Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites.Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material.
Dumb move Mr Conroy, very Dumb. I’d support the move if it didn’t break the ‘blancmange rule’ of filtering which states that one ‘cannot blacklist enough sites to make the internet safe for kiddies, cannot whitelist enough sites to make it interesting for learners‘. So I say back to square one for our new Minister of the InterTubes. By all means treat internet porn like the rest of the spam out there, filter it as much as you like, with age grading and silver bells on top for all I care. But wake up, and take responsibility for teaching our kids to negotiate this wonderful and dangerous world we live in. Maybe we could spend the money on something like, say, education - addressing the moral vacuum that exists between the ears of our young leaders of the future.
Fang - Mike Seyfang
By the way, Happy New Year (I’m sick and tired of this old one).
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Senator Conroy says the Government will work with the industry to ensure the filters do not affect the speed of the internet [File photo].
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Australia is going to be stupider in 2008 | www.nickhodge.com
// Dec 31, 2007 at 6:54 pm
[...] am with Uncle Mike. Educate, not Censor. Share the love: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]
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acidlabs » Dumb decision by our new government over ‘Net filtering
// Jan 1, 2008 at 6:50 am
[...] annoyed and disappointed along with Duncan Riley, Nick Hodge, Mike Seyfang, Gary Barber and Jasmin [...]
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Neotenous Tech » Blog Archive » Disagree and you are an anti-Australian pervert
// Jan 5, 2008 at 2:53 pm
[...] Mike Seyfang - http://tinyurl.com/2ajjcv [...]
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bl1nk » Blog Archive » More on the c3ns0rship deba[t|cl]e
// Jan 5, 2008 at 10:07 pm
[...] different approach though as it fits with my rat-bag image. So down with the ‘educate, not censor‘ mantra and start up a “Just tell the little bastards how to beat the filters” [...]
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Tech-Ed Collisions » on filtering
// Jan 18, 2008 at 8:57 am
[...] world off from them, but give them the skills they need to survive and thrive safely in that world. So it should be in the ‘online’ world. Fenced off societies do not seem to work - think of any that you [...]
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on filtering | Buy And Sell Domains
// Jan 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm
[...] world off from them, but give them the skills they need to survive and thrive safely in that world. So it should be in the ‘online’ world. Fenced off societies do not seem to work - think of any that you [...]
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