[LINK] Weinstein: Conroy Bananas

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Roger forwards:

>            Woody Allen, Google, and Internet Censorship
>            http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000353.html
> 
> Greetings.  Yesterday I briefly discussed the government's inane
> plan in Australia for mandatory ISP blocking of material considered
> "inappropriate" for children ..
>
> Or perhaps Australia will simply choose to place the entire
> operations of Google on their default block list ..

Google is already blocked in all Victorian state schools, because porn
sites are available in their archives, bypassing individual url filters,
and hence Google has been blocked in Vic schools for six years or so.

No one says the gov must give access to porn to state-school children. As
for the wider community, personally I'd prefer that kiddie-porn websites
were at least given an equilivant of a 'shrink wrap' protection, because
that's the sort of society I would prefer to live in. And I believe that
many Australians agree. If this is so, the question is, how to do this?


> Lauren Weinstein
> lauren at vortex.com or lauren at pfir.org
> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
> http://www.pfir.org/lauren
> Co-Founder, PFIR
>     - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
> Co-Founder, NNSquad
>     - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
> Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
> Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
> Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
> _______________________________________________
> privacy mailing list
> http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy

Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia