In a very similar and ignorant circumstances to that of the previous Liberal Government, Kevin Rudd is seeking to block all objectionable material before it can be downloaded by Australian Internet users. Many business and industry experts are declaring that this totalitarian type of censorship will not work, effect underlying ‘freedom of speech’ principles and cost consumers more in the long run along with bogging down the Internet.
It appears that Mr Rudd and Senator Conroy seriously need to slow down and rethink their entire so called ‘clean net’ plan prior to muzzling ISP’s with filtering software. What’s wrong with parents implementing content filtering at a PC level? AIIA spokeswoman ‘Sheryle Moon’ suggests that filtering should be implemented by parents at the PC level.
“This is like King Canute trying to hold back the tide” said Hostworks chief excutive Marty Gauvin. “It isn’t going to make a great deal of difference other than to make Australia a less desirable market to create digital content”
“It’s worth remebering that server-level filtering was trialled in Tasmania and was ultimately rejected” said iiNet’s Mr Malone. “There is no real way to do it accurately at a national level.”
“We think that filtering should occur at the PC level,” said Ms Moon. “It should be up to parents to make decisions about what their childeren can and cannot access.”
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