[LINK] It's baaack---net filtering

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:21 +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> It is wrong to assume that net filtering systems can be maintained
>> in a secure manner by parents.
> 
> "Kids interpret censorship as failure and route around it" :-)
> 
.....
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.

The Prime Minister unveiled his new net commandments last night on a webcast to
more than 700 churches and thousands of churchgoers around the country.......

<http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,22218715-5013040,00.html?from=public_rss>
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