[LINK] Free government pornography filter

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Sat Aug 25 17:06:52 AEST 2007


At 6:15 +0000 25/8/07, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Student cracks $84m porn filter
>By Nick Higginbottom and Ben Packham,  August 25, 2007 12:30am
><http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22304224-421,00.html>


Which of the following would you be prepared to vote for:


>Family First Senator Steve Fielding:
>  ...  a long-time campaigner for cyber
>safety, said cracking the software showed the need for compulsory
>filtering by Internet providers.
>"You need both. You need it at the ISP and at the PC level," Senator
>Fielding said.
>"The Government has not listened to common sense and it leaves kids
>exposed."   [common sense in what sense???]


Labor:
[Can't quickly find it, but they've said some dumb, populist things 
about ISP-filtering.]


Minister Helen Coonan:
[Under pressure from the dumb right, but holding off their *really* 
dumb proposals for ISP-level filtering by wasting what to a 
government is a fairly small amount of money on a parental-choice 
implementation at workstation or home-network level.
[And repeating ad nauseum the very reasonable statement that:
>"Unfortunately, no single measure can protect children from online harm
>and ... traditional parenting skills have never been more important."


Tom Wood, 16:
>"Cyber bullying, educating children on how to protect themselves and their
>privacy are the first problems I'd fix.


-- 
Roger Clarke                  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/

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