[LINK] Who's Afraid of the Net article

[Jan Whitaker]

Written by Peter John Chen, formerly of 
Melbourne, currently of Alberta Canada, but soon to be of Sydney again:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/peter-john-chen/2008/01/02/1198949896978.html

Who's afraid of the net?
Peter John Chen
January 3, 2008

IT'S AN idea that just won't die: if the 
government makes your internet provider run 
special software, all the bad things (and people) 
of cyberspace won't bother you. This is the view 
being touted by the new Minister for Information 
Technology, Senator Stephen Conroy, who is 
proposing that internet service providers should 
be required to filter Australians' internet 
connections against a list maintained by the 
Australian Communications and Media Authority.

While users will have the ability to "opt out", 
it is being promoted because previous attempts to 
encourage the use of filtering software have been 
ineffective ­ notwithstanding the Howard 
government's NetAlert advertising campaign last year.

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Jan Whitaker
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