Australian Govt push for mandatory internet filtering

[Corey]

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 24/11/2008

Reporter: Adrian Raschella

The Rudd Government is battling to implement its promise to make the internet more family friendly. The push for mandatory filtering of the internet is motivated by a quest to block child pornography, but the internet industry argues that the move will slow the internet service to a crawl.

Transcript of the segment The 7.30 Report - ABC http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2428304.htm

Cheers
Corey

 

[Rudy]

Interesting. I'm not quite sure what I would say to the speed of the internet though. It seems to me if they did it right, the speed wouldn't be affected at all. Like one of the people on this article said, it's going to get all of it.

IMHO, getting rid of some is better than not getting rid of any. Child Porn is just sick. Ok, let me rephrase that. IMHO, porn in general isn't a cool thing.

The only places that have mandatory filtering at the moment are Saudi Arabia and China.

That's a joke. Go to Pakistan and other West Asian / Middle Eastern countries! There's a lot of censoring that goes on that people don't know about.

 

[Kate]

How nice. Big Brother stepping in to the rescue once again to offer 'protection' you've never asked for. Govt always uses the excuse of child pornography or terrorism to promote their own agenda. Govt should take the battle elsewhere, and not decide what you should read or see.

 

[James]

How nice. Big Brother stepping in to the rescue once again to offer 'protection' you've never asked for. Govt always uses the excuse of child pornography or terrorism to promote their own agenda. Govt should take the battle elsewhere, and not decide what you should read or see.

Agreed.


Block child pornography?
Why not spend that $44.7Million dollars on getting some more swat teams together and raiding their houses, if you can find the content, you can easily look up logs, I've seen how ISP's can pull up when an IP has viewed a certain site. They're going to ruin the internet for the majority of Australians who use it properly. I know that federal companies are employed to find the content and block it, why not hire more of them?
John Howard tested this and they come to the conclusion that it's a shit idea, why go through with it when the filters are inaccurate and you can't stop P2P or FTP servers.

I'm all against child pornography but this is the wrong way to go about it.

 

[Dean]

If they can block child pornography efficiently and effectively then thats great and they should, but this method is neither efficient nor effective. It will make the already slow and expensive internet we have more slow and more expensive. Rudd promised he would upgrade internet infrastructure and speed up internet and now he is doing the opposite. Secondly, this wont even be effective in blocking child pornography, I am sure people will find ways to bypass the filter very quickly. At the end of the day this will just slow out internet and censor legal online activities and it sets a very dangerous precedent.