[LINK] Green light for internet filter plans
Kimberley Heitman
kheitman at kheitman.com
Thu Dec 17 12:40:38 AEDT 2009
>Rick Welykochy wrote:
><snip>
>> If the filtering legislation is passed, is there then an implied duty of
>care
>> by the maintainers of the black list and the filter itself to the public,
>and
>> more specifically to children? And if so, what recourse do parents have
>when
>> this duty of care is breached?
>>
><snip>
>
>That is one question, the other is
>whether the police will be able to
>prosecute someone for handling illegal
>material, which wasn't filtered out.
>
>Marghanita
The log of users served with the "this page is blocked" page would be a
honeypot of data - apart from being a list of ~perverts~ for any sort of
blackmail or other misuse, it would also be admissible evidence identifying
people who have attempted to access RC material in contravention of State
and Federal law.
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Kimberley James Heitman
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