Tasmanian porn filtering
p2p news / p2pnet: Australia’s biggest ISP won’t be taking
part in a Tasmanian trial of network wide porn
filtering.
“We fundamentally believe that the protection achieved through PC-based filtering is much more effective than any network-based approach,” Telstra operations manager Denis Mullane told a Senate estimates committee, says
Australia.
Telstra argues, “individual customers should use their own filtering solutions on their computers because network based filters require too much processing power and may cause drops in speed. “Our concern is it would lead to a false sense of security for our customers,” he said.
“We are not persuaded it has sufficient merit.”
Currently, Telstra only filters content at a network level when asked to do so by the Australian communications watchdog.
The government backed trial will begin sometime
after July and the filtering technology can apparently distingush
between health and anatomy related infomation and pornography, provided
it is “white listed” by parents.
Also See:
Australia – Telstra defends stance on Net porn trial – May
22, 2006
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May 22nd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
If I lived in Australia I’d be pretty pissed if the government impossed web filtering at an isp level and I was not able to opt out of the filtering…Welcome to Aus, the new China…So is this mandatory for all citizens or just those that want it?
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:28 am
I think the suggestion has been that individuals can opt out of the scheme by submitting in writing a request to their ISP… imagine twenty years later you run for politics and your opposition pulls out the written request that you wanted to access porn – massive privacy issues… regardless of this it is still a ridiculous idea and nothing but a vote capturing move, not really being a fan of the government I hate to say it but they are at the moment the most skeptical about it. The opposition is pushing it through on the basis that the governmemnt doesnt care about Australian families…. its nothing but political BS to appeal to the lowest common denomenator
looks like I’ll be voting Greens at the next election.
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:49 pm
No, it’s pretty obvious that you’d have to opt <i>in</i>. The question is whether ISPs should have to provide optional filtering to customers at a network level.
May 24th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Is reasonably easy for entire domains (say the .xxx domain for example), but filtering actual content is a big, big job.
May 24th, 2006 at 7:56 am
The only way I can think of at this moment is by using proxy outside Oz. Which will have pay for if want to use good one.