurge

Spurge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually the more I think about it the more I think this whole idea should be protested against. Once they get their start on any form of censorship it will just get out of control. I mean who gets to say what I can and can’t see? Some old religious zealot ?

Might send off some letters of complaint now I think. Even though it’s easy to get around it’s just wrong to start censoring because a small minority think something is offensive.

By: huhster

huhster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just do not understand why are parents letting under aged kids surf the web unsupervised? Unfit parents just want to blame someone else for their own mistakes. Monitor your child if you are worried about “inappropriate” websites you do not want your child to accessTHATS IT~! You do not need a damn government to do it for you! Even then to much government means less freedom.

By: skweez

skweez — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Basically it gives them the noble honor of saving the nation’s morality (how sweet) soon to be extended into the sphere of online swearing blasphemy plus irate outbursts on IRC… and to save our souls from damnation it may yet be extended to embrace copyright infringment .. alley loo yah!

By: Spurge

Spurge — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well.. I encourage all concerned about this to email your opinions about filtering.

http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_122#Internet

Let them know Austalia isn’t Iran or China and we are supposed to be all for freedom of speech.
Even though there would be easy ways around the filtering it’s still a bad idea to go down this path.

By: MaryJayne2769

MaryJayne2769 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Government officials are starting a modern day witch hunt. Once one “inappropriate” content of the internet is blocked there will be more and more organizations crying out to block other content.

Soon we will be opening our internet browsers to see the message “Thank you for paying your local ISP to provide you with the following message: ‘All content that the internet provides has been deemed inappropriate by some organization and therefore has been blocked. We appreciate your business and look forward to your next monthly payment to continue to block the internet from your personal use’”