[LINK] Onus on providers to clean up web content

[Irene Graham]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:35:18 +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:

> On 31/12/2007, at 6:29 PM, Brendan Scott wrote:
>
>> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>>> Onus on providers to clean up web content
>>>
>> []
>>
>>> A report by the Australia Institute in 2003 showed 84 per cent of
>>> boys
>>> and 60 per cent of girls using the internet had experienced
>>> unwanted exposure to sexual material.
>>>
>>
>> Why would this figure be gender dependent?
>>
> The key word here is 'unwanted' perhaps, which might explain it...

Probably given the 'boys' and 'girls' surveyed by Newspoll for the 
Australia Institute were aged 16-17 years and the question asked was "When 
using the Internet yourself, have you ever seen sex sites accidentally or 
when you didn't mean to?"

More info about the AI's report and associated campaign for mandatory ISP 
filterining, which commenced in March 2003 is at:

http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/ispblocking.html

Irene