[LINK] Onus on providers to clean up web content

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:25 PM 31/12/2007, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>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.

define sexual. Is this the same survey that asked people if they had 
been contacted by a stranger? Probably.

so what? That happened to me today [the explicit sexual activity 
type]. It was very explicit. There was no indication what was behind 
the link because it was from a member posted link that just said 
'web' on a forum. Some members labeled that their interest was porn 
[it was a free speech/privacy anonymisation service]. Many had dead links.

As many of us said in the days of Senator Dick, the best way to deal 
with this is as Dale said in his reply: parents should prepare and 
teach their children. The government filter will NOT stop this stuff, 
no matter how hard they try.

>Australians who want uncensored access to the web will have to 
>contact their internet service provider and "opt out" of the service.

So who do I write to to take out the filter? I'm with Internode. I'll 
look at their website, but if anyone knows, please advise. I know we 
have many linkers who use Internode.

Thanks,
Jan


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