p2pnet.net News:- Family First, a new Australian political party, is calling for Australians to pay for a massive online censorship scheme.

It wants Net internet users to fund a compulsory $A45 (about $32,467,300) million filtering project aimed at blocking online porn and “offensive content” at server level.

Closely linked with the Pentecostal Assemblies of God movement, “the party warns that children exposed to online pornography” could exhibit “disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour,” says a NEWS.com.au report.

It says Family First has a state seat in South Australia and, “is considered a strong candidate for a Senate spot after concluding preference deals with all the major parties except the Greens”.

In August, John Lewis, lead senate candidate for Queensland, said:

“It is a national travesty that is so easily fixed if the Government and the opposition would exercise their moral will and pass legislation that requires Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to provide a compulsory filtering of pornography on the Internet.

“We are seriously concerned and feel that is high time that an aggressive approach is taken in curbing this easy access our children have to Internet pornography,” he said. “Adults can elect to opt out, but we are putting ISP’s on notice that greater diligence is required.”

The party locked in a deal with John Howard last week to direct preferences to the Coalition in most lower house seats, adds NEWS.com.au.

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See:-

filtering – Family First seeks net gag, NEWS.com.au, September 28, 2004

national travesty – Internet Pornography Readily Available To Australian Children, August 25, 2004

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