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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

> 10 August 2007
> Libraries' commitment to internet safety already evident
> 
> [ pdf 396KB ]
> 
> The Australian Library and Information Association has rejected the description of public library filtering efforts as an "abject failure" made by The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, the Hon Helen Coonan this morning in her announcement regarding new moves to enforce internet filtering through the 'NetAlert - Protecting Australian Families Online' program.
<http://alia.org.au/media.room/2007.08.10.html>

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I had to deal with one of these religious families a while back.
> 
> They decided that they would apply very strict controls on their kid's 
> web browser and would allow only material that was certified (PICS ??) 
> to be viewed, and they then wondered why nothing was getting through.
> 
> I don't think much material of any type is rated...
> 
> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> 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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Marghanita da Cruz
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