[LINK] Onus on providers to clean up web content
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Mon Dec 31 17:58:40 AEDT 2007
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
Jan Whitaker
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