Aussie ISPs join anti-porn fight
p2pnet.net News:- Under new laws slated to take effect next Monday, Australian ISPs will have to report child pornography or child abuse material to the Australian Federal Police – or face fines of up to $A55,000 ($43,450).
"Internet Service Providers and Internet Content Hosts should be aware that come March 1, they will be obligated to join the federal government’s frontline fight against abuse of children online," justice minister Chris Ellison said in a statement quoted by Asia News.
"It can not be emphasised enough that behind every horrid piece of child pornography is a tragic case of an abused defenseless child, somewhere in the world," he said.
The legislation also makes it a federal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a person to use the internet to access, transmit or make available child pornography or child abuse material, adds the story.
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frontline fight – Australia forces Internet providers to join child porn crackdown, Asia News, February 23, 2005
February 23rd, 2005 at 11:12 pm
Shame on you. Trying to put a spin on the story to sound like ‘your ISP is watching you’. The amendment to the existing law is only that if someone informs the ISP of child porn being available on the internet the ISP is obliged to pass that information on to the authorities. That’s it.
credibility–;