[LINK] Sydney Seminar: Do we simply accept the Australian Internet filtering scheme or do we need to ask hard questions?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

4pm, 3 April 2009

Do we simply accept the Australian Internet filtering scheme or do we need to 
ask hard questions?

The Australian government is currently planning to introduce mandatory Internet
content filtering. The move would clearly set Australia aside from all other
democratic nations in the world. The initial purpose of this scheme was to
protect Australian children from accessing unsuitable material such as child
pornography.
...
In this talk, Professor Landfeldt will detail some of the major difficulties 
associated with ISP level content filtering, some of the possible side effects 
and discuss why such filtering may not be effective. He will also give examples 
of the many difficult moral questions such filtering inevitably raises and 
demonstrate the need for a comprehensive public debate an the issue before 
legislation and implementation takes place.
<http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/93.html?eventid=3908>
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Marghanita da Cruz
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: (+61)0414 869202